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1. Collaborate
2. Create
3. Communicate
http://software-creativity.pbwiki.com/

What's essential to include on all formats?
Be explicit: model, share, guide and apply
Display timeline and due dates
Project manage the class
Ask students to choose different format for next unit
Students will eventually use all software
Build student experts in class
Biggest teacher hurdle is management, not IT
Ask yourself what you love to teach and start there
Don't start with a tool. Where do your students struggle? Then select your tool.
My grade 3 story
Show what you know by teaching someone else
Creativity 2.0
"Creativity is developed through 
intellectual engagement, purpose, 
energy and interactive tension with 
others."
"The goal is no longer about technical mastery. It is about creating environments where technology can assist children's learning, regardless of a teacher's technical skill."


Grade 4 - Our Host Culture Is Unique
(an investigation into why Japan is unique)

Activity: You work for a travel agency and wish for more tourists to visit Japan. You wish to highlight cultural activities in your campaign. Select an aspect of Japanese culture you would like to highlight and choose a method below to promote or advertise it. Think about who your target audience are and how this will affect your presentation. State locales for viewing, accommodation options and budgeting information for tourists. 

How can your students present?
Presentation Choices:
A comic (ComicLife) to attract younger visitors and Manga fans
A brochure (Word or Pages)
A TV commercial (iMovie using video and/or still photos with narration)
A radio commercial (GarageBand)
A PowerPoint/Keynote address (include multimedia with mp3s and/or video)
A book/brochure/poster created by you using art materials
You will need to create a timeline plan outlining your goals and due dates, create and present your campaign to the class and then report/summarize/reflect on the choices you made as well as on your presentation
Grade 2 - Leading a Balanced Lifestyle Helps Us Stay Healthy
(An inquiry into personal hygiene, fitness, nutrition and relaxation)

Activity: 
The canteen and school nurse need your help. They wish to raise awareness on healthy lifestyles within the entire school. Healthy lifestyles include personal hygiene, nutrition, fitness and relaxation. They need Grade 2 to create posters to put on display throughout the school. Choose 1 of the elements from above to focus on, or try to include all 4 if you wish. It’s up to you. Your poster needs to look attractive (consider colour, font, font size, etc.). It must be organized. It must have a planned layout, be neat and include the necessary health information. Your posters will be put on display. What is needed for a successful poster campaign? Look through some magazines for ideas. Some may also be copied and sent to the local hospital to be put on display.
Grade K - Water is a Limited Resource
(an inquiry into the changing state of water, the supply of water, where water comes from and where it goes, how we use water and the impact on the environment)

Activity: 
The school library has asked the K classes to create a movie explaining ‘Water.’ They need it so future students and classes can study and learn more about it. 
Using KidPix, each student will need to draw and write about one area of water. You may also insert photographs if you wish. This will be a whole class activity. You will need to discuss, plan (storyboard) and use teamwork to complete this activity. When complete, the movie will be placed in the library for other students to sign out. Your work should be planned, look attractive and have the necessary information. The information that needs to be included are:
Title page
Where water comes from
Where water goes
The changing state of water (liquid, gas, solid)
Different ways we use water (maybe you could also use Kidspiration)
How water affects the environment

Some assessment activities that can be included with almost any unit are: 
A neat and bright poster
A well organised brochure
A story (picture book, comic, graphic novel, chapter book etc.)
A letter to the editor
An article for a magazine
A photo essay (with digital photos or ones drawn by hand)
A skit
A long poem
A video advertisement, radio commercial or tutorial video/resource
A blog, wiki or podcast
2.0 Opportunities:
Create a wiki to share and present research - This wiki could be used for new families entering the school and built up each year (and probably followed by past students which leads to ongoing learning)
Email / Fax / Skype travel offices, Ministry of Tourism officials, other schools, families
Create a posterous site for people to email you pictures, comments, stories
Make your students' creations public - post them, send / mail them, embed them
Teachers need to lead by example. Use the tools in your class.
Best uses for the tools come from the users - allow the students to experiment & learn - what are the early adopters doing with it? Select the things doing well and then help them scale up.
Build class experts.
Don't treat ICT and Web 2.0 as an add-on or 'fun to try' activity.
Encourage items to be placed on the web for authentic feedback.
Don't fear too much. Start small, set goals for yourself by learning a new tool once a month etc.


What can teachers do?
What is creativity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdlBJ-q-4JE
Choose a topic that  interests you.
When all the pages are finished, the whole class will create 1 final slideshow which will then be turned into a Quicktime movie.
*this activity could also be placed on YouTube/TeacherTube as a resource or even sent to your local water treatment center 
Online Option: Drawings or photos could be inserted into VoiceThread and students could simply narrate. Draw pictures and import them into iMovie and have students add voiceovers.
What can creativity do?
Creativity, Technology& Authentic Assessments
1. Introduction
2a. How are you using ICT in your class?
2b. What do teachers want?
3. Creativity & Curriculum
4a. Assessment Examples
4b. Student Examples?
5. What about technology skills?
6. Conclusion
1. Collect info
2. Organise info
3. Share info
1. Wish and want lists (software / hardware)
2. PD (now how do I use it?)

Effective?
Intelligence + Creativity = New Capacities (for problem solving, products and questions)
Knowledge is abundant, creativity is scarce
Intellectually engaging, purpose, energy and interactive tension with others
Variety to express their understanding through real world and authentic problems
Students could generate posters by hand, use pictures from magazines, use IT for text and/or pics, or use software such as KidPix, Kidspiration, ComicLife, Word, etc., to generate their entire poster. Combinations of applications may also be used. Other online opportunities could be with Glogster, Voki (a speaking widget), Vokaroo (audio recorder), and of course, film and video could also be used.
Where are they?
embedded into projects
don't bolt technology onto the curriculum
no need for checklists
go to the wiki to try some 2.0 tools
- Sir Ken Robinson
- Dr. Alan November
What's in the future?
Find info
Validate info and make sense of it
RSS
Post and contribute to the web
Cannot force creativity, only nurture it.

Pedagogy first, tools second.
Isn't that future now?