Category: creativity
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Geography 2.0: A Juicy Way to Mash Up Learning
WikiMapia is a “wiki meets Google Maps” mash-up intended to be used as a digital geographic encyclopedia reference tool. In its current incarnation, WikiMapia is a little rough around the edges, but keep this site on your list of potential teaching tools. Here’s how WikiMapia works: Key landmarks, such as Rainbow Arch in Utah, the…
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Helping young people prepare for IT related careers
I’ve been sorting, digitizing, filing and discarding handouts and brochures from conference events I’ve collected the past few months, and ran across a “Talking Points” handout from the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) titled, “Why should young women consider a career in Information Technology?” The handout itself is available as a printable…
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Multiple Intelligences
These are my text notes from Amelia May and Paige Mayhew’s presentation “Multiple Intelligences” at the 1 August 2008 Oklahoma A+ Schools conference. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Howard Gardner spoke at the AP conference recently – AP is pushing a collegiate model, Howard apparently ticked a lot of people with AP off with…
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Notes from A Plus Schools Conference Opening Session
These are my notes from Dr. John Feaver’s opening remarks at the Oklahoma A+ Schools Conference on August 1, 2008: Getting to the Heart of Creativity. Dr. Feaver is the President of the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, and the chairman of the education committee of The Oklahoma Creativity Project. I recorded this…
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Podcast267: A Discussion about Lego WeDo Robotics at NECC 2008 (Coming in January 2009 to North America)
This podcast is an interview with Lars of Lego Education on the vendor floor at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, discussing the recently announced “WeDo Robotics” product designed for elementary students ages 7-11. According to the official Lego Education press release, WeDo Robotics “redefines classroom robotics, making it possible for primary school students 7-11…
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First experiences with web-based digital story editing: JumpCut!
Update on 29 July 2016: Viddler (@viddler) is referenced in this post from 8 years ago and has shifted its business model/focus in a different direction. Today was day 2 of our July Celebrate Oklahoma Voices workshop for educators, and this afternoon’s agenda involved three hours of (almost) uninterrupted work time for teachers, administrators, and librarians…
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Podcast266: Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture by David Thornburg (NECC 2008)
This podcast features a recording of David Thornburg’s NECC 2008 presentation “Open Minds, Open Education, and a View of Open Culture.” The official conference program description and purpose / objectives for this session were: This talk explores how open education and culture are supported by 1:1 computing facilitated with open source tools, worldwide. True universal…
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A free online musical – But watch out – No ratings here…
Warning: This is an Internet-released film and as such does not have a “rating.” As Miguel Guhlin points out in his comment, the sexual reference for “the hammer” is both surprising and out-of-place to an extent– It certainly earns this film a “not appropriate for young kids” rating, I think. Full disclosure: I had watched just Act…
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Podcast265: Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web
This podcast is a recording of a session I shared on July 9, 2008, at the Missouri Distance Learning Association’s Annual Conference in Osage Beach, Missouri, titled “Digital Learning Objects on the Open Web.” The ideas shared in this session were strongly influenced by Karen Fasimpaur’s February 2008 presentation at NCCE titled “Free Content +…