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Going Google At Home, A Reflection of my GTA Video Process
For the past week, I’ve been trying to brainstorm my GTA video and thinking about how to best tell a story in 1 minute. I sat down and wrote a script, recorded a movenote and sent it to a colleague. It...
View ArticleBraeden’s Easter Bunny: A New Tackk
If you follow any of my other social feeds, you know that Braeden made a new Bunny puppet for his mother. So, naturally I used TACKK, an amazing digital storytelling tool to share the story. I love...
View ArticleWhen the World Is Your Classroom Part 2
I’m sitting here watching the kid problem solve his way around creating a stage for his puppets. There are boxes, baskets, shoes and just about anything to hold the stage up. I’m not helping him. My...
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How To Be More Creative
If you want to be more creative, you have to toss out the instructions and just go! – Braeden Today in the car, Braeden expressed his plan to create an animatronic puppet. Like any adult would, I...
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Don’t Be the Creativity Police, Sometimes Dogs are Yellow
Our little “in house” creator, Braeden is working on a new puppet. Inspired by Steve Axtell‘s Shaggy Mountain Dog Puppet, Braeden decided to make a shaggy dog…a yellow one. So, he started his process...
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30 Days of Learning Day 2: Collaborative Learning with Photoshop, Youtube and...
What did you learn today? Today, I learned to never underestimate the creativity of a kid with a vision. Ok, to be fair…I knew this already, but today’s point of view was further amplified by the fact...
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The Undefined “MakerSpace”
By definition, “making” means constructing, building or putting things together. This isn’t new. Yet, we approach the idea of “making” as an entirely new thing. We even have a “space” for it now which...
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A Boy, A Lion and A Google Form
The other day Braeden decided that he wanted to involve “twitter” in his puppet decisions. As a kid who thrives on collaboration, making a Google form to share seemed like the obvious choice. Those...
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Storytelling with TechSmith’s App Show and Minecraft
One of these days, Techsmith’s App Show won’t be in free beta and I’ll be sad. For the record, I’m pretty sure that this nifty storytelling tool wasn’t made for education but that didn’t stop plenty of...
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Sparking Wonder One Idea At a Time
Braeden and his entry into the TCEA cardboard mascot challenge For over a year, I thought that my nephew found a love for puppetry after watching the muppet movie which then led to a binge night of...
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Braeden the Puppet Maker, Artist, Writer and Now Performer
A few weeks ago, I was in a meeting and missed a ton of calls from my nephew. He finally sent this message… “I called to see if you could cut one of the songs or basically all of them because we only...
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