Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tag: book

  • Inspired by Ashley Vance’s Biography of Elon Musk

    Elon Musk (@elonmusk) is not only an inspiring and fascinating person, he’s also one of the most important entrepreneurs of our times who is combining technology with hard work and engineering smarts to solve some extremely challenging problems we face as a human race. Today I finished listening to the biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (@valleyhack)…

  • Sharing My Learning via Twitter from Write Well, Sell Well 2015

    Yesterday and today I presented and participated in the 2015 “Write Well, Sell Well Conference” in Oklahoma City. This is the third year of the conference, and it was absolutely amazing. I wrote three blog posts with my notes from sessions, but mainly used Twitter to archive and share my own learning. Those posts included: iPad Green…

  • Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers by Chris Maselli

    These are my notes from Chris Maselli’s breakout session, “Selling Well for Non-Fiction Writers” on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Write Well, Sell Well Conference in Oklahoma City. Chris is a children’s book author as well as a phenomenal teacher/coach on book/ebook marketing for authors. Last year his sessions motivated me to launch the PlayingWithMedia.com…

  • Developing & Writing a Pitch for your Book

    The past two years I have worked with several other local authors in Oklahoma City to organize a wonderful writing conference called, “Write Well, Sell Well Oklahoma City.” The first year it was a 1 day conference, the second year it was a day and a half. This year’s conference will be two days on October 23-24,…

  • Mapping Media Vol 1 Chapters Available as Separate eBooks

    I’m pleased to announce  individual chapters  of ‘Mapping Media to the Common Core: Volume I” are available as separate eBooks for $2.99 each on Amazon.com. I’ve updated the book/eBook descriptions on the “About” page of the Mapping Media website. Whether you are a current teacher, a pre-service teacher, or an instructor/professor teaching educational technology courses, the availability…

  • Parody Fest: Goodnight Goon, Dune, Forest Moon, iPad, Democracy & More

    Our family members have been fans of “Goodnight Moon” (by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd) for many years. Prior to Christmas last year, I learned about David Milgrim’s clever “Goodnight iPad” book, which he wrote under the psyudonum “Ann Droyd.” There are several other creative parodies of “Goodnight Moon” available in print,…

  • Implications of Radical Change to Cultural Access

    Larry Lessig is a thought leader and author I deeply respect. Thanks to Michelle Thorne’s post yesterday on the Creative Commons blog, I learned about Dr. Lessig’s presentation from November at EduCause which is available on blip.tv, “It is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright.” If you are remotely interested in copyright and intellectual…

  • Podcast281: Brisinger Book Release, Home Run Books, Flow, and Reading Advice from 10 Year Old Alexander

    This podcast is a recorded interview in the car with 10 year old Alexander. Two years ago, as a third grader, Alexander read the book Eragon after he saw the movie and it become his “home run book.” Literacy scholar Jim Trelease coined the phrase “home run book” to describe a book which someone reads…

  • EdTechTalk: Join our conversation about Netflix-style social networking about books for KIDS!

    You’re invited to join in the conversation this evening at 9 pm US Eastern time (8 pm Central) on the Teachers Teaching Teachers channel of EdTechTalk, discussing (among other things I’m sure) the ideas raised in last Saturday’s ITM blog post, “A Quest for NetFlix Plus Functionality for Books – for Young Readers!” as well…