Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

Remix/Mash-Up Culture

7, Feb 2010

This morning, I watched a fascinating video on YouTube. It came to me in the form of a tweet from fellow educator Joyce Valenza. The video draws inspiration from a Ted.com talk by Larry Lessig about the nature of creativity and copyright law and looks at the way our culture uses mash-ups and remixing to [...]

Finding Music in Green Places

18, Jan 2010

Diego Stocco – Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo. I love happening across some unexpected and delightful corner of creativity. This weekend, as I shuffled through a couple dozen websites using the discover tool StumbleUpon, I came upon a video of a musician and composer named Diego Stocco. Now, I love music [...]

Artistry Through Technology

16, Jan 2010

Lately, the DreamExtreme class has come across some very fun and interesting technology tools that could lend themselves to learning projects. Students have already used some in class work, and have only just begun to explore others. I’m including links and screenshots in this post to give you a launch pad to do some exploration [...]

Playing For Change: Peace Through Music

8, Aug 2009

StandByMe Sometimes, hard work and a brilliant idea can weave together to make a thing of beauty. Read about a wonderful project that unites public musicians from around the world.

Projects Galore!

12, Mar 2009

This has been an amazing week for our class. We’ve been wrapping up our Persuasive Communication unit with the media production phase. Students have been working collaboratively to create a multimedia presentation of some sort to promote the product, service, or business they created. They have conceived, written and created PowerPoint shows, audio podcasts, and [...]


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