Creativity

= Creativity and Innovation =

NETS*S 1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
 * apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 * create original works as a means of personal or group expression.
 * use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
 * identify trends and forecast possibilities.

Teachers must provide students with opportunities to think creatively and then to act on those creative thoughts to develop original solutions to authentic problems. Students need opportunities to explore and play to stimulate creative thinking. This is important for teachers as well! Technology provides many tools to support creative thinking and innovation and provides students with multiple means of expression, a key principal of the Universal Design for Learning.


 * Video**: [|Do Schools Kill Creativity?]

Intel Teach Elements: Collaboration in the Digital Classroom Module 4 Lesson 1: Effective Digital Communicatio **Student Creativity Tools:** >
 * Glogster
 * Animoto
 * Prezi
 * Voicethread
 * [|Professor Garfield's Toon Book Reader and Cartoon Maker,] [|Comic Labs] and [|Comic Labs Extreme]
 * [|Kerpoof]
 * [|My Avatar Editor]
 * Voki
 * [[file:PhotoStoryTipSheet.doc]]
 * [|Comic Creator]
 * Tarheel Reader
 * Audacity Download
 * FreePlay Music

Apps:

 * [[file:Sonic Pics Lite Tipsheet.doc]]
 * [[file:Story Kit Tipsheet.doc]]
 * [[file:Post Card.doc]]
 * Animoto


 * Additional Resources: **
 * [|Photo Ops: Ten Innovative Ways to use Visual Media]
 * Digital Storytelling Tools
 * [|NETS Implementation: Creativity and Innovation]
 * Transformation and Technology: A New Way of Learning
 * Thinkfinity: 21st Century Skills
 * Voicethread 4 Education
 * Edutopia
 * Intel's Thinking Tools
 * Fostering Student Creativity and Responsibility While Blogging
 * Digital Storytelling Tools

Suggested Uses in the Classroom:
Kerpoof 1.Students create a story to review vocabulary and create conversation in Spanish. You can copy and paste text from MS Word so that the correct Spanish spelling and punctuation can be used. Different pairs/small groups of students could be given a different theme for vocabulary. 2.Stories could also be created with __no text__ to use as prompts for story telling and conversation. Inserting the conversation bubbles with no text would require other students to create appropriate conversation for the situation. 3. For Freeplaymusic.com: A student could select the music and then get with a partner to create a story that would go with the music. 4. for Kerpoof: For second grade, you could do a class video with everyone contributing. Then you could move on to videos created by partners and then finally, individuals creating their own videos. 5. For Voki: I would like to make a series of Vokis asking review questions. It would also be fun to have one as a mascot asking a morning question and greeting the class each morning.

Use Glogster to make presentations more interesting. Debbie

Kerpoof I am excited to use Kerpoof for read alouds for students using other languages. I am happy to see Russian because sometimes it is hard to find languages other than Spanish.

icolor folders I plan to use the color folders on my desktop in my classroom so that students can go to the certain folder to access applicable websites for reading, math and content. Yea!!!! Michele

SonicPics Lite (and/or StoryKit) animal life cycles plant life cycles follow-up on field trips retelling beginning/middle/end of story

Comic Maker or Professor Garfield Comic Lab exit ticket out of a lab after an activity Summarize a book

Post Card app send postcard to parents after a field trip with description by students to share with parents who are not able to go on trip send postcard to parents with pictures of things going on in class with description by students

I have done the following: After an initial writing assignment students can create a voki and use it to present themselves to the rest of the class. (example: In Spanish describe yourself and the activities in which you participate. This requires using vocabulary and grammar in the preliminary lesson of the textbook)
 * **my avatar editor** - created an avatar; besides being on the site, I saved it at home and on school server so that I can easily insert it in other documents/presentations.
 * **voki** - created my voki for “senora Faulkner with a welcome message”

I have experimented with the following sites and thought about possible activities for students. I have no completed activities, because I need to upload more images than are available at some of the sites. I also need to solve the problem of correct spelling and punctuation in Spanish text.

Plans to use:
 * **glogster** – students creating posters for vocabulary and culture
 * **animoto** - teacher created videos to introduce themes of lessons and cultural information (such as pix from Spain and Costa Rica) or creating scenes related to vocabulary themes. Videos can be played first in entirety and then replayed with pauses to prompt vocabulary and conversation.
 * ** HCPS research portaportal page ** to look for appropriate clipart/images.