Category: creativity
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Podcast117: Engaging Brains with Games and Simulations
This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Dr. Bernie Dodge at MacWorld 2007 at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium produced by California’s Computer Using Educators Inc. His topic was Engaging Brains with Games and Simulations. The theme of using games to engage students in learning is common to many educational technology conferences, but…
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Podcast115: The Accessible Mac: Yesterday and Today
This podcast is a recording of Alan Brightman’s presentation at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium at MacWorld 2007 on January 10, 2007. The title of his presentation was The Accessible Mac: Yesterday and Today. Alan is the Senior Policy Director for Special Communities at Yahoo! where he is responsible for ensuring that Yahoo! is as…
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Apply to be a 2007 Apple Distinguished Educator
If you are an innovative teacher using Apple Macintosh computer technology with students in K-12 or university classrooms, please consider applying to be an Apple Distinguished Educator in the Class of 2007. This year applications for the ADE program are being solicited online, in an application and selection process that is more open than it…
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Podcast109: Reflections on Cultivating Creativity
This podcast is a recording of an after-dinner discussion with Julie Duffield, Chris Walsh and I on January 9, 2007. Our conversation focused on ways to cultivate creativity in ourselves, with our children, and with others with whom we work. Show notes for this podcast include: Epoch Learning: Start Something BIG: Chris Walsh’s blog Subscribe…
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A Q&A on Culture, Filmmaking, Storytelling and Cool Tools
My notes from a MacWorld 2007 preso by Kevin Smith 1-9-2007 MY INITIAL THOUGHTS: Kevin used quite a bit of profanity in his Q&A. I am not including any of that in this post of course, but as a warning you will encounter some if you visit his blog or probably if you hear him…
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Say YES to creativity in 2007
Inspired by David Thornburg (something not difficult to experience if you read his work or hear him in person) I posted some thoughts to the ITM today I titled, “Say YES to creativity in 2007.” I really like the sheep/shepherd metaphor for education. Perhaps I could have used a better picture of shepherds, but that…
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Discover the final Harry Potter book title
CNN provides directions for a fun way Harry Potter fans can discover the recently released title of J.K. Rowling’s final book in the series: If you go to her (J.K. Rowling’s) home page, click on the eraser and you will be taken to a room — you’ll see a window, a door and a mirror.…
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More on Bloom’s and student creativity
I posted some new thoughts over on the TechLearning blog (“Valuing student creativity”) that extend some of the ideas I shared here yesterday related to the 2001 revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy by Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl. Technorati Tags: bloomstaxonomy, creativity, education, schoolreform
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Podcast104: Ideas for Classroom Podcasting
This podcast features ideas generated by teachers in Edmond Public Schools (Oklahoma) and Rockwall ISD (Texas) about using podcasting with students in the classroom. We created this podcast together during a workshop conducted over a videoconference on December 8, 2006. This podcast was created entirely in Audacity running in WindowsXP through Parallels on a MacBook…
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Professional collaborative wiki writing
NPR carried an interesting piece on November 28th titled “Using the Wiki Method to Write a Business Book.” I heard this earlier in the week as I listened to the NPR Technology Podcast, which is a great collection (about 20 minutes of audio per episode) of technology stories from different programs in the past week.…