This document provides information about creativity and technology integration. It includes quotes and ideas about the importance of creativity in education, developing creative skills and careers, and using technology as a creative outlet. The document also presents models for integrating technology into lessons, such as using Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram to tell visual stories and for showcasing student work.

1. CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
PLANET OF THE APPS
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6. DANGER
If#you#don’t#read#much,#
TOOLISHNESS
you#really#don’t#know#much.#
AHEAD YOU #ARE
DANGEROUS!
!
--Jim Trelease

7. COLLABORATION CREATIVITY SHOWDOWN

9. MANIFESTO:
A Guide for Developing a Creative Career
1. Don't be afraid to fall in love with something and
pursue it with intensity.
2. Know, understand, take pride in, practice,
develop, exploit and enjoy your greatest strengths.
3. Learn to free yourself from the expectations of
others and to walk away from the games they
impose on you.
Free yourself to play your own game.
4. Find a great teacher or mentor who will help you.
5. Don't waste energy trying to be well rounded.
6. Do what you love and can do well.
7. Learn the skills of
INTERDEPENDENCE.
(Torrance, 2002)

16. DEMO

17.
Sir Ken Robinson
We
are
educa)ng
people
Crea)vity
is
as
important
in
out
of
their
crea)vity.
educa)on
as
literacy.

18. Rather than running the risk of
having our students become
WALKING
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
we need to TEACH them how to
THINK CREATIVELY.
(Sternberg,
2006)

19. Pianos
NOT
Stereos (Resnick, 1996)

20. THE COMPUTER IS MY INSTRUMENT.
will.i.am

21. Plugging Into
Creative Outlets
Brian C. Housand
Angela M. Housand
Gifted Education
Communicator
Spring 2011
Vol. 42, No. 1

22. DID

24. nomophobia
Fear of
NO MObile access

25. flickr five frames

27. flickr five frames

28. five frames
http://www.flickr.com/groups/visualstory/

29. flickr five frames
1st photo:
establish
characters and location

31. flickr five frames
2nd photo:
create a situation
with possibilities of
what might happen

33. flickr five frames
3rd photo:
involve the characters
in the situation

34. www.youtube.com/searchstories

36. flickr five frames
4th photo:
build to
probable outcomes

38. flickr five frames
5th photo:
have a logical
but surprising end

40. instagram dermandar snapseed

41. BORN: February 15, 2005
48 hours of video are uploaded every minute,
resulting in nearly 8 years of content uploaded
every day
Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day
More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month
than the 3 major US networks created in 60 years

43. ShOWCaSE
ShOWDOWn

46. Why did the pirate
go to the Apple
store?
Scan for the answer

49. 5
STEP
TECHNOLOGY 5. EVALUATE
INTEGRATION
PLAN
4. WATCH IT GROW
3. GIVE IT TIME
2. PROVIDE A PURPOSE
1. IDENTIFY A TECH TOOL
(Besnoy, Housand, & Clark, 2008)

50. tyvm
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