Amy Burvall
Playing in the Sandbox with Alan Levine and Students from Mexico
This morning I was privileged to share a screen with Alan Levine (@cogdog) as we spoke informally to a group of Ken Bauer’s (@ken_bauer )...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 21, 2016
- 1 min
Hashtaggery at #BLC16
“The Tag is the Soul of the Internet” This summer at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities (BLC16) I launched a new presentation...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 20, 2016
- 4 min
#MobileSapiens: A Creative Safari
This summer I took a chance on a new form of conference offering for me – the outside-the-venue-creative-safari. I launched it at Alan...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 20, 2016
- 6 min
The Creativity Zone at Learning Live
What is the best part of any conference or similar professional gathering? It’s the people, of course! From purposeful networking to...
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Amy Burvall
- Sep 1, 2016
- 6 min
Building Community Through Creativity
note bene: while this post is directly applicable to educational organizations, the strategies may be effectively applied to any...
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Amy Burvall
- Aug 30, 2016
- 2 min
Ephemerments: Transient Beauty Spliced with Sound
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...
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Amy Burvall
- Jul 5, 2016
- 6 min
Mad for Metaphor: On Being a Porous Pedestrian
taken while walking at a trolley station in San Diego Metaphorical Meanderings I recently returned from a speaking trip to both Austin,...
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Amy Burvall
- Jun 2, 2016
- 9 min
Ahoy! Acrostic: Takeaways from the Social Age Safari with Sea Salt Learning
Just over a week ago I had the utmost privilege to fly over two oceans and be part of the inaugural cohort of Sea Salt Learning’s “Social...
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Amy Burvall
- Jun 1, 2016
- 4 min
#rawthought: The Garden Effect and Bowie-ing it Up – Lessons from a Friend
This past week I was privileged to meet with dear old friends in the beautiful land that is the U.K. I culminated my part business / part...
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Amy Burvall
- May 13, 2016
- 4 min
Drawing with the Dormouse: Muchness and Suchness
Yesterday listening to a beautiful rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit by Icelandic chanteuse Emiliana Torrini: I’ve always...
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Amy Burvall
- May 11, 2016
- 5 min
The End is Near: Creative Reflections for the End of the School Year
I’ve been reviewing some of my old Theory of Knowledge (TOK in the International Baccalaureate) curriculum as I prepare for a creativity...
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Amy Burvall
- May 9, 2016
- 11 min
Meaning from Madmen: Takeaways from the PBS Documentary “Art and Copy”
Last night I serendipitously came across this great documentary on the great “advertising creatives” of the last 60 years. “Art and...
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Amy Burvall
- May 7, 2016
- 1 min
3 of me Sketch Response: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Headed
I’m thinking about asking some friends who enjoy visual thinking to provide a sketch response to this prompt. I always used this with my...
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Amy Burvall
- May 7, 2016
- 8 min
From Facts to ARTifacts: Balancing Content and Context in Technology-Assisted Assessment
“I’d like to use my lifeline…” I’ve really not watched Who Wants to Be A Millionaire more than a few times, but my pop culture literacy...
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Amy Burvall
- May 5, 2016
- 13 min
Unlearning and Other Jedi Mind Tricks – Finding the (Creative) Force
I believe the greatest calling of an educator is to inspire one’s students to want to wonder and learn about things on their own, and to...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 24, 2016
- 4 min
#rawthought: Starfish, Coffee, and Dooba Dooba Dooba
I chanced upon two things this morning that really struck a chord (you’ll get the pun when you see that both are about famous musicians)....
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 22, 2016
- 6 min
Artistic Voice: Get Your Dirt In It (with Homage to Prince)
Prince died today. He was one of the people from my heyday, though I was more in the Cyndi Lauper camp at the time (note that he did...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 20, 2016
- 1 min
Products of the Mind Podcast
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of chatting with David Lizerbram, a business lawyer, in his “Products of the Mind” series, “a podcast...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 18, 2016
- 2 min
#gridsgestures with Nick Sousanis and #ds106 Daily Create
Last week I really enjoyed a little collaborative creativity exercise proposed by Nick Sousanis, author of Unflattening, and taken up by...
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Amy Burvall
- Apr 14, 2016
- 5 min
Can We Hope for Happy…or Pine for Passion? (Creativity as Spouse and Lover)
“We don’t really want what we think we desire” The other day I stumbled upon this piece from “theorist and provacateur” (read: best job...
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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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