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Fred Delventhal

The Clever Sheep: 14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons - 0 views

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    Besides providing access to hundreds of thousands of media works that can be used to augment the creative process, the Creative Commons offers a legitimate way for students to license their own creative works, be they audio, video, text or hybrid products.
Fred Delventhal

Challenge Based Learning - About - 0 views

  • Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.
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    Students embrace media that presents participants with a challenge and requires them to draw on prior learning, acquire new knowledge, and tap their creativity to fashion solutions. The entertainment networks have capitalized on this formula with shows like The Amazing Race, Top Chef, Trading Spaces, and Project Runway in which participants creatively draw on their knowledge and resources to create appropriate solutions to challenges. To address the need to create new ways of engaging students to achieve, Apple worked with educators across the country to develop the concept of Challenge Based Learning.
Fred Delventhal

MakeSweet: Creativity Has a Flavor - 0 views

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    The MakeSweet mission is to help you "taste" the creative possibilities of great free software you might not have tried yet. For example, our picture mixer lets you play with 3D designs made in Blender 3D, and if you decide you want to learn more about this software we'll help you on your way.
Fred Delventhal

SecretBuilders - 0 views

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    via http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/12/secret-builders-virtual-world-for-ages.html SecretBuilders is a virtual world for children 5 to 14 years old powered by a web 2.0 community of children, parents, educators, writers, artists and game developers. On SecretBuilders, children will explore virtual lands, undertake quests, play games, maintain a home, nurture a pet, and interact with their friends. Three features which form the backdrop for SecretBuilders distinguish it from other online worlds: * Children learn through immersing themselves in the stories, themes, and concepts from the best in literature, arts and humanities. They will interact with famous historical and fictional figures and be introduced to content and characters from world civilization and the great thoughts and ideas of human creativity. * Children will create this site, not just consume it. They are directly involved in creating this world with their ideas, critiques and contributions on virtually every aspect of the site and many of their ideas will be implemented! * Children publish their works - writings, art, videos - making SecretBuilders their own personal store of creativity. They can invite friends and family to view their works, and comment upon them. Seeing their works published and enjoyed by others instills tremendous for self-confidence as well as motivation to do more.
Fred Delventhal

Respondo! - Creative Literature Response Questions - 0 views

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    Don't just ask students to "identify the conflict" or "note the setting." Use Respondo! to click up some creative literature response questions.
Fred Delventhal

Creative Commons Video Sharing Sites and Social Media Tools - Podcasting Law - Zimbio - 0 views

  • The sites and tools below have been selected for their open participation, support and recognition of Creative Commons licenses. The list is designed to make it easier for people to locate video hosts, video content and useful resources for working with CC video materials.
Fred Delventhal

Shidonni World- virtual pets drawings come to life - 0 views

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    Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.
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Creative Commons Kiwi on Vimeo - 2 views

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    "Creative Commons Kiwi"
Fred Delventhal

Google In the Classroom - Download Free Content from Michigan's MI Learning on iTunes - 1 views

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    The use of technology in education provides powerful opportunities to engage students in authentic learning. Google has developed a suite of tools that can easily be integrated into K-12 classrooms to encourage collaboration and creativity. This course will provide educators with a basic understanding of various Google products and suggest ways to integrate those products into the classroom.  Hat tip to John Sowash
Fred Delventhal

Skype - TLC Online Home - 0 views

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    Using Skype in the Classroom Desktop Voice and Videoconferencing Software in Education Discover how to communicate and collaborate with friends, colleagues, resource experts, and other classrooms using Skype. Skype is a program that allows users to communication with voice, videoconferencing, or chat for free between computers. Create a Skype account, add contacts, and conduct free audio and video conferences between computers. Explore creative ways to use this tool to enhance teaching and learning.
Fred Delventhal

IncrediBots - Online Robot Physics Game! - 0 views

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    Hey there! Get ready for all sorts of wacky, physical fun - okay, more mental than physical, but there are physics involved - from the comforts of your computer chair! This is IncrediBots, and you'll be building, guiding, jumping, and doing all sorts of wonderful things with your very own robots, spawned from the depths of your creativity, in a wide-open, physics-based playground!
Fred Delventhal

Discovery Education - Inspiring Invention PSA Contest and K-12 Classroom Resources - 0 views

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    Enter to win the Inspiring Invention Contest. Create a public service announcement that motivates others to get inspired and start inventing. Show us how invention enriches everyday life and your school could win a prize package from Sony Creative Software!
Fred Delventhal

About the site - 0 views

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    Within this site you will find lesson ideas, examples, and downloads for mathematics that embrace active learning, constructivism, and project-based learning while remaining true to the standards. The initial focus will be for grades 5 and up, but teachers of younger students may be able to find some uses or inspiration from the site. Higher level thinking skills, such as analysis, synthesis, and creativity are encouraged as well as technology skills and social learning. The scope of this site is mathematics, but many lessons lend themselves to interdisciplinary activities also.
Fred Delventhal

Purple Planet Music - 0 views

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    We retain the copyright, but so long as it is not resold you are welcome to use music here in virtually any way you want. We simply ask that we are correctly credited in your production, under a Creative Commons License. Via Tim Childers
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Games for the Brain - 0 views

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    Unless otherwise noted all games are created by GamesfortheBrain.com (Philipp Lenssen). All pages licensed under Creative Commons. Contact philipp.lenssen@gmail.com for more information. If you have feedback on games, or ideas for new ones, please let me know! (Here's my blog, by the way.)
Fred Delventhal

Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide - Download the e-book - 2 views

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    "The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: * Improve their writing. * Show creativity. * Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment."
Fred Delventhal

Five Card Flickr - 1 views

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    You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary). Plus we offer the ability to tweet your story!
Fred Delventhal

JamParty4Education - 2 views

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    Play JamParty is for all ages, all abilities, and all levels - beginner to advanced. It is a musical sandbox where even beginners can discover their own musical creativity. Create Create your own original music for multimedia projects, poetry, lyrics, dance routines, and much more. Share Turn your original music into an mp3 with a click of a button, use a screen recorder to record a video of your jam, and share your jam on a social network. Learn Learn about musical/sound awareness, rhythm, song structure, etc. and More: See how other educators plan to use JamParty at school.
Fred Delventhal

Using Google Docs in the Classroom - 0 views

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    We've heard many ingenious ways that teachers have used Google Docs in the classroom. Here are just a few: * Promote group collaboration and creativity by having your students record their group projects together in a single doc. * Keep track of grades, attendance, or any other data you can think of using an easily accessible, always available spreadsheet. * Facilitate writing as a process by encouraging students to write in a document shared with you. You can check up on their work at any time, provide insight and help using the comments feature, and understand better each students strengths. * Create quizzes and tests using spreadsheets forms, your students' timestamped answers will arrive neatly ordered in a spreadsheet. * Encourage collaborative presentation skills by asking your students to work together on a shared presentation, then present it to the class. * Collaborate on a document with fellow teachers to help you all track the status and success of students you share. * Maintain, update and share lesson plans over time in a single document. * Track and organize cumulative project data in a single spreadsheet, accessible to any collaborator at any time.
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