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Forgive Me for Tooting My Own Horn, but Toot Toot.
Creative takeaways from the coolest stuff I found this week.
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We Can Dance If We Want To
Creative takeaways from the coolest things I’ve found this week.
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No Tricks, Just a Literary Treat
Creative takeaways from the coolest stuff I found this week.
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Late October Vibes
Creative takeaways from the coolest things I’ve found this week.
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From Kitty Hawk to Jumbo Jets: The Creative Journey
Creative takeaways from the coolest things I’ve found this week.
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Bleep, Bloop: AI and Creativity
Thoughts on creativity and artificial intelligence from this past week.
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Pumpkin Spice
Some of the coolest stuff from this past week.
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More like "Fastember"
Some of the coolest stuff from this past week.
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Fail Your Way To Creativity
Failure is not the opposite of success.
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Your Brain Doesn’t Want You To Be Creative
Unlock Your Creativity: How to Break Free from Your Brain’s Natural Desire for Order
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Find The Whitespace
Don’t Let the Small Details Blind You to Greater Possibilities
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What Brainstorming Is Actually Good For
Think of Brainstorming as Practice: Preparing Your Mind for Creative Breakthroughs.
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Creatively Stuck? Add Constraints
The Paradox of Choice: How Constraints Can Unlock Creativity.
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Atomic Habits
A couple of takeaways that I gathered from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits.
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Project Based Grading
Conforming to a traditional grading system in a project based curriculum is one of the biggest instructional challenges in teaching entrepreneurship authentically.
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Customer Conversations
A real customer conversation that I held with an acquaintance to model the MVP Experimentation phase of an entrepreneurship curriculum.
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Low Poly Portrait
In this post, I share one of my favorite graphic design projects – the Low Poly Portrait. It’s a student favorite too.
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Minimum Viable Product Tips
What follows are some tips concerning minimum viable product design in high school entrepreneurship. The Minimum Viable Product Continuum All MVPs fall somewhere on the continuum between nearly useless and completely validating. If your students’ MVP only measures “vanity metrics,” it’s likely closer to the left side of the continuum than the right. It’s easy…
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How I Became the Google Slides Templates Guy
In this post, I I reflect upon my experience in the Ed Tech game, and examine just how I came to be the Google Slides Templates guy (a title I made up).
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The Adjacent Possible
What’s a founder to do when they’re having trouble coming up with the perfect idea for a business? Consider the “adjacent possible.”
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How To Make A GIF
In the video below, I demonstrate how to make a GIF using Adobe Photoshop.
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The Sweet Spot
What follows is the framework I use with my students when vetting different business ideas during the ideation process.
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Problems, Passions, and Tribes
There’s nothing that will better prepare you to lead your students through the ideation phase of building a business than having led instruction in that area once before. Unfortunately, that’s not pos
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The Not-Adobe Creative Suite
If you spend a lot of time producing content on the web, there’s a strong chance the Adobe Creative Suite comprises many, if not most of, the tools in your toolkit.
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Why Educators Probably Shouldn't Use Minecraft In Their Classrooms
Why you might not want to use Minecraft in your classroom.
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What if Professional Development Wasn't Horrible?
Too many teachers cringe at the thought of attending professional development, but what if PD wasn’t horrible? What might that look like?
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Should Students Really Never Use Wikipedia?
What follows is a selection from my eBook single Teaching The Research Paper.
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Should Students Really Never Use Wikipedia?
What follows is a selection from my eBook single Teaching The Research Paper.
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Instructional Technology Done Right
Increasingly, I seem to run across articles whose message is “don’t use technology solely for the sake of using technology.” What I see less often are examples of what well executed technology integration actually looks like. Here’s one such example: Let’s Peel Back the Layers First When you hear folks talking about not using technology for technology’s…
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If Homework Assignments Were BuzzFeed Articles
I wondered what it would look like if BuzzFeed named homework assignments instead of linkbait blog posts. Here’s what I came up with:
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What About Trust?
I love podcasts. They’re like reading, but without all of the work.
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Stop Forcing Your Students To Blog, Do This Instead
In this post, I’m going to make a case AGAINST student blogging and suggest, what I believe to be, a superior alternative instead.
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Sell Your By-Products
I first stumbled upon the notion of selling your by-products when I read Rework by the guys from Basecamp.