The Streetlight Effect and the Drama of Play and Infinite Game

Scott Glass was messing about with the #edjoy twitter xtravaganza the other night. I suggested a collaborative poem on hackpad to celebrate the #enjoyment of poetry. He, Kevin Hodgson and I played … Source: impedagogy.com Having a repertoire of moves and tools makes all kinds of adjacencies possible.  Note this improv from the other night. … Continue reading The Streetlight Effect and the Drama of Play and Infinite Game

A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us

Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us

A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us

Canva Design School Blog One of my favorite brushes for my digital palette is Canva. I like it because it is free to use, easily shared, remixable, a user-friendly joy to use, and so very handy. I have always thought of Canva as one of those perfect hothouses for creative work– any age and skill level. … Continue reading A Month of Creative Ideas? Join Us

Canva Design School Blog

Canva’s Design School has everything you need to learn design. Check out our daily design articles, interactive tutorials and awesome tips. Source: designschool.canva.com This really is a fine, beginner’s design school. It is free, it affords creative as well as ordinary use, and, as a tool, it is easy to make the emphasis on the … Continue reading Canva Design School Blog

Don’t Just Derive | Engender and Thrive

Just finished reading Tania Sheko’s blog post about Pinterest as well as viewed her SlideShare presentation below. Go ahead and check it. I’ll wait. Pinterest presentation Mihaela Brysha and Tania Sheko (curriculum day 2015) (1) from Tania Sheko You can tell she has thought about Pinterest and its thoughtful uses for quite awhile.  Sometimes you just know … Continue reading Don’t Just Derive | Engender and Thrive

Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality

On the glorious “difficulty of combining the real with the decidedly un-real.” Long before poet Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911– Source: www.brainpickings.org I do believe that this “pretending life into reality” is very much what visualizing and feedforwarding is all about.  For individuals it is about self-actualizing or in more spiritual terms is about re-discovering … Continue reading Grandmother’s Glass Eye: Elizabeth Bishop on How Poetry Pretends Life into Reality

Whaddya Mean, You’re Closed?

I started the morning in control. Internet filters up, project in mind, ready to get to ‘done’. I wanted to work on my Scoop.It accounts because I have had some activity this week and felt duty bound to find some more good stuff for my peoples. I found some classic linkbait in my Scoop.It content … Continue reading Whaddya Mean, You’re Closed?

The 13th Donut or Gift from the Gods

This post was inspired by a comment on my other blog by Joe Murphy. Tweedy Impertinence If you click in the box above you will see Joe’s post and my annotation of Joe’s post, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me”. Not sure, but I think Joe came to my post via #YouShow15 and I really wanted to reciprocate or … Continue reading The 13th Donut or Gift from the Gods