#keynote

Amy Burvall

Nov 18, 2018
2 min

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 edition. EdTechTeam Press published my book with Dan Ryder, Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom, and this event seemed perfect since its theme was “Creativity”. A few days prior, Ed Tech Team published a blog post I wrote describing some of the things I planned to share. I decided to pen some verse for this: Being creative can me

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Intelligence Having Fun: Keynoting Learning Technologies Summer Forum 2018 in London

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 something so seemingly esoteric need to be unpacked? Can an abstract concept like “creativity” be made relevant and practical to folks who need useful strategies they can implement tomorrow? I have to commend Donald H. Taylor , Chair of the Learning Technologies Conference, for taking a chance on a (surprisingly!) controversial topic and me,

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Thinking Like an Artist: Be Porous, Push Past, and Play

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 Mahelona. It was really tricksy because we didn’t live on the same island and therefore couldn’t practice together until the day before the event, each having memorized our respective parts of the script and practicing with voice recordings of the other punctuated by pauses. To be honest I thought I’d never do another one until several months

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Amy Burvall

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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Old School Style Stop Motion with Paper 53 for iPhone

Amy Burvall

Nov 8, 2015
3 min

Old School Style Stop Motion with Paper 53 for iPhone

I must say for the past two months since Paper by 53 released its iPhone version, I’ve been having a load of fun. The convenience has made it so that during down time at traffic lights (bad Amy) and standing in line at the bank or whatever I can quickly sketch out a few of my minimalist pieces or remix an old selfie. I’ll be writing an extensive blog post later about all the “series” I’ve been inspired to do, but you can find a lot of them on my Pinterest here: https://www.pi

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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 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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CUE E-Learning Symposium Strategies Keynote

Amy Burvall

Feb 1, 2015
1 min

CUE E-Learning Symposium Strategies Keynote

I had lovely time keynoting for this event (my first CUE event, actually) December, 2014. I consider this to be a “tweenote”, as mentioned in the talk…it’s an idea that started small, with a tweet, then expanded into a blog post , was refined into an Edutopia blog post, and finally fashioned into this presentation, complete with over 250 (though you can’t tell from the video) hand-drawn or animated slides. You can see the slide deck here, sans internal vids and my animation

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Crowdsourced Keynote: The Café, Studio , & the Stage

Amy Burvall

Aug 26, 2014
2 min

Crowdsourced Keynote: The Café, Studio , & the Stage

A while back, I wrote a brainstorm post about rethinking one’s course environment (be it digital, traditional, or blended): The Café, Studio , and Stage. Over the summer I was asked by Edutopia, one of my favourite go-to education sites, to compose a blog post for them on the same topic. You can find “Left-Bank Learning: When “Work Time” becomes “Studio Time” here. (includes a handy-dandy list of 6 hyperlinked tips. In December I’ll be kicking off CUE’s E-Learning Strategies

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Mobile is Killer: Experiment in “AppSmash”

Amy Burvall

Apr 24, 2014
2 min

Mobile is Killer: Experiment in “AppSmash”

I’ve been wanting to try this for, like, MONTHS and finally did it today. It could be more polished (like if I wouldn’t have said both “fancy-dancy” AND “fancy-schmancy” in under 2 minutes), but as my kid says, “you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit”. By the way, I believe the term “appsmash” is derived from Mr. Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) of EdTechTeacher. Process is as follows 1. Make lovely sketches in Paper app by Fifty-Three on the iPad (I use my signature col

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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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