Great presentation from the TED Talks.
Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play
Talked about the need to engage in:
playful exploration
playful building
playful roleplaying
Started with an exercise - asked the audience to take 30 seconds to draw a picture of the person sitting next to them. The audience was full of laughter and lots of apologies [...]
Teen Read week was last month, but you could make this kind of great book teasers video anytime. From readergirlz. Created with Microsoft Movie Maker. What fun.
This is way more fun than the vocabulary flash cards we used back in 3rd grade. Wordia is a collection of short videos submitted that explain the meaning of a word. Anyone can submit a video, some are casual, some goofy, some are a bit serious. But most of the ones I watched really did [...]
In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me thinking about and looking for other back to school ideas for this fun tool.
Like all the tools at bighugelabs, this [...]
Animoto is once again offering educator accounts with a free upgrade to the “all access pass” that let’s you create longer videos. Other features to enhance classroom use include a way to create ‘dummy’ accounts for students under age 13, ability to keep classroom videos private and individual accounts for everyone in your classroom.
Animoto lets [...]
One of the projects I really enjoy being involved with is our statewide summer reading program. And that’s how I found out about the awesome StoryTubes project. Children from all over the country created short videos about their favorite books. What fun! We had 7 terrific entries from NYS this year. Let’s have more next [...]
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