Amy Burvall
“Spec”-tacular: Going Beyond the Rubric (The Makes, the TIONS, the Promises)
I have a confession, and I suspect I’m not alone. I love developing projects and opportunities for my students to create, but I...
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Amy Burvall
- Aug 29, 2013
- 4 min
Make du Jour: Daily Diet of Creativity
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...
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Amy Burvall
- Aug 1, 2013
- 8 min
Minding the P’s: the #BLC13 Experience
It’s been a few days since returning from my third (and probably most inspiring) year at November Learning’s Building Learning...
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Amy Burvall
- Jul 15, 2013
- 3 min
There’s No Copyright for Cookies: Why Educators Should Embrace Sharing
As an only child, I learned a lot from my mom, a great single-parent who passed away from cancer a mere 2 years ago. She was an excellent...
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Amy Burvall
- Jun 28, 2013
- 4 min
Hack Into the Hybrid: The Café , The Studio, and the Stage
This June I was privileged to present 3 sessions at the Kamehameha Schools’ “Imagine” Conference at the Blaisdell Center, Honolulu. I...
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Amy Burvall
- May 22, 2013
- 5 min
Making Work that…Works
It’s been a while since my creative partner Herb Mahelona and I, have uploaded a video to our History for Music Lovers Channel on...
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Amy Burvall
- May 6, 2013
- 3 min
Break, Shake, Make: Making as Learning for #teachtheweb
Week 1 Assignment for #teachtheweb MOOC: Reflect on Making as Learning. I decided to piece together some of my slides from a presentation...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 24, 2013
- 2 min
Soundbitification
“We’re looking for half seconds to excerpt” – so ends this intriguing Wired article by Clive Thompson. I’ve been pondering GIFS and other...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 24, 2013
- 3 min
How Life is Like Dinner Theatre: On Embracing Participatory Culture
First watch this: This was indeed life not too long ago. Until, perhaps, the “YOU” was inserted as a prefix to “TUBE”, among other...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 24, 2013
- 4 min
“Digital Life”: an augmented music video parody #edcmooc final artifact
For the final assessment task in the “E-Learning and Digital Cultures” MOOC (#etmooc) we were asked to, in the form of a digital...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 16, 2013
- 3 min
The Mona Lisa Effect: or Why Da Vinci Would Have Loved Skateboarding
First off, I’m sticking with this title, even though there’s some buzz on the Internet about a very different sort of “Mona Lisa Effect”....
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 12, 2013
- 1 min
Week 3 challenge for #edcmooc
The first image is reflective of my “Digital Viking” post. Just thought it would be fun to arrange some Viking ship jewelry on my Macbook...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 11, 2013
- 1 min
Hat Check Girl: a SilentFilm app #digitalstory
Today I decided to have some impromptu fun with my daughter, some fascinators and other hats, and the SilentFilm app by Cateater There’s...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 10, 2013
- 2 min
Poetry, Music, Sunrise, and Puppies: What Equilibrium Tells Us About Being Human #edcmooc
When thinking of what it means to be “human”, I keep coming back to the 2002 Christian (love him!) Bale film “Equilibrium”, a dystopian...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 10, 2013
- 3 min
FutureSchool: A Teen Perspective #edcmooc
Since we’ve been exploring the future of education / ed reform in #edcmooc, I thought I’d share something my IB Theory of Knowledge...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 10, 2013
- 4 min
Augmentopia: Making Steel and Glass Organic #edcmooc
The other day I was driving in terrible traffic with my 8 year old daughter and I blurted out : “Stupid car! Move it!” She responded...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 8, 2013
- 2 min
#winterwondergram: Patterns and Diversions
An Instagram Perspective Story I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting with hashtags and social media lately, particularly because: 1....
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 7, 2013
- 1 min
Etmooc Classico
I wanted to make something with the words most frequently used in our #etmchat sessions, as shown here: At first I decided to make a poem...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 7, 2013
- 2 min
To Be or Not to Bedazzled: What Comes First- the Story or the Tool?
While on my nightly scroll through Tumblr I chanced upon this: I must say it got my princess hormones all a flutter. But then I started...
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Amy Burvall
- Feb 6, 2013
- 1 min
#Lifeinthehood: Digital Storytelling Project #3 for #etmooc
I decided to create a collage of a Little Red Riding Hood themed photo shoot I did with my daughter. All photos were edited in...
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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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