Category: creativity
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Beautiful sunrise this morning
The sunrise over the Oklahoma plains this morning was breathtaking! I’ve been seeing the sun rise a lot this week, commuting to Enid from Edmond! 🙂 Tomorrow’s my last day of facilitator training in Enid with our 2nd group of teachers for the Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project. Boy is this ever a fun group! Mike…
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Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge
A blog post from Marina Cantacuzino brought The Forgiveness Project to my attention today for the first time, and permitted me to hear the thoughts of people like Desmond Tutu and others who have both been touched by unimaginable hatred and freed from a destructive cycle of bitterness through forgiveness and grace. The following paragraph…
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MIDI keyboard advice?
Ever since I became awed with the power and flexibility of Gargeband software listening and learning from Marco Torres at our ADE academy in July 2005, I’ve wanted to purchase my own MIDI controller keyboard to take the program and my quite limited musical creativity to another level. Last October I had a chance to…
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Creativity and disaster response
I heard the following statement recently in a conversation about disaster planning and recovery: Failure in disaster planning almost always results from a lack of imagination. I found that statement to be particularly thought provoking. Too often we assume that top-down, technocratic / centralized-planning style leadership is the only thing that can “save us” when…
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Confronting the Wicked Problems of Teaching with Technology
These are my notes from the keynote presentation by Matthew J. Koehler and Punya Mishra at SITE 2007. More on their wiki: http://tpck.pbwiki.com/ Our solution is TPCK: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge What is the big fuss about teaching and technology? – tech is here to stay, and teachers need to deal with it – tech…
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Strange iPod game sync issue
Ever since MacWorld in Jan07 when I was able to give some of the commercial games for the 5th Generation iPod Video a spin, I’ve been wanting to purchase at least one. (Vortex is the main one I played and was impressed with.) This evening I finally made 2 purchases (for a grand total of…
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Every school needs a media design studio
Does your school have a media production design studio? If not, why not? In the likely case your school does NOT have a media production studio, the reason for its absence may lie in the basic nature of educational institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since their inception in response to the industrial revolution,…
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Life in perspective, breakthrough creativity
I listened to two NPR podcasts driving into work that really framed my thinking for the morning in powerful ways. The first was an NPR “This I Believe” podcast titled “I believe that my husband will call me tomorrow” by Becky Herz. For people who don’t have loved ones serving overseas in the military, podcasts…
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Interviews with Christopher Paolini
When looking for the publication date of Christopher Paolini’s third book in his Inheritance series (to follow “Eragon” and “Eldest” – it doesn’t appear the date has been announced yet) my son and I discovered this 10 minute interview with Paolini from “Bill Thompson’s Eye On Books” series today. This was included as an external…
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Now how am I going to get bored?
I think it is getting increasingly difficult to get bored if you’re “connected” to the web in the 21st century. If you are connected to the Internet and are online, it may indeed be impossible to get bored. There is value in boredom, because creative thought often takes flight when the mind is idle or…