Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Category: humor

  • Using 8 Bit Games and Humor to Present Serious Political Messages

    The website and political game project “GOP Arcade” (@GOParcade) offers telling insights into not only the issues of the 2016 election in the United States, but also the ways media and gaming can be used to influence voters and communicate serious political messages. The site features 8 bit online games (that means they have very…

  • Grand View THUNDERS UP! #playingwithmedia

    As a 1:1 educator and educational technology integration specialist, when Wes asked me if I’d like to contribute a #playingwithmedia post for his blog I jumped on the opportunity. I work at Grand View, a rural PK-8 district in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. Our summer camp is in full swing, and we have students working to…

  • Vader Did You Know? [video]

    As a Star Wars fan familiar with the “Mary Did You Know” song, I found the YouTube remix “Vader Did You Know?” song and video HILARIOUS today. Enjoy! This video is a great example of fair use and legal video remixing. Show this to your students and discuss it. Is this legal? Are the creators…

  • Seeking Adventure in the Wide World (Puppet Pals video)

    This evening I spent about fifteen minutes creating a short fairy tale with the iPad app, “Puppet Pals.” I’ve titled this 7 minute, 40 second animated classic, “Seeking Adventure in the Wide World.” Any correlation to real situations and people, including the epic struggle now underway to change the draconian content filtering policies of a…

  • Awesome Brickfilm

    This is a guest post by my 13 year old son, Alexander. So I don’t normally write things up but but dad asked me to share this. I love building and playing with legos. It is always fun to build fancy ships but the lego minifigure is also one of the best tools to make stopmotion films…

  • Jack Berckemeyer: Opening Keynote at Qatar Academy

    These are my notes from Jack Berckemeyer‘s opening keynote at the “Middle Level Years Learn-Tech Conference: Creating Connections For Educators Of Middle Level Students” in Doha, Qatar, on October 7, 2011. There is NO way my notes can possibly do justice to Jack’s dynamic, humorous, and engaging presentation style. WOW. This was one of the…

  • Starting the School Year Off Right with a Faculty & Staff Lip Dub

    Faculty and staff in O’Neill, Nebraska, have kicked off a new school year with a fun new media twist: In two hours they planned and recorded a wonderful lip dub set to Journey’s song, “Don’t Stop Believing.” There are TONS of great scenes in this lib dub, but my favorite is definitely the guitar solo…

  • It’s not a real spider, it’s just a smartphone

    This 30 second advertisement for the new Samsung Infuse 4G smartphone will make you laugh. Is the spider real, or is it virtual? Of course it’s an exaggeration, but the video does make the very serious point that graphics on new smartphones can be amazingly detailed. I’m generally not a big fan of advertisements and…

  • Humor Can Help End PowerPoint Abuse

    Comedian Don McMillian‘s 2008 skit, “Life After Death By PowerPoint” (4 min, 24 sec) is a favorite video of mine to share with pre-service education students learning how to use images effectively in the “Presentation Zen” style of Garr Reynolds. photo © 2007 Gareth Saunders | more info (via: Wylio) Yesterday, thanks to a tweet…

  • TMobile Claims iPhone Users Pay AT&T More to Be Slower

    The current TMobile advertisement for their 4G network data plans, “Step Up to Nationwide 4G Without Losing Your Shirt,” is pretty funny– particularly their portrayal of the AT&T exec. The setup for the advertisement is a direct play on Apple’s “Get a Mac” ad campaign featuring John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac.…