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Nov 8, 2015
1 min

#getsmART spotlight: Pablo Picasso

I’ve been waiting to make these “breakout videos” spotlighting the artists from my “#getsmART: Lessons from the Artists” keynote for a while, but just haven’t had the time. However, October 25 marked Picasso’s birthday, so I felt utterly compelled to whip this out. The process was: use my keynote slides to create the Quicktime, self-playing video import into iMovie and record a voiceover I plan to these for the other artists I discussed in the keynote, which you can view HERE

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Amy Burvall

Sep 30, 2015
1 min

Visual Verse Volley

Starting a new project…something for Sundays! I love having something consistent to do…some creative challenge that has a designated time slot but is not too overwhelming (in other words, has a low barrier of entry). My most recent has been my “Friday Five” reflections, but I was craving something collaborative. My gal pal Erin Olson (@eolsonteacher ) and I don’t meet face to face often (only twice actually at Alan November’s BLC Conference in Boston), but she and I are “symp

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Series Theories: or, Confessions of a Serial Creator Using Paper by 53 for iPhone

Amy Burvall

Sep 25, 2015
6 min

Series Theories: or, Confessions of a Serial Creator Using Paper by 53 for iPhone

For better or for worse, I’ve always been a tad obsessive (let’s blame my maternal grandmother, who purchased 5 of the same type of sweater sets or perhaps my paternal grandfather, who’d make the same special “recipe” for weeks on end – we called it “a kick”). Creatively, this can be beneficial. I have a weird internal engine that propels me to make as many as of whatever-I’m-currently-into-at-the moment as possible. Of course I inevitably get bored and move on, but there ar

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Amy Burvall

Sep 6, 2015
1 min

#BLC15 Keynote: #getsmART

Here is the video archive of my 15 min mini keynote ( I was last on a panel of 4) for Alan November’s Building Learning Communities Conference, 2015. I’ve been attending since 2010 and love it every time..this year I did a couple of presentations as well as the keynote and 3 Master Classes (between 4-7 hours each). (to view on the November Learning Homepage, CLICK HERE) One of the slides at the beginning got cut off and the illustrations look a bit purple rather than my signa

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Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part III

Amy Burvall

Jul 26, 2015
7 min

Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part III

“Blessed are people who see beautiful things in places where other people see nothing” – Camille Pissarro This is the 3rd blog entry in a series of four in which I aim to draw comparisons between the paradigm shift in education today (in particular, the influence of mobile and connected learning), and the Impressionist Art Movement. My main point is that something considered to be avant-garde or revolutionary eventually becomes quite ordinary, and therefore we need not fear s

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Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part II

Amy Burvall

Jun 26, 2015
7 min

Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part II

Hopefully you have perused the intro to this blog series. Part II is about HARDWARE (that is, the physical components and technologies that facilitated the Impressionist art movement and how they are analogous to what is going on now) I. Paint Tubes Perhaps most importantly was the invention of the portable metal paint tube – something of course we all take for granted now (Sweden even sells caviar in tubes!). Prior to the invention of such a tube by John Goffe Rand (patented

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Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part I

Amy Burvall

Jun 25, 2015
3 min

Plus ça change: Why Mobile Learning is the New Impressionism, Part I

Marie Antoinette poignantly expressed what the generic French phrase plus ça change plus c’est la même chose drives at. That is, the “more things change, the more they stay the same”. Some might find this view pessimistic, like it should be accompanied by a heavy sigh of defeat. I rather find it comforting, because – let’s all admit it – change is downright scary and uncomfortable (albeit frequently exciting). Still, change is more palatable than revolution (something Queen M

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Amy Burvall

Jun 24, 2015
4 min

In the Backseat with #Makeout Poetry

I’ve been wanting to write about this weird little experiment for a few weeks now. It’s a hybrid of two ideas… I’ve long loved the work of Austin Kleon and although his books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! resonate with me most, I dig what he does with blackout poetry using newspapers and Sharpie. He often talks about the lineage of this style of found poetry. It suddenly hit me that an interesting remix would be to use lipstick instead of black pen to cross out ext

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Amy Burvall

May 25, 2015
2 min

#rawthought: Nostanalogue

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. My favourite drawing app, Paper by 53 , just released a cool new set of tools called Think. They promise to “recognize and correct objects in real time”, plus include a “fill” feature…that is, you can draw an imperfect circle and the app with make it perfect. I’ve been debating whether to use it or not. You see, I really love the look of haphazard strokes…of hand-drawn sketchiness…of things being off kilter just a little (you know,

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Standing on the Shoulders: The Artists Who Have Influenced Me

Amy Burvall

Apr 26, 2015
3 min

Standing on the Shoulders: The Artists Who Have Influenced Me

I talk about remix a lot – probably more than most people. I even have a pretty meaty G+ community that houses all kinds of examples. I also sketch a lot- in fact, this past year, I’ve averaged about 10 sketches a day for my various projects: Serendipidoodle, #100daysofhashtaggerie, Drawmour, #threethirtysketchquote, and My day in One Word – not to mention the ones I do for keynotes (about 350 per one hour keynote). I upload most of these to my My-conography Tumblr. Sketching

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#threethirtysketchquote: A Kick in the Creative Pants

Amy Burvall

Aug 29, 2014
1 min

#threethirtysketchquote: A Kick in the Creative Pants

I’ve been doing what I’ve deemed “Sketchquotes” for about a year now, mostly using the Paper app by Fifty Three. They are sort of mixed in to my Mycongraphy site of metaphorical icons and images I’ve created for slide presentations. The first full week of school is over and boy, when the bell rings at the end of the day I feel like I need to TAKE A BREAK AND MAKE something…anything! That’s when I decided to create #threethirtysketchquote as a tag and a Tumblr blog. The gist i

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Learning from the Artist Series II: Michelangelo

Amy Burvall

May 4, 2014
9 min

Learning from the Artist Series II: Michelangelo

While brainstorming for an upcoming keynote on Creativity, I started thinking about the artists whose lives I have studied a bit (as a former World History teacher) and what we could learn from them – not particularly from their oeuvres, but from their creative process and the way they lived. At first I set out to make one comprehensive post, but then recoiled, thinking it would be too overwhelming. So, this will be a blog series of sorts, highlighting one artist per post. (

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Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)

Amy Burvall

Dec 28, 2020
6 min

Also....Advent (an Alternative Advent Calendar, 2020)

This year I decided to once again use the digital Advent calendar creation site https://tuerchen.com/ However, I noticed that they don't...

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Amy Burvall

Nov 29, 2020
1 min

The #globalthankswondercut project

If you were to write a love letter to the world what would it be? A Crowdsourced Creativity Project In the midst of this global pandemic...

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