Details: "Film for NZ Book Council; Produced by Colenso BBDO; Animated by Andersen M Studio"
Thanks to Neil Gaimon for this lovely tweet gem:
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Details: "Film for NZ Book Council; Produced by Colenso BBDO; Animated by Andersen M Studio"
Thanks to Neil Gaimon for this lovely tweet gem:
[...]Post written a couple weeks earlier on my papa/family blog.
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Just a 1/2 day here on campus on this lovely late-October Friday.
Homecoming is here. Classes ended at lunch. Life is good.
Beckett -- back on campus in his preschool for the first time in a full week -- came over to [...]
Post written a couple weeks earlier on my papa/family blog.
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Just a 1/2 day here on campus on this lovely late-October Friday.
Homecoming is here. Classes ended at lunch. Life is good.
Beckett -- back on campus in his preschool for the first time in a full week -- came over to [...]
Mmm. Perhaps rapid, network-inspired change -- even in traditional markets -- is possible.
Just noticed the following update in my Twitter feed (thanks to @smartinez' retweet) not long after blogging about it myself:
Note:
Even though things may appear to be resolved, [...]
Mmm. Perhaps rapid, network-inspired change -- even in traditional markets -- is possible.
Just noticed the following update in my Twitter feed (thanks to @smartinez' retweet) not long after blogging about it myself:
Note:
Even though things may appear to be resolved, [...]
Been kicking around the idea of jump-staring "think:lab" once again.
Been nearly a year since I had the site shut down for a couple of reasons (focusing more on my classroom, less on consulting; being a father of another new child; time; etc.). And while I had hoped to wait [...]
Been kicking around the idea of jump-staring "think:lab" once again.
Been nearly a year since I had the site shut down for a couple of reasons (focusing more on my classroom, less on consulting; being a father of another new child; time; etc.). And while I had hoped to wait [...]
The Question
Dan Meyer recently asked me the question.
If anyone else was curious: yes, I am. Effective now.
If anyone is curious why, please get in touch. I'd be happy to chew the fat.
Shifting Priorities
Otherwise, it was just time. Life moves on. Priorities shift.
And certainly other voices [...]
3 days: my students return from summer break as my 2nd year (back) begins.
7 months: my wife/son/I will welcome yet another member to our family.
Now: it's only appropriate that now is the time to finally re-align the needle.
Thank you: for the connections, the lessons, and the vision along [...]
Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Making It Easy for Santa This Time
Thanks to a QR Code generator, my kid gets his very own QR code this 12/25.
Suppose that means he'll be stealing papa's cell phone for legit reasons now that he'll need it to confirm that this actually reads "Beckett [...]
Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Fast and Furious Connections
Over the last 24 hours, I've been blessed with a fast and furious flurry of gracious messages coming in from all corners of my networked globe.
While I'm not at liberty to explain the backstory until this coming Wednesday morning -- when I'll go [...]
Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Putting Some 3D Funk in His A, B, C's
Rummaging around the family couch for enough quarters or a loose double sawbuck to purchase a single copy of this alphabetic-wonder pop-up book:
You Need a Card Catalog to Find Anything
Can't [...]
Sunday post: "Parenthood P.O.V."
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But Ain't It Just Marketing?
Call me a design snob-geek. Or whatever comes to mind.
But if my kiddo (or any future kiddos) went to to a school that had design chops like this little kiddo academic research center -- of all things -- does, I'd be very proud. [...]
Sunday post: "Fatherhood P.O.V."
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Watching Him Closely
Its in his eyes.
Even @ 23 mos, everything the world can offer is found in my kid's eyes.
Absorbed, refracted, re-built, questioned, adored, challenged.
Everything. Captured in Beckett's eyes.
And I spend every second in his presence trying to figure out what he's just [...]
Saturday Post: "Inspired School Design"
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Visuals with a New Intent
I was delighted to have recently discovered photographer Monica Nouwens who is giving the visual study of 'school design' in Los Angeles a shot in the arm via her "monicanovolumethree" blog these days.
From California [...]
Friday Post: "Big Picture" Inspiration"
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Follow the Old Skool Cheetohs Trail
Much like the police who recently followed the Cheetohs trail of empty snack packs to find the trio of teens who broke into a vending machine at a local community center (and later were caught at one of their [...]
Wednesday post: "The Student|Teacher Dynamic"
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Circling Back
Every teacher who has been at it for a few years has at least one story of a student that circles back over time to say hello. Perhaps that now-adult student shares a few stories about how a particular class project or blackboard talk made [...]
That Pesky Cheshire Cat
Seems that the Cat's enigmatic response to Alice's "How do I get there?" question has a way of being correct however it catches your ear. After all...
...if you don't know where you're going, any path will get you there.
Taking Stock
After [...]
Once Upon A School
Most TED fans -- who also dig the world of classrooms and teachers, especially those with edu-blogs -- have already taken note of 2008 TED Prize winner Dave Eggers' "Once Upon a School" challenge wish. Put simply:
He called upon every adult to bring their time, [...]
3D Stars-n-Stripes Glasses
Anyone who spends even a little bit of time in the edu-blogosphere eventually begins to realize that we Yanks tend to assume that the world of education must revolve around the planet of American.
Ain't This Good Enough?
Sure, we love our "global" projects and love to spout off [...]
A Shoe Company, Right?
A current Adidas campaign (highlighting their new eco collection) caught my eye in a recent Trend Central mailing:
"While this is an extreme form of environmental activism, expect it to become an increasingly aspirational activity as young people are looking to have a cool experience while doing good."
Just Pick Their [...]
The Big Top is Open
For better or worse, I now have a functional circus tent that covers just about everything I'm doing in this wacky digital world.
Thanks to my ed-tech-design gal, Kate Olson, for walking me through some of the scary parts the last few days. Hope [...]
Prowling for My Benefit
Man, do I love having a cool design cat like Ethan prowling around the planet's hidden gem alleyways for visual-wonders...that I can cherry-pick on occasion.
The Fella Has Mad Game
Sure, I'd like to be as savvy as he is re: noticing design everywhere he turns, [...]
Time. But Who's Keeping Track?
The only problem I'll have this coming year in massaging the 'hero journey' construct with my students to help kick up the heat on the traditional Brit Lit motif will be fitting a lifetime of content into 9 months.
Oh, and all dem crazy projects, too.
My [...]
Pssst: Video-Head Alert!
Did you hear what the CoverItLive (real time blogging) just announced?
Our users can now integrate LIVE video from Qik, Mogulus and uStream directly into their CoveritLive live blogs.
It is an extremely simple process (much like our existing YouTube integration) that [...]
Out of the Design Loop
Sure, a guy snoozes a little bit. And apparently he loses all street cred with dem pesky school architect types. Sheesh.
Funny how just a single year away from having a front row seat at the center of the school design world has [...]
Dear Web 2.0:
There used to be a time when video and real words on digital highwires weren't battling for the universe in pseudo-deity fist-to-cuffs fashion.
There was a time when these two 1's-n-0's ninjas weren't fighting for our collective souls like a couple of Dante's adolescent angels left tossing insults on [...]
Part 1: Nobody Puts Twitter in the Corner!
With 77 inspired comments (and counting) over there at Will's blogging joint, this Twitter-esque debate seems to be sparking something primal that resides deep within the veins of our collective human experience.
What precisely is it about this Twitter that causes folks [...]
Table of Contents:
A colleague of mine called me recently:
"Dude, did you know that all of the furniture in your classroom is out in the hallway?"
Result: a temporary gulping on my part, followed by his telling me the maintenance team had done a monster carpet cleaning for me. Ah!
As I [...]
Note: DK and his lovely personal side project -- gnatgnat -- is 100% to blame for my latest love affair (aka video crafting crush) on the Hillman Curtis team.
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Let's say you're just aching to grab the attention of creative students into your learning institution. The typical branding [...]
Just because I'm on a self-imposed "Twitter-sabbatical" doesn't mean the world cares. DM's still arrive in all their 140-character glory in my email inbox, making it hard-to-impossible to really get off the micro-bloggin' bandwagon.
To be neighborly, thought I'd hit "reply" in DM land without feeling as if I'm [...]
Context for this post:
Thanks to Kate Olson (and gang) over at the collaborative This Mommy Gig blog, I've joined a few proud papa's offering their 2cents worth, too.
My second post -- just published today -- explores what life behind the camera (or [...]
While I wasn't able to make it down to San Antonio for this year's NECC conference, I was pleased to see that ISTE had finally released a wide range of speaker/workshop videos. What a gift, right?
Real content...
...and not a single mile of interstate or airport travel to [...]
NOTE: this post is inspired by my kiddo and having followed Will Richardson's Twitter update link about a 'trend' of "social media resumes" over to the land of Chris Penn's "Financial Aid Podcast", a sight I hang out in on occasion.
NOTE: go to Penn's SMR page [...]
Early this morning (before 7am, while his mama slept soundly since she had early morning duty yesterday), Beckett and I hung out on the front steps of my in-law's home in the western suburbs of Chicago.
Papa had his much-needed coffee. Beckett had his sippy cup and stringed cheese. Life [...]
Ma & Pa 'computer' storefronts always catch my attention. Rare finds, but somehow every community has one in spite of the way the emerging tech consumer world seems to work these days.
Had to laugh at the ironic homemade sign on the door.
Sure it is simply [...]
Been hanging out in a lovely corner of Small-town, USA (Sheboygan, WI, to be exact) lately for the 4th of July festivities. Just about as far away from my Twitter-thinkin'-about-education life as one could imagine shy of being on a multi-day Appalachian Trail solo. Or so I thought.
In addition to [...]
Every once in awhile, life will hand you a delightful life/learning surprise out of the thinest of the bluest of air.
Such was the case recently when a mentor of mine (who sponsored me for the Ft. Worth Rotary and was a regular companion of mine at Ft. Worth Harvard Business [...]
Maybe it is just me, but the its v. its debate always bugs me. Even today, long after I took my last grammar quiz. Even as a grown man. Even as a professional English teacher supposedly spot-on about that sort of gig.
One of my many professionally ironic Achilles heels, [...]
"Happy 4th of July", y'all Americano, beach chair & cheap fireworks types!
For the rest of you: "Happy Summer", no matter where you claim a view.
Now, go put away that Twitter'd RSS feed update and hug a kiddo.
An epiphany, of sorts, although to be perfectly frank, it wasn't until a few minutes later, maybe 73 characters later, that the actual tie-in to education crossed his mind.
Don't let him fool ya:
My latest near-celebrity follower in question, the one that sparked the whole [...]
So, let me get this straight.
After several years of edu-conferences, I think I finally hear you.
Get Plurk'd, Google Doc lesson plans into a wiki or whatever that Moogle thing is, and UStream edu-blogger meet-ups talking about edu-blogger meet-ups all on the tax payer conference fee dime.
That's some [...]
Scene: My classroom yesterday.
Watching/listening to live UStream of Chris Lehmann's Understanding By Design presentation (down there at the big San Antonio boat show) played out across my white board as I try to map out my goals for this coming year's 10th graders.
Can't help but find myself [...]
Via DK, the following mind candy comes from the beautiful mind of Hugh McLeod. Wonder when we edublogger/educator types will grasp this for real.
Couldn't help but spit up a little coffee this morning when a Twitter nudge sent me to Scott Mcleod's blog where he posed the following OMG! premise:
Okay, let’s think about this for next year…
Famous Blogger wants to spend time at NECC conversing with / learning from friends (who might [...]
The older I get, the more I dig cartography. Especially D.I.Y. maps that hint at great stories evolving digitally across oceans:
MediaSnackers pro bono project -- aka the Pacific Youth project -- this year was a five week online social media training course for over twenty youth leaders in Tonga and Papua [...]
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