Category: creativity
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Does your organization embrace innovation and creativity, or seek to shoot change agents?
The NASA/JPL-inspired video “Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion” provides an excellent contextual opportunity to discuss big issues which plague many organizations and bureaucracies: Are middle and upper level managers stifling creativity and “shooting the messenger” who seeks to be a catalyst for new ideas and innovative approaches, or do these individuals embrace and support the…
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Film on the Fly: Get your Cell Phones Ready for Movie Making!
Thanks to Orange County, California, educator Dennis Grice, I learned last night and today at ITSC 2009 about the “Film on the Fly” digital storytelling contest: A “Mobile Phone Video Challenge.” Karen Mongomery had mentioned this to me awhile back but I had not seen any of the videos submitted to the contest until today.…
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Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Transforming our Schools (ITSC 2009)
These are my notes from Sir Ken Robinson’s opening keynote address at the 2009 ITSC (Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference) on February 15, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I ACTUALLY MET SIR KEN AT THE REGISTRATION TABLE A BIT EARLIER AND HE SIGNED MY COPY OF HIS NEW BOOK…
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Creativity, Interruptions, Boundaries and Leadership
“The key to getting in a creative state is to avoid interruptions.” So says John Clese in this wonderful, ten minute video from the recent World Creativity Forum in Belgium. My own experiences also validate this statement. My wife heard this excerpt of the video tonight as I was playing it on my laptop and…
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Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train
This podcast is a bit of an ecclectic mix of ideas, song snippets, and educational project ideas. Foundationally, these relate to the idea that we’re going to have an enduring need to help younger students as well as older learners use digital tools in powerful, appropriate, and constructive ways. Whether we use the words citizen…
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A Creative Designer’s Solicitation for Employment via StopMotion
Judson Collier, a “16 year old high schooler from Florida [and] Advocate of Blogging and Social Media” (according to his Flickr profile) created a very creative, funny, and effective three minute video on Vimeo titled “Stop-Motion App-uh-lu-cat-ion” to market both his own graphic design skills as well as the website CrowdSpring: Stop-Motion App-uh-lu-cat-ion from Judson…
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Contrasting recent Oklahoma City and Winnipeg morning radio coverage about education
I had a moment of significant cognitive dissonance this morning driving in to work, listening to the radio. photo credit: rakkasan69 This past Friday morning, for THREE HOURS, I was a minor guest on the Winnipeg, Manitoba radio station CJOB with Darren Kuropatwa, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Dean Shareski, and Darren’s former student Mark Rabena. The complete…
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Breadboards, LED lights, small screens, and programming homegrown, inexpensive computers
Landon Brockhert is a computer science student at the University of Central Oklahoma, and is the part-time paid computer/AV guru for our church in Edmond. Landon is the reliable guy behind the scenes who makes sure the SmartBoard is setup each Sunday morning when I teach 5th graders, and setup the SmartBoard each day this…
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Mr. T is not familiar with connectivism
In this rather amusing advertisement for Hitachi, Mr. T claims “intelligence is never in the network.” Apparently Mr. T has not been introduced to the concepts of connectivism. 🙂 Even though this video script for the the actor formerly known as Laurence Tureaud may not reflect a basic understanding of connectivist learning theory, I do…
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Darfur Issues highlighted via a student-created Southpark style video
I learned about the following student-created Southpark parody video today entitled “Genocide: Lost in Translation” from Joyce Valenza. This is a great example of a transformative, creative work which arguably meets US fair use copyright provisions because of its transformative nature. Take a few minutes to watch the video, it is just 3 minutes long.…