Creativity

Creativity

Creativity is the simple act of looking at things differently and trying to come up with something new. It is like turning the kaleidoscope and seeing a myriad of different configurations.

Think creatively about the lessons that you prepare for your students. You can teach the same content but in new and innovative ways using technology.


 * Cultivate Creativity
 * Sir Ken Robinson -- Creativity means you can make mistakes

Tools for Creativity

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 * Tell the Story
 *  Chrysanthemum
 * Chrysanthemum with a twist
 * What Activities Do You Ask Your Students to Do? Try these.
 * Brainstorming
 * Concept Maps
 * Graphing
 * Questioning
 * Why?
 * How come?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So What?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What if?
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Visual
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Auditory
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tactile
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creativity Through Play (Games)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smart Board Games for Group Learning
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lesson Toolkit -- create games to play with students on the Smartboard. Video
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|SmartNotebook Express] -- Create Smartnotebook activities online.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;">Games created by others
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Cr<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">eate Games
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Game Zone]
 * <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Class Tools Tutorial 1l Creating a Game A Game Used in a Classroom
 * <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Samples

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Web Link to the same game. Addition Game


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">[|Play math games]

Programming Languages & Game Design: • MIT Media Lab’s [|Scratch] • Google’s [|App Inventor for Android] (not developed for kids, but based on Scratch) • Microsoft’s [|Kodu Game Lab] • Sony’s [|LittleBigPlanet] • Electronic Art’s [|Create] • [| LEGO Universe] Arts and Crafts • MIT’s [|Never-Ending Drawing Machine] • MIT Tangible Media Group’s [| I/O Brush] • [|Alison Lewis’] work in Switch Craft Literacy & Storytelling • [|The Electric Company] video mashup tool • [|Disney Create], powered by [|Kerpoof] • [|Jabberstamp] • [|International Children’s Digital Library’s][|StoryKit] app for iPhone • Cooney Center Prizes finalist, [|Launchpad Toys’][|Toontastic] for the iPad (Fall launch)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kids Creative Tools

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mixbook
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Make Flash Cards
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Collaborative Creative Storytelling -- StoryBird
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Create Your Own Book Lulu
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Dr. Seuss Create a Book]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Published Books -- Create online -- free and pay
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Picnik -- Photp Editing online
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Zoom It -- See what it can do for a picture.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Additional Creativity Tools]


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use the Edmodo site to list and discuss ideas, projects, and technologies you have used to cultivate your own creativity and inspire your student's creativity.