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    Playing in the Sandbox with Alan Levine and Students from Mexico
    Amy Burvall
    • Sep 27, 2016
    • 1 min

    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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    Hashtaggery at #BLC16
    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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    #MobileSapiens: A Creative Safari
    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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    The Creativity Zone at Learning Live
    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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    Building Community Through Creativity
    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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    Ephemerments: Transient Beauty Spliced with Sound
    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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    Mad for Metaphor: On Being a Porous Pedestrian
    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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    Ahoy! Acrostic: Takeaways from the Social Age Safari with Sea Salt Learning
    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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    #rawthought: The Garden Effect and Bowie-ing it Up – Lessons from a Friend
    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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    Drawing with the Dormouse: Muchness and Suchness
    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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    The End is Near: Creative Reflections for the End of the School Year
    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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    Meaning from Madmen: Takeaways from the PBS Documentary “Art and Copy”
    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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    3 of me Sketch Response: Where I Was, Where I Am, Where I’m Headed
    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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    From Facts to ARTifacts: Balancing Content and Context in Technology-Assisted Assessment
    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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    Unlearning and Other Jedi Mind Tricks – Finding the (Creative) Force
    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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    #rawthought: Starfish, Coffee, and Dooba Dooba Dooba
    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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    Artistic Voice: Get Your Dirt In It (with Homage to Prince)
    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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    Products of the Mind Podcast
    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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    #gridsgestures with Nick Sousanis and #ds106 Daily Create
    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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    Can We Hope for Happy…or Pine for Passion? (Creativity as Spouse and Lover)
    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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    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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