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28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter

"During this first week of school, I wanted to inspire my students to be creative and have fun with their learning. In years past I have always struggled to make my writing lessons fun and engaging, yet productive. This is year I decided to introduce writing with the help of my favorite tech tool: Augmented Reality! "

Virtual Choir 3, 'Water Night', received 3746 videos from 73 countries around the world and launched on April 2nd 2012 at a live event at Lincoln Center, webcast on Lincoln Center Website, and revealed online. The directors, Cake, developed creative solutions for this volume of material to a brief, working closely together with Eric to develop the final film inspired by the Virtual Choir community and the text from Water Night by Octavio Paz:

Place Out Of Time is a simulation of a trial, where students play guests who come from a range of places and times throughout history to discuss some of the great issues of humankind. Our trial takes place (virtually) at the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. Place Out of Time is a writing intensive project for middle and high school students, meant to draw upon their sense of play and the hook of having an audience for their ideas to engage them in putting a twist on the study of history. Student participants and university mentors debate issues and perspectives in character, and move from reading and studying about their characters to a series of opportunities for original research--both historical and creative--as they decide what their character would say about issues that took place in places far distant (in time and geography) from their lives.

THE COUNTRY'S STRONGEST INNOVATORS EMBRACE CREATIVITY, PLAY, AND COLLABORATION -- VALUES THAT ALSO INFORM THEIR PHYSICAL SPACES.

Glogster EDU Premium is an education collaborative online learning tool for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom.

Free Creative Commons images the Wylio way:

Thanks, Dan. I put in several searches and received hundreds of pictures. Great resource for digital storytellers!

Maybe I'll move beyond copyright-free clip-art!

I've made them because sometimes I need to make a custom image to illustrate a specific idea when I'm writing about a topic. During this process, I've found some simple tools that I've used to create an illustration with a specific scene, add characters and props, and even write captions for characters. Here's one I made trying to explain an idea about formative assessment:

Dan Meyer TED talk about math