Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: guestblogger

  • Reflections on Hernan Cortes, the Aztecs, and Mars Colonization

    Today in this blog post (and original video as well as audio podcast) I want to discuss a podcast episode titled, “The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)” on “The Rest is History,” by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. I’m excited to share about this podcast and topics it references for…

  • Media Literacy Lessons from Finland

    Earlier this month, I had a wonderful opportunity to attend, participate in and learn from the unique “Teaching for Resilience: FinnishED Workshop” hosted by the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington as well as TIP Teachers (Teachers for an Informed Public.) The focus question of our two days of learning together…

  • Mastodon Tips (Dec 2022)

    Mastodon is an open-source, federated social media platform which can ably serve as a replacement for Twitter. No, Mastodon is not QUITE as easy to use (right now) as Twitter in some ways, but the core capabilities and functions of Mastodon are robust and very functional. Today, I created a 32 minute screencast tutorial video…

  • Faster Home WiFi Via Ethernet Backhaul

    This past holiday weekend our son helped me with a home WiFi networking project I’ve been wanting to do for several months, and the speed benefits are wonderful! We’ve been using three Google WiFi access points (now “Nest WiFi”) for over a year. See my March 2019 post, “Google Mesh Home WiFi Makes our Internet…

  • 2003 K-12 Classroom Technology Integration: Pre-YouTube and Pre-Smartphone

    This week I’ve been working on a Family Media Timeline project, using the amazing (and free) Timeline Tool from the Knight Foundation (@knightfdn) to create an interactive website our family and friends can use to browse through iMovies and Flickr photo albums dating back to 2000, right after iMovie was first released by Apple. In…

  • Engaged, Educated and Impressed by the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.

    This week my daughter and I had an opportunity to spend several hours at the new Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. Wow were we ever impressed! I can’t wait to go back with other members of our family and spend a LOT more time taking in the exhibits as well as the special events…

  • KidBlog Update

    This is a guest blog post by Jennifer Reyher (@jenniferreyher), an instructional technology specialist in McAlester Public Schools, Oklahoma. Jennifer participated the 2015 STEMseeds PD Camp a couple weeks ago, and is a regular participant in PLAYDATE OKC and EdCampOKC events. KidBlog has been an amazing tool in my classroom. My students have become excited to…

  • Holiday weekend listen: Freakonomics Radio provides advice for tech-savvy teachers

    As we are embarking on one of the most heavily traveled holiday weekends of the year, I would recommend that you listen to a great podcast from the archives of Freakonomics Radio. Freakonomics Radio is the podcast based on the book franchise and is written and hosted by Steven Dubner. I was struck when first…

  • My year with an iPad

    My very first classroom in Grapevine, TX had a Macintosh LC550 connected to a 32″ television. This was 1995, and I had never seen anything like this. Once I figured out how to use it, I was enamored. The thought of displaying digital content while I was teaching was mind blowing, and I immediately began…

  • “My gut told me to say yes”

    Paul Otellini is the outgoing CEO of Intel, the world’s leading semiconductor company who’s products are used in almost every technological device. When it came to supply parts for the un-announced iPhone, he went with the data instead of his gut: “We ended up not winning it or passing on it, depending on how you…