...almost done.
Here are several, less time-consuming, simple activities for you this week. This will be the last post that you are required the respond to. I have enjoyed reading your weekly responses and your answers have been very honest and insightful.
1. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh wanted to learn more about teens, music, and what that relationship means to their library. Watch the seven minute video and answer the same questions they answered.
Here are the five questions for you to answer:
1. When do you listen to music?
2. How do you listen to music?
3. What have you been listening to lately?
4. How do you learn about new music?
5. What does music mean to you?
2. Go to the Exploratorium site and under the heading (in the middle of the page) titled Science of Music: Accidental Scientist and look around. Under the heading Exhibits choose one or two of the following activities: dot mixer, kitchen sink-o-pation, step re-mix, or online drum circle. PLAY!! Have some fun. Tell us which activities you chose and what you thought of them.
BTW – if you are not familiar with this site it is a great resource for teachers.
3. Please read the article titled "No Child Left Behind Leaving 70% Of Our Children Behind" by Steve Young. This Op-Ed talks about NCLB and learning through mistakes. Share an experience you have had, either personally or as a teacher, where a mistake has been a good thing -- a learning experience.
Intro
Welcome to the class blog for "The Creative Process," Baker SPGS SOE Spring 2009.
Every week there will be several items posted. You are required to respond to the posted items. In addition you may respond to comments posted by classmates. Either a gmail or yahoo account is required to post comments. If you do not wish to use your existing account please create a new account and provide me with your tag name so that I will know that you are posting.
An acceptable and successful post will be more than one word and will be a formed and thoughtful response.
In addition to the the weekly posts I will also be adding lists and links that may be useful to you, first in your personal "creative" life, and second, in your life as an educator. I encourage you to forward websites, photos for posting, and other ideas to me so they can be shared with everyone.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
WEEK FOUR
Your response paper this week will not be on paper but on the blog. I know this is crunch time for papers so what I expect is that you write several paragraphs (about the equivalent of 1.5 typed pages) in the response section. Look at the website for Inanimate Alice. Take a look around the site. Work through one of the online stories and tell me what you think. Is it creative, would this work with age appropriate students? Could this be used in the classroom? Does this give you any other ideas?1. Go to the magnetic poetry site. Choose one of the kit options and create your poem. Be sure and email the poem to me. If you choose you can also copy the poem down and submit it as a response.
2. Watch the video titled Serious Play, a TED talk presentation given in May 2008, by Tim Brown, the CEO of Ideo, a design firm founded by David E. Kelley in 1991. Brown carries forward Ideo's mission of fusing design, business, and social studies to come up with deeply researched, deeply understood designs and ideas. Ideo is the kind of firm that companies turn to when they want a top-down rethink of a business or product -- from fast food conglomerates to high tech startups, hospitals to universities. Ideo has designed and prototyped everything from a life-saving portable defibrillator to the defining details at the groundbreaking Prada shop in Manhattan (IDEO designed those famous see-through dressing rooms).
If you have time and would like to you can go to the Ideo site. One the site you will find MUCH interesting info, ideas, and case studies for creativity in several school settings.
What do you think?
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