In this workshop we explored the essence of creativity and how to cultivate a creative creative climate in the classroom. We explored low barrier entry ways to get students thinking and working more creatively on a daily basis, using both digital and analog tools and strategies.
***please note the videos embedded are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Workshop slide deck for iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play but they are all in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. A remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy.
***please note that videos are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112632173247239192908
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Workshop slide deck for iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play but they are all in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. A remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy.
***please note that videos are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112632173247239192908
Workshop deck from iPadpalooza 2016. Please note the videos will not play, but all are in the G+ community https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
This is the 2nd part of a 3 part presentation I gave for UNOi in Los Cabos, Mexico. It shares the "why " of creativity in 21st century education and the nature of creativity, punctuated by interactive experiences as it addresses the "how".
Creativity presentation and workshop deck for my inservice at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver Island. Please note that the videos and video transitions will not play in this form.
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
My keynote for the "Know Yourself and Be Open to the Differences of Others" children's conference at the University of Worcester, UK for students age 9-13
*please note that the videos will not play
Crushing It with Creativity- The Virtual Summit EU keynoteAmy Burvall
Crushing It with Creativity outlines some of the beliefs set forth in the "Creativity Credo" from my book, "Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom". It then offers a plethora of ideas for creative thinking in the classroom and beyond
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This is the first part of a three part presentation given in Los Cabos, Mexico for UNOi. In it, I draw parallels between the life, creative processes and work of Leonardo Da Vinci and that of project-based learning, maker culture, and inquiry. At the beginning some analogies are made between mobile learning and the Impressionist art movement.
Intention: Critical Creativity in the K-12 Classroom ISABC17Amy Burvall
exploration into the alignment of our book (myself and Dan Ryder) with the BC curriculum's core competencies (Creative thinking, Critical thinking, Communication)...please note that videos will not playh
This hands-on workshop explored the "whys" of visual literacy and offered participants an opportunity to tinker and play with everything from metaphorical icons to photos, gifs, and video.
***please note that videos in this slide deck are not enabled
Feel free to join the open G+ community here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
FISA2016 Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Critical CreativityAmy Burvall
Presentation slides for the Federation of Independent Schools of British Colombia in February 2016. Please note videos will not play but the resources are located in the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/101416752034019971438
VIEW the VIDEO here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfcWI_FJtRM&feature=youtu.be
University of Worcester Children's Conference Amy Burvall
My keynote for the "Know Yourself and Be Open to the Differences of Others" children's conference at the University of Worcester, UK for students age 9-13
*please note that the videos will not play
Crushing It with Creativity- The Virtual Summit EU keynoteAmy Burvall
Crushing It with Creativity outlines some of the beliefs set forth in the "Creativity Credo" from my book, "Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom". It then offers a plethora of ideas for creative thinking in the classroom and beyond
NOTE: The videos in this presentation have not been enabled to play
“The tag is the soul of the Internet”, says Derrick de Kerckhove in The Augmented Mind. How can educators exploit the use of tagging content in a variety of mediums in order to help students practice these new literacies and understand the workings of the Web? In this session we’ll look at both practical and creative (or “meta”) tagging and explore ways to organize a course in Twitter, G+, Storify, Instagram, and Wordpress blogs. We’ll explore playful uses of tags to recontextualize, add commentary, or create art, poetry, and literature. The hashtag is a powerful device of the organization of knowledge, but it can be maximized for critical and divergent thinking.
*this is a presentation with hands-on activities. Please bring a mobile device and, if you wish, a laptop.
Image is Everything: Exploring Critical Thinking Through Visual Literacies BLC15Amy Burvall
***Please note videos will not play
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition (Paivio, 1971), reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This hands-on session will explore the “Whys” of visual literacy and offer participants an opportunity to tinker and play with:
iconography and metaphorical thinking
pictograms, “Shortology”, emoji, meme stories, and gifs
graphic design, graphic facilitation, infographics and sketchnotes
photography, cinemagrams (moving photos)
icon-based annotations and marginalia
using images to leverage CVs, social media, and presentations
We’ll experiment with ways to use visual language for personal knowledge management, amplification of knowledge and creative work, critical thinking, social interaction (conversation), and other forms of creative and intellectual expression.
Image is Everything: Exploring Visual Literacy for Critical Thinking EdTechTe...Amy Burvall
From cave walls to Facebook walls we have always embraced visual communication. Dual coding theory of cognition reiterates the importance of visual imagery in respect to our thinking processes - that in fact we need visual language in addition to verbal or text-based coding of stimuli. With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We are quickly moving from images as decoration and augmentation to images as sole content and communication tool. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
**Please not videos will not play but they are located in respective categories on the G+ community
Workshop trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYNQ2hzbeQI
Workshop Resources: https://plus.google.com/u/1/communities/113762614515763343967
Workshop for Independent School Association of British Colombia at Mulgrave School, Feb 2015. (please note videos will not play but they are in our open G+ community, found at: https://plus.google.com/communities/101164486056743840888
The Open Web is facilitating the power combinatorial creativity like never before. While creativity has always been about remix and “standing on the shoulders of giants”, our networks now allow for boundless creative connections and collaborations. What happens when hundreds or even thousands contribute even the smallest bit to the project pie? How can educators and students participate in established crowdsourced projects, as well as develop their own? The Cloud has become our campfire, where we compose and share stories with the ever increasingly varied media available to us. Technologist Dr. David Weinberger famously noted that “The smartest person in the room IS the room”- can we then apply that concept to creativity? Could what we make together be more poignant, more powerful, and more interesting than anything we could have created individually? In this session participants will explore various established projects and imagine how they might be applied in their courses or professional development plans. We’ll also take some time to ideate one or more original projects that could be implemented with existing tools.
Thinking Outside the Lines with #newliteracies (Santa Rosa Summit with EdTEch...Amy Burvall
How can we model and help our students develop skills in the new literacies of the digital world? In this workshop we explored the so-called "new" or "emerging" literacies - things like the nuances of hashtags and how to use them for creative production, video blogging as an effective alternative to the written essay, microcontent, and visual thinking and media.
***please note that the VIDEOS will not play in this version
See some of the vlogging videos in this community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/115585487553081978789
Leveraging for Legacy and Cultivating New Literacies: Region One Texas "Using...Amy Burvall
my keynote for the "Using Technology to Make a Difference" conference in Texas. Note that the videos will not play and it is video intensive, so please feel free to join the G+ community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749 or contact me.
This keynote, first offered at Sc Midlands (South Carolina) is all about provocation over pontification. I pose questions to help us rethink education and "edtech". Keep in mind that many anecdotes were shared as the "meat" behind these queries. Most come from my public thinking on my blog: amysmooc.wordpress.com
*note there are a few slides with videos ...they should play (though I did not show the entirety of the Student Voices Clip (only 2 min of the 25)
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity BLC15Amy Burvall
***please note videos will not play
“There is no win, there is no fail, there is only make” (John Cage). One of the greatest challenges is developing ideas, finding time, and offering opportunities for students work on creative projects. More importantly, how do we move beyond the “assignment” stage and encourage students to be intrinsically motivated to make beautiful things on a regular basis? How do we foster the shift from consumption to production? Even if you don’t have the luxury of offering a project-based curriculum, you can still develop a steady diet of ongoing, “back-burner” projects that gets student to “dare to make and share”. This session will explore ways to instill a creative culture in your classroom, with everything from low-entry point crowdsourced uses of social media to the #showyourwork movement which asks students to be overt about their design thinking, creative process, and troubleshooting and contribute to collective knowledge. At the heart of personalized learning is creative freedom, but students often need a spark of inspiration, a design brief, or mentorship to get them on the road to making. In this workshop we will get our creative juices flowing and explore trends in combinatorial and crowdsourced creativity facilitated by social media, as well as the role of analogue elements in digital makery. You will have the opportunity to create and perform, as well as develop projects for future use. We’ll look at teacher-as-creator and the importance of transparency and curation in facilitating creativity in the classroom. All participants will leave with a "goodie bag"- a membership to an ever-growing digital community of resources and dialogue centering around creativity in the classroom.
Workshop on Visual Thinking and Visual Literacy for the Independent School Association of British Columbia (Mulgrave School, Feb, 2015).
Bear in mind the videos won't play but thy are all located in our G+ community at
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/113762614515763343967
With the changing media landscape, our streams, memes, and zines have exploded with imagery, ushering in a need for visual literacy skills. We have some false beliefs about visual language - that it is equated with “art”, requiring “talent” from “creative types” - and therefore it is unfortunately often not overtly taught and practiced in schools. Technology has affected knowledge in such a way as to diminish the value of “raw” information and increase the value of sense-making, as well as chip away at attention spans, sparking a need for distillation of complex ideas. Images can essentialize the cumbersome in beautiful ways. They have a “stickiness” for the viewer and challenge the critical thinking of the creator.
This is the first part of a three part presentation given in Los Cabos, Mexico for UNOi. In it, I draw parallels between the life, creative processes and work of Leonardo Da Vinci and that of project-based learning, maker culture, and inquiry. At the beginning some analogies are made between mobile learning and the Impressionist art movement.
Mysterious Fossil Identified as Preserved Dinosaur BrainValerie Varnuska
Westbury, NY, resident Valerie Varnuska appreciates the little things in life, and is often in awe of the natural and technological wonders of our world. Valerie Varnuska holds a special appreciation for paleontology and the study of fossils.
Meditation and Hypnosis Similarities and DifferencesAnkesh Gorkhali
Meditation:
A means of transforming the mind. Buddhist meditation practices are techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotional positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things.
Hypnosis:
The induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction.
Here you will learn:
How to Connect two or more devices to share data and information.
What is OSI Model?
Introduction to OSI Model
What is Physical Layer?
Devices used Physical Layer
What is Signal?
Types of Signals?
Analog Signals
Digital SIgnals
What is Transmission Medium?
What Is Switch in Networking?
Networking 7 Layers.
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Smart 4 Culture: esperimenti di valorizzazione e marketing dei territori e de...Professione Archeologo
Slide del workshop a cura di Professione Archeologo (www.professionearcheologo.it) e ArcheoPop (www.archeopop.it) durante il Forum TECHNOLOGYforALL 2016. Il workshop ha voluto di approfondire le tematiche legate alla promozione e al marketing territoriale attraverso gli strumenti digitali come componenti essenziali di una strategia mirata di valorizzazione dei beni culturali. L’uso di app e piattaforme digitali costituisce un fondamentale elemento dell’innovazione di processo che fa dei fruitori del bene culturale utenti generatori di contenuti: dai geofiltri di Snapchat al community building fino ai feedback rilasciati dai visitatori online, la nuova idea di comunicazione culturale passa attraverso la costruzione collettiva di un nuovo sentiment condiviso attorno ai beni culturali.
Building Learning Communities: Make du Jour- Fostering Creativity for Persona...Amy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities conference in Boston, MA, July 2014.
* please note the videos will not play in Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community at https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101416752034019971438
Art Is An Imagination Of Art
Imaginative Landscape
Imaginative Play
The Process of Creativity
Creative Play Observation
Imaginative Dreams
Imaginative Journeys
Benefits Of Sensory Play
An annotated version of my talk on Designing the Future from dConstruct 2015 in Brighton, delivered on 11th September. The talk explores the danger with living in a Superhero-saturated culture, lessons we can draw from Interstellar, and expanded ideas on what Metadesign, designing ways in which design can evolve by itself, can be viewed and put into practice.
Building Learning Communities: Cultivating #newliteraciesAmy Burvall
Originally presented at November Learning's Building Learning Communities in Boston, MA, July 2014. Please note that videos will not play on Slideshare but you may find them in my resource community on +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102951818296790118749
Chained to its desk in Cubicalia, The creative Brain is at its lowest point — until a mysterious stranger beckons. Together, they embark upon a journey where The Brain’s creative talents are solely needed and put to the test. The Brain discovers how to function optimally to generate ideas and solutions, and you’ll discover what fundamentals are needed to foster a supportive environment where everyone is at their creative best.
Make du Jour: Fostering Daily Creativity with Choice and VoiceAmy Burvall
originally presented as closing keynote for the Think. Create. Share conference at California State University at Fullerton in May, 2014. Please note that since this is an Apple Keynote transferred to a pdf the embedded videos will not play, though I will try to link separately.
***please note that videos will not play
Mozilla’s Doug Belshaw says that the “heart” of “digital literacies” is the Remix. Kirby Ferguson eloquently encouraged us in his TED talk to “Embrace the Remix”, because, as his enlightening documentary series reminds us, “everything is a remix”. Newspaper blackout artist and award-winning author Austin Kleon’s advice to budding creatives is to “Steal Like an Artist”, because “you are a mashup of what you let into your life”. Our students are engrossed in remix culture - they are the appropriation and recontextualization generation. Remix calls for knowledge and understanding, critical, higher-order, and design thinking, a variety of tech skills, and, frequently, collaboration and navigation in the greater media landscape. Most importantly a remix task offers students a chance to truly transform a work and create something unique - something that will contribute to their digital presence and legacy. This session is part pedagogical/philosophical and part participatory. Attendees will leave with a “goodie-bag” of resources and ideas in the form of an ever-growing G+ community to organize resources and serve as a space for sharing participant work and continuing the conversation long after the conference has ended.
The slide show offers a glimpse into the history of remix in the art world and its significance in our present media landscape. We’ll explore how different techniques of remix and mashup lend themselves to collaborative creativity and differentiation in the classroom. We’ll also look into the distinctions between “remix” and “rip-off” and discuss the ways in which to help work become transformative rather than mere copies. There will be some discussion of copyright reform, fair use, and creative commons as well. Philosophically we’ll look at the work of William Burroughs, Grandmaster Flash, and Andy Warhol as well as the more recent efforts of writer Austin Kleon, media theorist Henry Jenkins, MIT Media Lab Lifelong Kindergartener Mitch Resnick, documentary filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, and the online course DS106.
We’ll explore how social media in particular inspires recontextualization and re-imagining. And, in an era of ever-abbreviated communication, we’ll look at various ways to essentialize and synthesize into more minimalist, visual interpretations.
Writing The Science Fiction Film: Where do you get your ideas from?robgrant
The lazy way of coming up with science fiction film ideas is to take any an existing movie title and add ..in space! to it. Like High Noon ..in space! (Outland) or Jaws ..in space! (Alien). It’s become a tried and trusted method, but while it has led to the occasional classic - no-one is going to argue against Alien being a sci-fi classic - there are a lot more films in the mediocre pile.
So where do we find new ideas ripe for science fiction?
Well as you might expect they’re all around you, all you have to do is start looking, but it requires that you leave your SF prejudices at the door and open your eyes to the wider world of sci-fi storytelling.
This workshop looks at sources of new ideas, basic tools to gather and store them, explores exercises for taking an idea and turning it into a story and we’ll actually take an idea and break a story with the audience in the room.
Visitor-Centered: What Does it Mean to Walk that Talk?Peter Samis
Presented at the National Museum of Denmark to a mixed audience of Nationalmuseet curators, educators, and staff from other Danish museums. The presentation addresses responsiveness to visitor needs in developing interpretive components and gallery design. I followed the talk with a hands-on workshop in which participants wrote labels in new ways, observed visitors, and edited their galleries with visitor experience in mind. Part of a 2-day symposium organized by Mette Boritz of the National Museum.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
28. …a world in which
everyone has access
to the means of
creative expression
and the networks
supporting
artistic distribution
Henry Jenkins, MIT & USC
43. MERAKI : to do something with creativity and love;
to leave your soul in your work
44. MERAKI : to do something with creativity and love;
to leave your soul in your work
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49. Authentic learning (and
assessment) are related not only
to the knowledge students
RECEIVE,
but also to the knowledge
PRODUCTION
they can themselves
achieve.
- Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth
61. “CREATIVITY is relational.
…casting widely and disparate dots
of existing knowledge in new ways
…mine your knowledge;
know your dots”
-Bruce Nussbaum
86. New Perspective
describe to an extraterrestrial
best or worst thing that could happen?
view from diff cultures or generations
what might happen next?
89. Perspectives
Describe to an extra-terrestrial
topic:
“SMARTPHONE”
OR best/ worst/ next thing that can happen
what might happen next? (what’s in store?)
111. Edison’s word list
write 5 random words
write 1st word that comes
to mind after each word
use 2nd word as springboard
for next round (do 5 rounds)
131. Living with “presence”
to draw today is to reclaim
the dignity and private joy
of SEEING amid a culture
obsessed with
LOOKING in public
John Ruskin
165. If you want to be more
creative, innovative…
look for value in
unexpected places.
Allow for serendipity,
surprise
to astonish you
- David Culberhouse
166. “If only we could pull out
our brain
and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso
228. blackout poetry (magazine)
try a “found poem”
by layering 2 poems,
speeches, or literary texts
next to each other
extract from each
to create a new poem
IDEA!
- David Theriault
231. These “candles” are the light inspiring
your new poem or story
16 Candles
turn to page 16 in any book/magazine
copy every 16th word
until you get to 20
261. use any genre to filter another thing
Students need to understand style
in order to use proper motifs
e.g. “Jersey Shore in the style of Oscar Wilde”
300. Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol
350. expect to debrief / share / defend reasoning
try to post to the G+ under “Activities”
if you want you can tweet! #makedujour @amyburvall
Images are very welcome in addition to text
Sit near at least 1 other person
in your discipline
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359. #oodledoodle
fold paper in half
1 half: doodle what you LOVE about your course or content
1 half: doodle what frustrates you /
what you found challenging / your struggles
(2 min each side)
360. Create a VENN using rubber bands
*humour encouraged
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363. #simaglies
crowdsource photos from Instagram, camera roll
*swap phones to see other camera rolls?
OR use your own
Find 1 as an analogy for what you do/ how you teach /
teaching in general
(10 min)
364.
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366. #30 (9!) Circle Challenge
draw 9 semi even circles (fill paper)
*normally done with 30 pre-drawn circles
in time given, fill the circles with as many things as you can
think of that “are” a circle
extra challenge: try to relate to your curriculum OR
Shawnigan life
(5 min)
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369. 3 dimensional visualization of:
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible
370. OREO Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object)
*if you need more you can partner with someone
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict some
concept you teach / advertise your content
you may change the Oreo any way you like!
1,2,3 photos or a short video
(15 min)
374. Use an everyday object
to create something else
OR
use one of the blot pages
375. Ironic T-Shirt
alone or with a partner
draw a t-shirt shape to fill the page
think of concepts, vocabulary + people in your discipline
try to make a pun / play on words / portmanteau
illustrate as appropriate
(the image can be the funny part too)
(10-15 min)
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379. Photo Challenge Calendar
with partners from your discipline, plan 1 month of photo
challenges (shoot for 30 ideas)
*try the silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be technically easy (low barrier) but
mentally stimulating, reinforcing the concept
(10 min)
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382. Create a Band
meet with 1-3 other people in your same discipline
(20 min)
Band Name= Title of Wikipedia article regarding some
aspect of your curriculum
Album Title: Quote or pieces of quote from someone key
to your discipline (famous ruler, philosopher, artist, scientist
383. Create a Band
Song Titles: relate to a concept you are teaching
(20 min)
Cover Art= Use search terms related to your subject area
OR a random Flickr or Instagram search (#tagged)
http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
OR try 5 card Flickr
Produce using an app, Photoshop, Gimp, PicMonkey
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388. Colour Palette
Use ColourLovers site (http://www.colourlovers.com/ )
if you can
*if not, just make it up
Think of a concept, idea, person, etc. from your discipline
assign a palette to them + justify your reasoning
(10 min)
390. Bio: stage in a process i.e. meiosis, mitosis,
cellular respiration
Chem: palette for each major family on the periodic table
P.E.: color coded system for tracking achievement
Art or Poli Sci: Movements
Explaining Intentions
is the Key
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393. Design for the 5 Senses
REMIX an existing lesson
Try to appeal to all 5 senses:
Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Smell
Using a Brainstorm Web helps
(10 min)
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396. Plan a VlogMash
in the style of 50 People 1 Q
with partners from your discipline or alone
what question could you pose for students to answer
and create a “vlog mash”?
think deep, open-ended provocations, but ones that
require short, poignant responses
(5 min)
401. Beatle-fy Your Course
alone or with a partner from the same discipline
use any Beatle song as the base
(find the lyrics + use to figure out rhyme scheme + meter
Try to write at least 1 verse BASED on
some concept you teach
(15 min)
408. #4wordpedagogy OR
#lessandmore
based on @jessifer (Jesse Stommel)’s probe and mine…
use the constraints of 4 words
OR use Less_________More__________
What are your thoughts about good teaching?
shifts in education? what learning should look like?
(5 min)