Category: creativity
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Podcast207: An Inspirational Message from Songwriter, Musician and Educator Monte Selby
This podcast features a recording of songwriter and educator Monte Selby’s keynote at the Oklahoma Alternative Education Student Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 7, 2007. Monte is an amazingly talented guitarist, songwriter, and singer. As a former teacher, middle school principal, and college professor, Monte shares unique perspectives on creativity, artistic expression, learning, and…
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Podcast206: Inventing The Future: Safely Empowering Learners in the Read/Write Society (ODLA 2007)
This podcast features a recording of my keynote address at the 2007 Oklahoma Distance Learning Association (ODLA) conference in Tulsa on November 5, 2007. Although this presentation shares the same title as one I shared at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai in September, the content of this session is entirely different. The description of…
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Astronaut courage and NASA ingenuity shown again
Think the ability to think fast and solve problems with the materials on hand was just something NASA astronauts and design engineers needed back in the early days of the U.S. space program in the 1960s and 1970s? Think again. According to Wednesday’s CNN article, “Discovery lands after challenging mission:” Even before the mission began…
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iMovie HD: Initial Impressions
I upgraded my iLife applications to iLife ’08 several weeks ago, but until this week hadn’t had an opportunity to work with iMovie HD (the new version of iMovie included in iLife ’08) with much depth. This past Thursday night, I taught a workshop for teachers in Mid-Del Schools on using both Garageband ’08 and…
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Marketing in the Attention Economy
Earlier this fall I shared a three part podcast series about the “attention economy” and its implications for schools. These were titled Podcast174: Relevance in the Attention Economy Part 1: Key Ideas, Podcast187: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 2 of 3), and Podcast190: Implications of the Attention Economy for Schools (Part 3…
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Podcast201: So The World Is Flat. Now What?
This podcast is a recording of my keynote address at the TechForum Southwest conference sponsored by Technology and Learning on November 2, 2007. Schools need to change to better prepare students for the dynamic challenges and opportunities of the 21st century “flat world” highlighted by Tom Friedman in his book “The World is Flat.” The…
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ODLA Keynote Monday – Live and Recorded
I’m sharing the keynote address Monday morning in Tulsa at the Oklahoma Distance Learning Association’s annual conference. The theme of the conference is “Web 2.0 in Education,” and the title of my keynote is “Inventing the Future: Safely Empowering Learners In the Read/Write Society.” This is a completely different rewrite of the session I shared…
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Ustream.tv tomorrow?
The slides for my TechForum Southwest keynote tomorrow, “So the World is Flat. Now What?” are available as a PDF file (16.7 MB). With encouragement this evening from Miguel Guhlin and David Jakes, I’m going to attempt a live Ustream.tv broadcast of the keynote tomorrow. Haven’t tried this, haven’t tested this, but we’ll give it…
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50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story
If the information landscape has seasons, this should definitely be considered spring in the sense that SO MUCH is growing and proliferating. The 2007 K-12 Online Conference starts its first regular week on Monday, and it is going to be AMAZING. As a co-convener, I’ve been able to preview several of the presentations. Wow am…