Category: design
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Podcast172: A 9 Year Old Discusses Programming in Scratch (Initial Impressions)
This podcast features a recording of 9 year old Alexander Fryer, discussing his formative impressions after using the software programming environment “Scratch” to create some basic animations. According to the official Scratch website: Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art —…
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Graphic design fun
It’s not often I take time to play with a graphic design– I’m not a graphic designer by trade… I’ve taught a few Adobe PhotoShop workshops and love dabbling with PhotoShop, but I’m certainly not an expert or “artiste” when it comes to making graphics. The banner image of my blog is an important element…
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What do the arts, brain research, and creativity have to do with the emerging face of education? EVERYTHING!
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE NECC KEYNOTE PANEL PRESENTATION ON TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007, FACILITATED BY ANDREW ZOLLI. MY COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I AM LIVE BLOGGING THIS, SO CLICK “REFRESH” EVERY 10 MINUTES OR SO FOR UPDATES. WHEN THE SESSION IS OVER I’LL WRITE “END OF NOTES” IN THE BLOG…
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Podcast160: Alan Kay’s EduComm 2007 Keynote
This podcast is a recording of Alan Kay’s wonderful keynote presentation on June 19, 2007, at the EduComm 2007 conference in Anaheim, California. Alan is an amazing thinker, inventor, teacher and innovator. His presentation, shared in Squeak, a programming language he invented, powerfully demonstrated how many adults around the world need to elevate their expectations…
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Notes from Alan Kay’s keynote at EduComm07
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM ALAN KAY’S KEYNOTE ON 19 JUNE 2007 AT EDUCOMM. ALAN GAVE ME PERMISSION TO RECORD THIS AS AN AUDIO PODCAST, WHICH I WILL PUBLISH HERE LATER TONIGHT. MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Alan Kay has an amazing bio: Amazing lifetime achievements. An amazing thinker, creator, and inventor. “the best…
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A great era for rocket scientists
For those who thought the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s were the golden age for rocket scientists, think again. The June 2007 issue of Wired Magazine has several articles relating to the new “rocket boom,” and I read Carl Hoffman’s article “Elon Musk Is Betting His Fortune on a Mission Beyond Earth’s Orbit” this evening.…
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A creativity challenge for your students
Hopefully your state assessments are over, and there is now time for more creativity in the classroom! Consider inviting your students to enter the Tech4Learning artistic postcard contest: Create a postcard from a place you would love to visit on your summer vacation and you could win an iPod or a pizza party! Deadline: Tuesday,…
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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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Podcast125: The Value of Student Programming and Constructionism (Gary Stager)
This podcast is a recording of the last half of a presentation by Gary Stager at the TCEA conference in Austin, Texas on February 7, 2007. The title of the session, which Gary co-presented with David Thornburg. I missed the first half of the preso when David presented, but these are most of the comments…