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    Getting Picasso on Learning Technologies
    Amy Burvall
    • Apr 7, 2016
    • 5 min

    Getting Picasso on Learning Technologies

    my version: bull with wifi A few weeks ago I was in one of my favourite Twitter chats – #EDENchat – with Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) as host. The topic was “Which Personal Technologies?” (check out the Storify), and overall was lively, helpful, and civil.  But something about the conversation struck me about halfway through – it occurred to be suddenly that a preoccupation with devices, hardware, and software persists. Don’t get me wrong – I think most people have moved int
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    #mobilesapiens : a Crowdsourced Keynote
    Amy Burvall
    • Apr 24, 2014
    • 4 min

    #mobilesapiens : a Crowdsourced Keynote

    It’s been exactly a week since I stood onstage at the lovely Kamehameha Schools presentation hall in Hilo Hawaii  (aka The Big Island) to do the closing keynote for the Hawaii Island TechEd Collaborative Conference  (#hitc2014). It was called “Digital Life” and, I’m told, named so because my “Digital Life” parody video of the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was an inspiration at a faculty meeting. I had a great day doing a short workshop on fostering creativity on a da
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    Poetry, Music, Sunrise, and Puppies: What Equilibrium Tells Us About Being Human #edcmooc
    Amy Burvall
    • Feb 10, 2013
    • 2 min

    Poetry, Music, Sunrise, and Puppies: What Equilibrium Tells Us About Being Human #edcmooc

    When thinking of what it means to be “human”, I keep coming back to the 2002 Christian (love him!) Bale film “Equilibrium”, a dystopian look at the future where emotions are suppressed with drugs, and anything emotive (art, music, literature,etc.) is destroyed. Why? Because emotions can lead to very negative by-products, like civil disobedience and war. People are convicted as “sense offenders” (nice play on words!). Christian is part of the law enforcement until his wife is
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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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    The #globalthankswondercut project
    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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