If you had control of the district ed-tech budget what would you do? Recently, I keynoted In Texas at Region One’s “Using Technology to Make a Difference Conference”. My keynote centered around “New Literacies” and how technology can be integrated seamlessly to cultivate those (see all 400+ hand-drawn pink slides here). We then broke up for a workshop later on Remix and Re-Contextualization for the Classroom (If you are interested, I’ll be doing a Master Class at Alan Novembe

I knew early on I wanted to make a parody music video echoing my work on the History for Music Lovers YouTube channel. I also knew it wouldn’t be as polished, since I didn’t have the fancy-schmancy software (Adobe After FX) and recording equipment we usually use, or the editing genius of Mr. Herb Mahelona, my creative partner. That being said, I wanted to experiment in using solely my mobile devices (iPad and iPhone 5) and tapping into my recent passion for making original sk