I can’t believe I’ve finished 20 of these – 10 more to go! I’ve really enjoyed coming up with something each day…particularly trying to correlate with a daily event or a metaphor I’ve come across in my day-to-day living. Most amusing, of course, are all the “fails” from the voice recognition….maybe that will be a blooper roll. List-Less On Whimsy (HVIMA) and Being More Eurovision Gathering Dust For Stars Think Like your Kid Make More Stuff Resistance Is Not Futile Lessons fro

“Creativity Tips!” Bet you didn’t see that coming. What I am trying to do is keep it raw, going with whatever I shoot in one take. I’m also trying to incorporate a visual in each episode and tap into metaphor a bit. Some topics are influenced by my previous work in this field, but others are totally spontaneous, relating to something going on at present. As for the tech, I am experimenting with, which can result, I’ve discovered, in some pretty hilarious voice recognition sna

I believe the greatest calling of an educator is to inspire one’s students to want to wonder and learn about things on their own, and to point them in the direction of tools (hardware, software, and mindware) they can use to facilitate their respective (life-long) learning pursuits.  One perception of our responsibility is to prepare the youth under our influence for “the future“. I’ve always considered “the future” to be esoteric at best and completely uncertain and unpredic

In late January 2016 I was pleased to do a one hour webinar on the topic of “fostering daily critical creativity in the K-12 classroom” for Learning Bird. Linked below is the 3-part blog series I created as a webinar wrap-up. There’s some theory about how creativity works, but loads of practical tips and strategies. By the way – these can be incorporated into your life outside the classroom, and of course may even be applicable to adults. Part I: The Way Back to Wonder Part I

I was so honoured last month to be a part of the Adobe Education Ignite talk series with some brilliant peers: Rafranz Davis, Kelly Kermode, and Jeff Larson. Special thanks to Thor Prichard for asking me to be a part of it! In my talk I focused on the nature of creativity and how one can cultivate a daily creative habit, as well as incorporate creativity on a daily basis in one’s classroom. Here’s the video: #makerculture #ignite #adobe #creativity #creative #education