Exploring Creativity & Technology

Creativity Resources

Engagement 

Kagan Publishing and Professional Development is all about engagement! Central to most Kagan publications and workshops are Kagan Structures. You've probably heard of some popular Kagan Structures including Numbered Heads Together, Timed Pair Share, RallyRobin, and Quiz-Quiz-Trade. Those Kagan Structures, and many more, are now used world-wide from kindergarten to adult education, in all academic subject areas to boost student engagement and learning.

Technology

Apps

Create, Engage, Assess
Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations 
that teachers create and customize themselves
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
Train smarter. See results faster. Broadcast quality instant replay anywhere you can take a smart phone or tablet.
The 55 Best Free Educational Apps
iPad apps for Social Studies,organized  into different categories.
Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class’ current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.
Create custom Learning Paths for your front line employees and supervisors to get them up-to-speed in record time. See dramatic improvements in as little as four to six weeks with our 30/30 plan or a full Learning Paths project.
Utah Association for Gifted Children advocates for the diverse population of gifted children in the State of Utah. We advance the understanding of the academic and social/emotional needs of gifted children among community leaders, policy makers, educators and parents. We promote the development of quality services to provide educational opportunities for gifted students. We increase the capacity of educators and parents to be agents of change in their schools and communities and in the lives of gifted children.

Creating a Google Classroom
Movenote is a one-of-a-kind video presentation tool online and on your portable devices. Movenote is incredibly versatile and is being used in education for blended and flipped learning, in sales and marketing and in everyday messaging. Recording your presentations is easy and quick and everything is sharable online by email or social media with a simple link. Since everything is on a cloud server, you can access your videos practically anywhere and with the statistics tool you will be able to see who watched your video and when. Movenote videos can be watched on any device that supports video, no matter if they have movenote on them or not. You can use movenote directly from your Gmail and your Google Drive and on any desktop computer, laptop, iOS or Android device. Movenote is here to change the way we communicate, join the move(note)ment!
What is Byrdseed?Byrdseed is a place dedicated to differentiating instruction for high-level learners. Learn new ideas, share what you know, and grow as an educator.

Data base for educational based presentations
  • Using Adobe Connect within the classroom.
  • Log in via the Adobe Connect link via my uen
  • The green sections are called pod, primary pods include: Share, Videos, Attendees, Chat
  • If showing a live video you will want to download it, one (free) program that can be used to transcode videos is called handbrake

Rigor & Quality Education

Vocabulary to know

TPAK: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
ISTE: 
International Society for Technology & Education

What is 21st century education?

Published on Mar 15, 2012
Our world is changing at an unprecedented pace. To prepare our students, lessons must go beyond the "3 R's" and foster 21st century skills. Skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity will be essential for students to take on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Ted Talks: Reimagining Learning: Richard Culatta at TEDxBeaconStreet 

Personalize (Individualize Education), Remove the time linear sequence, Use data to drive personalized instruction
Richard Culatta identifies 3 major challenges with our current approach to education and suggests how a shift to personalized learning is the key to the future of education in America. To make this shift, we must close the digital divide between those who can leverage technology to reimagine learning and those who simply use technology to digitize the status quo. A teacher by training and innovator by inclination, Richard Culatta works to leverage technology to reinvent learning. In thespirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.

5 Tips for Presenting with iPad

  1. Made sure the iPad is the right tool for the job
  2. Do the dirty work on the desktop, but think of the iPad
  3. Keep it simple
  4. Do several test runs before using
  5. Have a backup


How do I get what' on my iPad to show up on my projector screen?
  1. Apple TV  (try using conference room mode, so that one picture shows up
  2. Connect directly to the projector (tethers you to one place), however it will look good
  3. Reflectorapp.com, & Arserver.com allows you to project without using your Apple TV
  4. Splashtop & Doceri  (Control your laptop/desktop with your ipad) turns your iPad into a white board, you download the app on your devise, adn you download the streamer onto your desktop, and then you can control your computer from the network.

Great Instructional Media
  1. Youtube
  2. TedEd (lessons worth sharing)
  3. Teacher Tube
  4. Pioneer
  5. Create you own Instructional Media
  6. Fotobabble

Presentation Tool

Presentation Tools
Here are 16 of my favorite presentation tools for teachers and students! Which ones are your favorites?
Adobe Voice
Just talk to tell your story. Say it one line at a time, with touch recording. Voice will make you sound amazing. Communicate visually. Instantly.
Pick from thousands of beautiful, iconic images to show your ideas. Then choose the perfect look.  Watch your ideas come alive.
Voice automatically makes your story move, with cinema-quality animation. Just press play.

Technology  Videos

Collaboration, Critical Thinking & Creativity

Uploaded on Jul 27, 2011
Created through collaboration by members of Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the talented folks at FableVision, Above & Beyond is a story about what is possible when communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity take center stage in schools and transform learning opportunities for all kids.