Just a quick tip with an appsmash (credit that word to @gregkulowiec). I recently chanced upon a series of Christmas / Winter / Holiday -inspired sketches I did in 2015 for a series I called #novembrrrr. In fact, I even spliced them together at the end and made a quick film: I ended up losing several when my phone crashed but managed to salvage the bulk of them via my Instagram Lately I’ve been tinkering with a few apps, mixing them together to create new media. My favourite

The other morning I was lingering in my bed in my Airbnb in Maine and noticed something stunning on the white paneled wall…the light danced enticingly, almost teasingly. Juxtaposed with the leaves and window blinds it was an overwhelmingly poignant sight that succeeded in captivating me for a good few minutes. I was working out an accompanying audio track in my head when I got the idea to archive this fleeting moment on camera (iPhone6 to be exact), and marry it to some music

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

A while back the ever engaging Mr. Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) proposed yet another whimsical blogging challenge. As you recall, we started doing #blimage a while back with a volley of images (mine were sketches). This time, it’s called #twistedpairs and you can read about it and view others ON STEVE’S BLOG I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs lately. I certainly think they are wonderful, and a great testament to how participatory culture has democratized media / publishing

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

When the Learning and Performance Institute (@YourLPI ) in the UK challenged me to a video contest they were having in honour of their 20th anniversary, I thought (as I am likely to do) – why not? Besides – their colours are pink! The challenge was to think about the greatest changes in learning over the past 20 years, then – and this is really tricky part- create a mere 20 second video expressing your thoughts. I love a good creative constraint, so I took some brainstorm not

As part of the History for Music Lovers project, I wrote the lyrics to this song parody of The Kink’s “Come Dancin’ a while ago and the other half of Historyteachers, Herb Mahelona, recorded it. Originally I had wanted a student to animate it, or to try out Lego stop motion. But after putting that on hold for a while and viewing some cool lyric videos (Katy Perry’s “Birthday” in particular), I thought it might be nice to crowdsource submissions for each lyric line from studen