Category: creativity
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Star Wars humor
Oh my gosh. These are hilarious. If you are not a big Star Wars fan and didn’t grow up on the series, you might not think so… but I do! 🙂
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Online music collaboration tools
I just love articles that include phrases like, “The only limit is the teacher’s imagination!” According to last week’s eSchool News article, “Music education moves online: Web 2.0 technologies, broadband access fuel extension of music education beyond:” Using eJamming Studio 1.5, musicians can plug their MIDI-enabled digital instruments–keyboards, guitars, bass guitars, drum kits, and wind…
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Flow, curiosity, and engaging education
I am continuing to read “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and am seeing lots of connections for educators and learners. At the outset of chapter 4, Csikszentmihalyi summarizes the “common characteristics of optimal experience” or flow: …a sense that one’s skills are adequate to cope with the challenges at hand, in…
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Thinking about new schools
In his article (linked on the Creativity Exchange) “Beyond Schools: A New Foundation for Education in the 21st Century” (PDF) Gary L. Thompson addresses several key questions and issues about reinventing education for our new millenium: If the World is Flat, then how do we Flatten Education? Education as [a] Pipeline Rather Than [a] Linear…
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Podcast99: Teaching Beyond the Textbook
This podcast is a skype recording from yesterday’s presentation (on November 10) at the 2006 Hawaii Library Association titled, “Creativity and Updating Mindware: Hardware and software are not holding us back!” During the session Jen Wagner (from southern California) and Graham Wegner (from Adelaide, South Australia) skyped in to share their ideas about teaching beyond…
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Podcast94: Digital Music Creation: Engage, Inspire, Have Fun!
Digital natives typically love music, and once they have learned how many LOVE to create their own music. In this session, we’ll explore tools like Garageband (for Macintosh users) and Fruity Loops (For Windows users) which permit student authoring of original music compositions: No prior musical background required! We’ll explore how students can legally obtain…
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Podcast93: Creative Software Tools and Ideas from Tech4Learning
Tech4Learning sells a variety of creativity-empowering software programs which can enable students to tell stories and communicate in compelling ways with multimedia. In this presentation, Angela Allen discusses how ImageBlender, MediaBlender, WebBlender, Twist, Pixie and Frames can be used for digital storytelling, website creation, and stop-motion animation film creation. What fun! Have fun in school…
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Digital music fun
I’m sharing three presentations on Saturday in Plano, Texas, at the TCEA Region 10/11 Area Technology Conference. One that I’ll be sharing for the first time is titled “Digital Music Creation: Engage, Inspire, Have Fun!” The session description is: Digital natives typically love music, and once they have learned how many LOVE to create their…
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Bubblr and Comic Creativity
I love the Macintosh application Comic Life, because it offers a powerful invitation to creativity with photos. This evening I discovered Bubblr, which offers a similar invitation but one that is web-based and Flickr-powered. Here is my first creation: Nothing real earth shattering here, just a few ideas about television and marketing as we move…
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Invite Nobel Prize winners to your classroom
The October 6, 2006 Science Friday podcast featured interviews with two of the most recent (2006) Nobel Prize winners in science. Winners interviewed included: Astrophysicists George Smoot and John Mather, the 2006 Nobel Laureates in Physics David Bushnell of the Stanford University School of Medicine Andrew Fire, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology…