Category: creativity
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Let’s work together, shall we?!
I love this new Creative Commons film about working together! I also love the website where I found it: dotSUB, an all-volunteer effort to encourage multi-language closed captioning of video content. Give the video a try: It is currently 100% available in 12 languages, and the German version is about one-third complete. Click the arrows…
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Podcast172: A 9 Year Old Discusses Programming in Scratch (Initial Impressions)
This podcast features a recording of 9 year old Alexander Fryer, discussing his formative impressions after using the software programming environment “Scratch” to create some basic animations. According to the official Scratch website: Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art —…
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Graphic design fun
It’s not often I take time to play with a graphic design– I’m not a graphic designer by trade… I’ve taught a few Adobe PhotoShop workshops and love dabbling with PhotoShop, but I’m certainly not an expert or “artiste” when it comes to making graphics. The banner image of my blog is an important element…
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Podcast169: A Conversation with Marco Torres about Light Saber Special Effect Techniques, Digital Technologies in the Hands of Eager Learners, and Worthwhile Teacher Professional Development
This podcast is a recording of a conversation I had with Marco Torres at NECC 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The initial question we started with focused on how to make “light saber effects” in a movie, but our conversation continued and focused on other uses for Final Cut Studio Pro software, ways for helping students…
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I can hum, so I can find a mystery song
Wow. I am blown away. In a response to yesterday’s post “Challenging Internet search tasks,” Kern Kelley shared a link to Midomi.com. The website describes the service the following way: Search with your Voice: Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone. Sounds too good to…
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Way Beyond Webquests by Gary Stager
I ARRIVED AT GARY STAGER’S “WAY BEYOND WEBQUESTS” SESSION LATE AT NECC 2007, THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM HIS SESSION. GARY IS AN ENERGIZING THINKER AND ALWAYS CHALLENGES ME TO THINK ABOUT LEARNING AS WELL AS TECHNOLOGY IN DIFFERENT WAYS. THIS SESSION WAS NO EXCEPTION TO THIS PATTERN. 🙂 MIT is giving away courseware because…
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What do the arts, brain research, and creativity have to do with the emerging face of education? EVERYTHING!
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE NECC KEYNOTE PANEL PRESENTATION ON TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007, FACILITATED BY ANDREW ZOLLI. MY COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I AM LIVE BLOGGING THIS, SO CLICK “REFRESH” EVERY 10 MINUTES OR SO FOR UPDATES. WHEN THE SESSION IS OVER I’LL WRITE “END OF NOTES” IN THE BLOG…
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Reinventing PBL
I am a strong supporter of project-based learning and problem-based learning in educational contexts. On Monday before my flight to California, I was interviewed on the phone by Suzie Boss, Executive Editor of The Learning Innovation and Technology Consortium. The sidebar quotation of the LITC is one of my favorites from Margaret Mead: Never doubt…
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Audio Production, Music Composition and MIDI Across the Curriculum and the Globe
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM KEN JOHNSON’S (EDUCATION DIRECTOR FOR M-AUDIO) PRESENTATION AT EDUCOMM 07. I GOT TO THIS PRESO LATE, SO THESE NOTES ARE INCOMPLETE. I AM NOT MAKING AN AUDIO RECORDING, BUT A STREAMING VIDEO VERSION SHOULD BE AVAILABLE LATER FROM THE EDUCOMM WEBSITE. Reasons for audio interfaces – we are getting more…
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Podcast160: Alan Kay’s EduComm 2007 Keynote
This podcast is a recording of Alan Kay’s wonderful keynote presentation on June 19, 2007, at the EduComm 2007 conference in Anaheim, California. Alan is an amazing thinker, inventor, teacher and innovator. His presentation, shared in Squeak, a programming language he invented, powerfully demonstrated how many adults around the world need to elevate their expectations…