I’ve been meaning to try out the recent addition to the Mozilla Webmaker tools, something called AppMaker, and Melissa Techman’s recent presentation at the K12Online Conference spurred me on. The AppMaker is designed to teach both simple and complex skills around designing an app, which can be viewed online and on mobile devices that run […]
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The Random Connector Generator
For the entire month, we’ve been collecting and posting daily ideas for making connections as an offshoot of the Connected Courses. The aim was to find fun ways to get folks to collaborate with each other, modeled on the ever-wonderful Daily Create from DS106. Our Daily Connect ends today, but really, nothing ever ends on […]
Girls, Gaming and Gender Stereotypes
I’ve shared this Lego Gender Remix site before but it is so powerful in what it does that it is always worth sharing out again. I used this site yesterday in my class of sixth graders as we begin diving into the concepts of our Digital Life unit, in which we explore technology and media […]
Poetry Analysis with Meme Creation
I had the good fortune to sit in on a workshop at the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and the topic was how to use memes for literary analysis, with a look at poetry in particular. The presenter was a middle school teacher, Jacqueline Desmarais, and she had us looking at memes and then using them to […]
Inflection Points (on trust and networks and connections)
You want to know a beautiful sound? It’s when a classroom of young writers are given “freewrite” time and they work diligently on whatever it is they choose to write about for 20 minutes straight. And I write right along with them. Yesterday, as I continue to mull over the themes of trust and networks […]
Slice of Life: A #CCourses Folding Story
(This post is both for the Slice of Life writing with Two Writing Teachers and for the Connected Courses. It’s all about intersections). One of the main things that gets me interested in online learning spaces is the possibilities for collaboration. All too often, it seems that the online experience is little more than a replica […]
Working Out a Song as Media Project
I am not sure if this works, but I took a new version of a new song that I shared out last week (which Terry, and Scott, and Simon all remixed into Zeega media productions) and went into Popcorn Maker to make my own media version. I wanted to move away from distinct, concrete images, […]
Soundscape Story: From Sunrise to Sunset
I’ve been challenging myself to do something around the theme of “light” this week at the Making Learning Connected MOOC, using only audio to tell a story. I failed at it many times. It turns out that telling a story completely with sounds is pretty difficult, even with the experience I had doing this with […]
And One Last Cubed Version of The Empty Comic Collaboration
Here is my last share of the remix comic collaboration, although I will keep the dialogue form open for anyone who still wants to to give the activity a try. Here, I put all of the remixed into a story cube. Just .. well … because. (Note: it works best if you go to full […]
We Don’t Have the Right Words for What We Do
(word cloud created from G+ discussion referenced below) I suspect that if I told some of my computer programming friends about what the Making Learning Connected MOOC was up to this past Make Cycle with the “hack your writing” theme, they would get a chuckle, and tell me, “That’s not hacking.” Remixing poetry, shaping odds […]