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

This year I wanted to try out a little digital advent calendar. I toyed with the idea of creating my own template with something like Thinglink, but didn’t really have the time. Then I chanced upon https://tuerchen.com/ I’ve been using their template and uploading my own original artwork for the windows. (how it looks in editing mode) Frustrations so far have been not being able to hyperlink in the text box and not being able to scroll down to edit. I’ve solved this by using

One of my favorite quotes on my classroom’s massive white glossy “inspiration wall” is from John Cage: “There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” My personal goal this year is to get students involved in the creative process as much as possible, shifting away from consuming and stressing the importance of producing, contributing, making, and sharing on a daily basis. In addition to their regular steady diet of project-based assessments, I’m trying to have several

image: my student, Sam St. John I’ve been really enjoying participating in #etmooc, and the last Blackboard session with Alec got me thinking of connectivism again. Each year I have my IB Theory of Knowledge students read “Knowing Knowledge” by George Siemens (2006) KnowingKnowledge_LowRes (1) Last year we had a lively socratic circle activity with a Twitter backchannel, but this year I decided to include the reading and obligatory reflection in their semester exam. They resp