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This non-profit group promotes creative ideas across the state of Oklahoma through initiatives to help in education, among other things. "Creative Oklahoma recognizes that creativity must become an overarching and essential mindset for Oklahomans if this state is to thrive economically and socially in the 21st Century. Creative Oklahoma is the only statewide non-profit organization in the nation that encourages and supports creativity in the multiple arenas of Culture, Commerce and Education." Note: It is part of a world-wide community dividing areas into "districts of creativity."

This wiki is part of a group project between four educators with a common interest in Critical Literacy and Creativity. The authors assert that creativity is a part of human beings that affects how we live and understand and that it is an integral part of education and learning, not an added extra.

I also read the article "The Creativity Crisis" and found it very interesting. The article ends with describing how the mind of a creative person works and the connections they make. There are methods, which I will need to research, to help all students think creatively. This is something that I am going to try to find out more information on so that I can help out the students within my classroom to become more creative thinkers as well as myself.

This is part of the web site that hosted the creativity test we took. Great list of resources about innovation and creativity.

High student achievement by incorporating creativity.

Activities designed to spark creativity in any aged student and with any subject.

After reading this article, I was encouraged to search for projects that enhance creativity in students.

This is apparently one part of an article about Einstein. I found many of the ideas outlined about Einstein and how he thought about his own creativty very interesing.

This article discusses how literacy can be helped through the creativity of poetry. I think it is very interesting because it is not something that is being done in a suburban or private school with lots of funding and most students at the standard level, but in an urban classroom.

"Creativity, once a trait avoided by employers, is now prized among employers who are trying to create the empowered, high-performance workforce needed for competitiveness in today's marketplace.Employees with these skills are in demand and are considered valuable human capital assets to companies," says Dr. Jacquelyn Robinson, a community workforce development specialist.

A site to check out and read some good ideas about using creativity in our classrooms.

A study that lookes at matheamtics understanding in gifted students and its links to creativity.

The World Peace Game for fourth graders that sparks creative thinking in order to solve simulated world problems. John Hunter is a teacher previously with Charlotesville City Schools and most currently Albermarle County. This is his talk at TED, but I've also posted the link to the World Peace Game web site.

I think this tool gives a voice to all of those students who are being bullied (and cyberbullied) and feeling that they are alone in this world. It engages the students so that they can make their own creative submissions to help cope with the isolation they are experiencing and to take control of their situation. There is even a game called "Bully Busters" that allows students to create their own heroes and personalize their experience. Furthermore, there is a section that talks about "Peer Power Presenters", a program that coaches and empowers students to make presentations during Bullying Awareness Week, asserting that presentations will only be made by youth to youth. Finally, there is an option to submit and access helpful resources that include multimedia, books, articles, laws and policies, projects, research, and lesson plans. This site is packed with information and hands on materials.

If you like creating with wordle, you will love this site. There are many more creative options and numerous choices for sharing students' work online.

Creative way to find, share and store ideas found on web.