Category: creativity
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Morning with Marc Prensky
I spent some time recently driving to and from work with Marc Prensky, hearing him share some great insights about engaging digital natives in our classrooms and the value of games in helping students develop and refine problem solving skills. I actually did this by listening to podcasts of Marc’s keynote address from the Christa…
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Confluence and Glypho
Confluence is an application wiki similar to Jot.com. It is free for individual use (up to 2 users) but relatively pricey for academic use (25 users, $600 per year). I have used Jot.com before, it’s arrangement of 20 free wiki pages for up to 5 users seems better suited for academic term projects, since you…
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Web 2.0 Digital Storyelling
The Primary Access project and website from the University of Virginia is a great example of many things, including: The power of the web to serve as a platform for digital storytelling, both in authoring original and communicating finished digital stories. A creative way to empower digital storytellers but also conform to existing copyright restrictions.…
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Self determined music prices
Canadian singer and musician Jane Siberry has made all her music available from her website at self-determined prices. This means people downloading her music decide what price they would like to pay, and if they don’t want to pay anything, that is fine. This may sound like a reasonable idea for someone who has not…
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Intelligence and Technology
“Intelligence and Technology: The Impact of Tools on the Nature and Development” is a May 2005 publication edited by Robert Sternberg, David D. Preiss and Wendy M. Williams. The book appears is a rather expensive educational psychology text, but addresses many questions of vital interest to educators in our 21st century technology-laden environment. These include:…
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The flat world is real
I had a remarkable experience yesterday, which in the context of the flat world in which we live, may not seem so extraordinary to some. But for me it was, and I am still trying to process it. Last night, before watching a tragic, compelling, and complex movie with my wife (Ararat), I posted a…
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Hadron and PhotoPresenter
Hadron is a free shareware game similar to Pac Man for Macintosh computers that is simple and fun. One of the best features of Hadron is that it includes a levels editor, so you can create your own version of the game level by level. This provides a fantastic problem solving and video game development…
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Footfalls Toward Home
Inspired by what I have read so far in Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age,” and fairly exhausted from two very long and full days of technology integration workshops and sessions, I have spent some idle time in the Austin airport with Garageband making some music.…
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Thinking Big as the World is Small
Technology and Learning TechForum: Breakthroughs and Best Practices for Technology Leaders Welcome and Opening Keynote: “Thinking Big as the World is Small” by Hall Davidson The cameras in their cell phones make them citizen journalists. The web is their personal library and media center. They communicate in real time with the ends of the earth.…
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Connectivism presentation and Articulate Presenter
The Connectivism presentation by George Siemens (the eLearnSpace author) is a great 35 minute multimedia reflection about teaching, learning, elearning, and web 2.0. George explores how learning today is often disconnected from the informationally robust environment in which we live and work. He discusses “distributed cognition” and “learning as network creation.” Great stuff, great thoughts,…