We had a great Halloween party at home this evening with neighbors and friends, and enjoyed the lovely cool (but not cold) fall weather which was perfect for evening trick-or-treating. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the evening. …
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Favorite Halloween Photos
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Sisters perform (dance) at football halftime
http://learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org/2008/10/11/sisters-perform-dance-at-football-halftime/This week we attended our first Edmond Memorial High School football game on Thursday night. Both sister and little sister went to a Saturday cheerleading camp last weekend, and this week’s home football game halftime show was their opportunity to show what they’d learned. …
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Now is the time to invest
http://learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org/2008/10/10/now-is-the-time-to-invest/I am not a financial expert, but what I do know tells me now is the time to invest in stocks. As panicked people flee the market, opportunities open for others. My stock recommendation today is Chesapeake Energy. Natural gas power will be a big part of our energy future in the next 20-30 years, before hydrogen power becomes ubiquitous. …
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity
http://www.speedofcreativity.orgI dearly wish my own children were able to share the excitement and motivating power of online digital storytelling and educational networking with their classmates at the public school they attend here in Oklahoma. We’ve told their teachers about our family learning blog and forwarded one VoiceThread my eight year old made several weeks ago as part of her book study activities for Charlotte’s Web. These at-home digital publishing and sharing activities have been basically ignored by their teachers, not because they
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Rachel’s Haircut VoiceThread exceeds 15,000 views
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/10/rachels-haircut-...I dearly wish my own children were able to share the excitement and motivating power of online digital storytelling and educational networking with their classmates at the public school they attend here in Oklahoma. We’ve told their teachers about our family learning blog and forwarded one VoiceThread my eight year old made several weeks ago as part of her book study activites for Charlotte’s Web. These at-home digital publishing and sharing activities have been basically ignored by their teachers, not because they
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Exploring, Learning and Communicating with Wordle
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/08/exploring-learni...of analyzing digital texts at school this year using Wordle? I doubt it. None-the-less, he SHOULD be introduced to this powerful tool, and so should every other learner with fingertips on the keyboard this month. Here’s a Wordle I created using the RSS feed for blog posts by Alexander on our family learning blog, “Learning Signs.” Could a tool like Wordle and a digital writing environment like a moderated blog be at all relevant as my son seeks to develop his own
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NECC 2009 proposals are in!
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/10/09/necc-2009-propos...show how a family learning blog can be created to complement assigned homework and in- class assignments at school, and provide a rich digital portfolio of student learning with extends beyond a single school year. Our family learning blog is active on http://learningsigns.speedofcreativity.org. Outline: This session will be presented primarily by my two children, 11 year old Alexander (5th grade) and 8 year old Sarah (3rd grade). They will explain how they use our family learning blog to post text, create hyperlinks, and embed interactive
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A worthless worksheet and a voluntary VoiceThread
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/10/07/a-worthless-work...about what we did to create this. I estimate we spent about 30 minutes planning this together (mainly at dinner while we were eating) and 15 minutes actually recording and creating the VoiceThread. I first asked Sarah about writing a post on our family learning blog about Charlotte’s Web. She has never seen the movie, and so far they’ve just read the first three chapters of the book in school. I love many of E.B. White’s books (especially “Trumpet of the Swan
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No Ning networks for students under age 13, Monitored ePals email Accounts
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/08/24/no-ning-networks...for years but had never setup a monitored/moderated email account for a student before. Today I did for our three kids, although I’m sure it will be awhile before our almost five year old wants to use hers. (She’s writing sentences now, so it might not be long!) To create one or more moderated email accounts, simply click CREATE MONITORED ACCOUNTS in your ePals mail window: By default, created accounts have
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A family evening media triple play
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/23/a-family-evening...in advance, but each of our children ended up publishing (with help) a media file tonight after dinner. Our eight year old attended a theater camp for the past two weeks in Texas which culminated in two performances of “Schoolhouse Rocks Jr.” and recorded a VoiceThread about her experiences. She also sang excerpts from several of the songs, which was a real treat! Our four year old saved some of her money (80 cents) from doing work around the house in the past few months to make a donation to
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Moving at the Speed of Creativity
http://www.speedofcreativity.org– It’s not often you have an opportunity to introduce your own child to something as powerful and potentially life-changing as hyperlinked writing and blogging! Alexander as written previously on Learning Signs, of course, but I sense there is a BIG difference between a website he shares and has relatively less ownership and “stake in” and one (in this case, “String and Me”) in which he has a 100% stake and 100% control. He is fired up! It
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The benefits of unplugging
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/06/09/the-benefits-of-..., for example.) “Digital discipline” is extremely important in our modern era, however, and although he did not use those words that was my paraphrase of Dr. King’s message from his speech in 1968. I named our family learning blog “Learning Signs” because I like the metaphor of looking for tangible “signs” of change. What are the signs in your own life, during vacation times, that you have truly unplugged from media and technology? Disconnection from most technologies (not my propane stove
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Podcast244: Stories of Life on the High Seas by Jonathan Gayton in Perth, Australia to Oklahoma Over Skype
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/04/11/podcast244-stori...Western Australia Maritime Training Centre (Perth) Sue Waters’ blog: Mobile Technology in TAFE Sue Waters on Twitter Six Le Ponant pirates captured (11 April 2008) Malacca Strait Pirates - National Geographic Magazine (October 2007) Skype Learning Signs post of questions for Jonathan Gayton (0ur family learning blog) Call Recorder (the program I used to record this Skype videoconference) Subscribe to “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” weekly podcasts!
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