An Introduction to User Experience Design with Kendra Cunningham

An Introduction to User Experience Design with Kendra Cunningham

From children’s lunch boxes to online learning platforms for educators, user-centered design informs the products and services we engage with everyday. Kendra Cunningham, ISKME’s User Experience Designer, works on improving the user experience of ISKME’s OER Commons...
Unleashing Innovation in Teachers

Unleashing Innovation in Teachers

“In the future I am going to do something that scares me more often.” “In the future I am going to do something that scares me more often.”   -Prior Big Ideas Fest 2014 ParticipantReflections like the one above are what keep me coming back every year as a...
Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv

Turn on, Tune in, Drop into Improv

We’ve built in “improv”–the improvisational method of achieving cooperation–into the DNA of Action Collabs that we offer at ISKME. Most recently, a writer from San Francisco’s KQED Mind/Shift called out our use of improv at our annual Big Ideas Fest....
5 Questions for Ashanti Branch

5 Questions for Ashanti Branch

Talk about Big Ideas Fest success stories. Ashanti Branch walked off the stage at Big Ideas Fest 2014 and onto the stage at Sundance Film Festival in early 2015, where he premiered his documentary, The Mask You Live In. Talk about Big Ideas Fest success stories....