Category: humor
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The cutest 5 year old dancer you’ve ever seen
This is too good to not share. Last weekend our family attended the wonderful wedding of my cousin Devin Henley and his beautiful bride, Andrea. This evening as my wife and I watched “The Red Violin” (a great flick, btw) I caught up on my photo and video uploads to Flickr. I’m in the habit…
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Podcast270: A Conversation with Benjamin Franklin- Inventor, Statesman, Author and Civic Activist
This podcast features a recording with Steven Smith, a wonderful re-enactor of Benjamin Franklin, at the 2008 Oklahoma A+ Schools Conference on August 1st. In the character of Benjamin Franklin, Steven recounts historial events of his life as an inventor, statesman, author and civic activist. If there is a more memorable and impactful way to…
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A Google cache saved my life tonight!
It is thankfully not often my heart actually stops beating momentarily after clicking a mouse button. Unfortunately, one of these moments happened this evening when I was updating my online vitae. Have you ever accidentally overwritten a computer file you did NOT have properly backed up? I have. A few of those instances are burned…
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Lots more stopmotion fun and lessons learned
Our fourth day of stopmotion filmmaking fun at our church’s fine arts camp ended today, and our final completed video count stands at 22. None of these films tell complete stories, and many are pretty random, but they do represent a great deal of learning, work, and fun! I published all our videos this evening…
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Helpful tips for PowerPoint authors
How many BAD PowerPoint slide decks have you seen and been forced to endure, relative to truly compelling multimedia presentations? My lifetime PPT history includes (unfortunately) far more bad examples than good ones. Perhaps authors of PowerPoint (or more generically we should probably say, “multimedia presentation slideshows”) could benefit from Comedian Don McMillian’s suggestions: My…
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“What is Schooliness?” – Discursus and Open Thread (Clay Burell guest-post 2)
I Love Learning. I Hate Schooliness. –this is my motto. It’s one of the reasons I wrote (in a post, “On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher,” with about 70 comments now), I’m not sure how much longer I want to work for schools. I’d so much rather teach. So what is “schooliness”? I have…
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Lots of Jack O Lanterns and Signs
I love taking pictures, and I love Flickr. This evening as we supervised trick or treating for our three kids in our neighborhood (we definitely had a record “haul” for candy) I took photos of lots of jack o lanterns. I then joined the “Great Pumpkin” jack o lantern photo pool on Flickr, and contributed…
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Now that was a late game
Yes, that watch actually does read 12:05 AM. Saturday AND Sunday’s KSU versus CU football matchup had just finished: Made with FD’s Flickr Toys.
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Beware the dangers of multi-tasking
Whoa – this just in via Karen Montgomery: Beware the dangers of multi-tasking! 😉 This is a great video to use for teacher professional development– for tips on downloading an offline copy of this to share, see my post “Capturing offline copies of YouTube videos.”
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New videos to share with educators
Last night when chatting with Miguel Guhlin about ideas for sharing with and teaching administrators about technology leadership, he shared the following videos I hadn’t seen or considered before. I’ve added these to a new del.icio.us tag I’ve started, presentationvideos. For videos on YouTube and TeacherTube, I’ve added those to my respective favorite playlists. (My…