Category: creativity
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Podcast184: Online Digital Storytelling Curriculum from Independent Student Media
ISM (Independent Student Media) is now offering an innovative online film curriculum focused on bringing the expertise of Hollywood professionals into the classroom to assist students in the process and procedures of digital storytelling. The curriculum is geared toward secondary students, and is software-independent: It is focused on the process of filmmaking rather than the…
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Relying on technologies and attitudes toward creativity
We had a great conveners meeting for the K-12 Online Conference early this morning, and I was struck by how much I am starting to take newer communication technologies like Skype for granted. We were going to meet on Thursday morning this past week, but an authentication issue actually made the entire Skype network unavailable…
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Future world and local leaders at play
I just love this sign! We saw this today when we drove by our local Campfire camp in Oklahoma City: Camp Dakani. The need for young people to spend unstructured time in natural environments to develop self-confidence and capacities for independent decision-making skills is a key theme in Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the…
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Want to improve learning and memory? Try getting more SLEEP!
The interactive website for the NOVA ScienceNOW special “The Sleep-Memory Connection” provides an opportunity to explore both the stages of sleep as well as intriguing connections scientists are exploring between sleep and memory. According to the website: Psychologists have long suspected that sleep– both before and after learning something new– aids the development of memories.…
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Update on “Invent the Future” After School Club / Scratch Programming
I was able to visit with our school principal today, as well as one of our PTO presidents, about the idea of having an “every other week” after-school computer club, most likely for just 4th and 5th graders. (I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago in the post “Digital Playground of Dreams.” Our…
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Promote visual literacy and extend learning with a photo contest
For teachers in the northern hemisphere starting or getting ready to start school for the fall 2007 term (or others already in school) a digital photography contest could be a great challenge to share with students as they return to classes. The Adobe Digital Kids Club along with Technology and Learning are sponsoring the 2007…
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reCAPTCHA, OCR, and the work of blog commenters
I listened to the June NPR Technology report “Turning Verification Codes into Books?” several weeks ago, but not until this evening when I was visiting Bob Sprankle’s Bit by Bit blog did I become a willing worker in the creative reCAPTCHA project. This ingenious project is using the captcha word entries bloggers enter when commenting…
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Great day with Oklahoma A+ Schools
I had a GREAT day today at the Oklahoma A+ Schools annual conference. I’ll be posting a new photo set to Flickr tomorrow with images of the conference. Of all the educational organizations in Oklahoma I have encountered to date, A+ “gets it” more than any others in terms of the pedagogical reforms we need…
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1st Scratch Lesson with Alexander
Alexander (my 9 year old) gave me my first lesson on how to program in Scratch today – WOW! I am so amazed. Our first lesson lasted 45 minutes long. Alexander is the “expert” on Scratch in our house because he’s spent a total of 4-5 hours playing with the program so far. I had…