Category: creativity
-
Afternoon with George Winston
I had the delightful privilege yesterday afternoon to experience the wonderful music of George Winston at a benefit concert he gave for the Texas Tech School of Music. George played for over two hours in all, mostly piano solos but also some acoustic guitar and harmonica. The first thing I was struck by is how…
-
Steve Jobs and photo remixing
Behold the amazing results when creative people with time on their hands are challenged to have fun! 🙂 Thanks to Kathy for her link! This is probably my favorite!
-
Review of “A Whole New Mind”
Josh Thomas’s 12 minute podcast review of Dan Pink’s book “A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age” is well worth listening to. If you are a teacher, administrator, parent, or otherwise involved or concerned about education, you should read this book. I agree with Josh’s comment that “if you…
-
PowerPoint Jeopardy
Patrick Dierschke, when he was working for ESC Region XV in San Angelo, Texas, shared some super PowerPoint Jeopardy templates that are still available online. These PowerPoint files can be customized by a teacher or students to create Jeopardy-style quizzing games about any subject. Thanks to Patrick for sharing these, and ESC15 for keeping the…
-
Multimedia project kits
KitZu is a website idea created by Hall Davidson which contains “a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources.” According to the website: A digital kit is meant to provide students with the building blocks necessary to build video and multimedia projects that tell a story and demonstrate learning. A kit can be made up…
-
Moral obligations to distribute ideas
Thanks to the magic of podcasting and TWiT, I had a chance this morning to listen for the second time to Lawrence Lessig of the Stanford Law School talk about Creative Commons, free culture issues, and other topics related to creative expression and intellectual property. First big idea that grabbed my attention was a question…
-
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching is a website dedicated to “using music to promote learning.” According to the homepage: Creative teachers can use music to teach content across the curriculum — to students of all ages. A host of educational experts brings you tested ideas for using the magic of music in your lesson plans. This site…
-
Great digital storytelling example and assignment
Thanks to a blog post from Lawrence Lessig I discovered this delightful, short digital story by Jonathan Coulton composed entirely with Flickr Creative Commons images. This will make an excellent assignment for the updated version of my Advanced Multimedia and Video spring course. Since students are only given the option of using Windows XP in…
-
Why I love Pictionary
I love the board game Pictionary! I have for played it for years and loved it for years, but have never owned my own copy. This Christmas I was thrilled to receive it as a gift from my family. I think I love Pictionary for the following reasons: It is competitive. It is all about…
-
Habits of Mind
It is amazing how web 2.0 interactive dialog facilitated by hyperlinks can create pathways for creative inquiry. Thanks to a blog comment by Jim McNelis and his reference to a post by Tom Hoffman on “Any Future Problem Solving Alumni Out There?” I found Essential School’s page for “Habits of Mind” today. According to Ted…