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.
Election coverage from the Kathryn E. Cunningham/Canal Point Elementary in Florida. Damon Weaver, a 5th grader, is the news reporter covering Obama and McCain rallies in Florida. And he gets a terrific interview with Joe Biden. Well done Damon! And “well done” to the school too. What an amazing way to involve your students in [...]
This tutorial from SEOish on How to Make Google Gadgets uses google gadgets to teach about making google gadgets. Love the video next to the gadget editor. Clever and effective.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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