Amy Burvall
Crushing It With Creativity: The Virtual Summit Keynote
This past Friday I stayed up till midnight as I had the privilege to offer the opening keynote for EdTechTeam’s “The Virtual Summit”, EU...
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Amy Burvall
- Nov 8, 2018
- 2 min
Creativity is not a dirty word
Are you afraid of the word “creativity”? Or perhaps you simply have a disdain for what you believe to be a fruitless abstraction. Maybe...
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Amy Burvall
- Nov 8, 2018
- 1 min
If These Walls Could Talk…
I’ve known the lovely Alice Keeler for years and, like, everyone, am always amazed by her creative output and contributions to the...
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Amy Burvall
- Jun 25, 2018
- 1 min
Get Your Creativity On: Summertime Learning with Amy and Academic Tribe
Very pleased to be designing a few online learning experiences in collaboration with the great folks at Academic Tribe. head to the LX...
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Amy Burvall
- Jun 25, 2018
- 13 min
Intelligence Having Fun: Keynoting Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2018 in London
What does “creativity” have to do with “learning technologies”, the future of work, working with teams in the corporate sector? Why does...
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Amy Burvall
- May 19, 2018
- 1 min
Creativity Tips #11-20 for #LDvid30
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...
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Amy Burvall
- May 12, 2018
- 1 min
Creativity Tips Vlog Series: 1-10 #LDvid30
“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...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 30, 2018
- 3 min
Treading on Dreams: The Art of the #lookdown
Stephen Hawking has just recently passed away, and we are reminded of his quote: “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet…Be...
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Amy Burvall
- Mar 2, 2018
- 7 min
The Rigorous Whimsy Experience: Learning with #IntentiontheBook
February was a whirlwind month for me as a creativity and learning consultant. I had the opportunity to rekindle my relationship with the...
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Amy Burvall
- Mar 1, 2018
- 2 min
Spines and Wine – Serendipitous Couplets with Found Books
How thrilled I was, upon presenting at a recent conference in Portland, Oregon, that the hotel featured not one but two...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 12, 2018
- 4 min
Laudato Si: Learning from Pope Francis About Creative Caring
On February 8, 2018 I was honoured to be asked to speak to Catholic Educators from Vancouver (and indeed, some came from the farthest...
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Amy Burvall
- Jan 24, 2018
- 3 min
Pillow in the Cloud: the #SEIitagain Project
Over 1,000 years ago, in Japan’s Heian (which translates to “peace and tranquility”) Court, a lady-in-waiting to the retired Empress...
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Amy Burvall
- Jan 16, 2018
- 7 min
Mushroom Moments: Art and the Hawaii Ballistic Missile Alarm
from my #digitalDADA #mushroommomments collection For a while now I’ve been at extreme unease regarding the possibility of nuclear...
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Amy Burvall
- Dec 13, 2017
- 5 min
Balance Over Ban: 5 Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Prohibit Smartphones in the Classroom
I must say I was appalled when I read this piece this morning (and responded with several tweets of my own). I called this decision...
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Amy Burvall
- Dec 12, 2017
- 11 min
Amy Burvall: Keynotes and Workshops
I’ve decided to update my list of talks and workshops and compile all into a pdf menu. I’m able to customize most of them to fit certain...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 4, 2017
- 3 min
Visual Thinking: Image is Everything and Mad for Metaphor
One of my favourite workshops I’ve developed is “Image is Everything”. It’s a visual thinking experience that can be anywhere from 1-6...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 3, 2017
- 3 min
Critical Creativity for Grownups: Teachers Try INTENTIONtheBook
When Dan Ryder and I wrote Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom we knew in the back of our minds that the first three...
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Amy Burvall
- Oct 2, 2017
- 10 min
#rawthought: 10 Ways We Can Do Cancer Differently
my minimalist self portrait It’s my ten year anniversary of being diagnosed (ironically in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month), with...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 29, 2017
- 4 min
Thinking Like an Artist: Be Porous, Push Past, and Play
What seemed like ages ago I did my first TEDx talk – TEDxHonolulu 2011 – with my creative partner from “History for Music Lovers”, Herb...
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Amy Burvall
- Aug 6, 2017
- 6 min
#rawthought: On Ditching the (Dangerous) Dichotomy Between Content Knowledge and Creativity
“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life…” – Pablo Picasso I’ve taken this completely out of context (Picasso was alluding to...
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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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