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Thanks very much for everyone's contributions this week

 

Here are the creative technology tools people said they are using now in school:

  1. Video editing: Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, Pinaple, photodex
  2. Audacity (sound editing)
  3. Drawing/Painting: KidPix studio, Paint, Gimp, Tuxpaint, Aviary tools (http://advanced.aviary.com/) - these are web-based so no problem with installing! Adobe photo shop, Photoscape, ImageChef.com
  4. 3D modelling: Sculptris (will recommended it to our art teacher.)
  5. Presentations: Glogster, Open Office Impress, Prezi
  6. 3D modelling - Blender, K-3D and Google SketchUp.
  7. Website creation: Macromedia, web page maker, Frontpage
  8. Mind map: www.bubbl.us , www.mindomo.com , www.mindmeister.com, Freemind
  9. Quiz and crossword - HotPotatoes (http://hotpot.uvic.ca/)
  10. Cartoons & comics - http://goanimate.com/
  11. Active expression tools (promethean)

 

Here are some of the advantages and disadvantages to using these high-tech creative tools that people spoke about:

  1. Teaching becomes more fun and students are usually more creative when using them in their home assignments.
  2. Diversity is important. Using too much of anything can lead to saturation.
  3. Limited time (e.g. just once a week the ICT lesson - 45 minutes
  4. A large "IT skills gap" between the students joining the class from different social environments.
  5. Diversity is important and many "old-fashioned" methods still work well. I think we have to use as many different ways of teaching as possible because you never know what makes sense for each student. 

 

 

Week 4: 2-8 April

Creative tools for schools

Examples of creative tools for schools

We will look at examples such as: Video editing, Paint, 3D modelling, Presentations tools, Sound editing

 

Examples of creative tools for schools

We will ask the question: "Are high-tech solutions better than traditional ways of teaching creativity?"

I.e. are paints and clay better than Photoshop and SketchUp?

 

Read more about designing technology to enable creativity and collaboration in schools in this Futurelab report

Topic 1 Topic 1

Examples of creative tools for schools

Video editing, Paint, 3D modelling, Presentations tools, Sound editing.

Read more about these, in the messsage board, here.

Topic 2 Topic 2

Are high-tech solutions better than traditional ways of teaching creativity?

I.e. are paints and clay better than Photoshop and SketchUp?

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02/04/12 07:25
Here are some examples of how technology can be used in the creative subjects:

Film & Theatre production:
Software such as "mediastage" allow students to experience many aspects of staging their own theatre, TV or film production (without needing a real theatre, cameras, etc).

Video editing:
Free software such as "VirtualDub" or "Windows Movie Maker" allow students or teachers to edit video film they have made on cameras or mobile phones.

Painting:
Lots of free painting software is available, for all ages, including: "TuxPaint", and "TwistedBrush". These focus more on the painting than the software aspects such as retouching or adjusting photos (like Photoshop)

Clay modelling:
Free software like "Sculptris" are excellent ways of creating clay sculptures if you don;t have access to real clay!

Presenting:
"Prezi" is a different way of making a presentation. Unlike PowerPoint, Prezi is much more visually creative and interesting.

Sound editing:
"Audacity" is a free tool to edit sound recordings.

Question:
How are creative tools being used in your schools?
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
05/04/12 12:08 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
A few years ago I teached a media course for the pupils age 16-18. I divided the students to small groups and they all made a short movie. We used Movie Maker for editing. It's pretty easy to learn and use emoticon Now I'm interested in Prezi which you also mentioned. I'm planning to use it when teaching physics and chemistry... Let's see how it worksemoticon
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
05/04/12 13:54 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
Thanks for this info Graham. I've just downloaded TuxPaint and it is a good tool for teaching a child how to manipulate the mouse.
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
05/04/12 16:11 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
I use Windows movie maker and Audacity regularly when showing students video or audio material. Sometimes students use them for preparing presentations or projects.

Sculptris sounded interesting so I checked out web page and downloaded software. Will be playing with it next couple of days and try to think of something fun for my students emoticon
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
08/04/12 08:26 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
I have tried Movie Maker myself but have never used it in the lessons. Now I think it could be possible to ask students to explain some processes in biology or chemistry using movies. It takes more time but hopefully gives better understanding.
We have used Audacity for recording student’s talk in English. It’s useful for them to analyse it later. We have used Smart Board software, KidPix studio, Paint and several others.
One way to make different presentations and express yourself creatively is Glogster www.glogster.com
I had a look at Prezi and I will try to use it. Thanks for good ideas!
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
08/04/12 08:37 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
Hello!

I am using PowerPoint and make all my presentations with this program. And I know, that all our teachers are using PowerPoint. Now I was study little a Prezi and in the future time will be try to use this program and I will be intriduce Prezi to my other collegues too.
Our Computer teatcher is using Windows Movie Maker.
For me was very interesting programm a "Sculptris - I will recommended it to our art teatcher.

All the best!

Enela from Estonia
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
08/04/12 16:17 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
Hello,
weel many of creative tools mentioned are really easy to use they become more interesting for students - in a short time nice looking "outputs" can be seen. I always try to show something new from them to my students - the Sculptris was amazing! There is on problem - we have just once a week the ICT lesson (45 minutes) in the 1st and 2nd Grade (secondary school level) - it isn´t enough to to go throuh the national curriculum and to include the creative tools as well, and there is the problem with a large "IT skills gap" between the students joining the class from different social environments. But I always try to show them something more creative than Excel or Word. Video or Sound editing are activities with a high interest of my students - we use Movie Maker and Audacity or the AVIARY tools (http://advanced.aviary.com/) - these are web-based so no problem with installing!
Zuzana
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
08/04/12 17:13 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
I have very good experiences wtih active expression tools (promethean).

Its possible to get adhoc feedback by students during all time. Is easy to use, just plag an interactive hub onto the notebook and hand over the expression tools to students. (is possible with smartphones too)
Feedback is lkisted in graphes, so teachers can have an overview how many time students need for answewering, you can get out statistic materieal too.

For me ist a new step on using technology in every day live in schools
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
09/04/12 06:56 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
Thank you, Graham! Sculptris is amazing! TuxPaint is useful too, especially for younger studentsemoticon
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
09/04/12 13:38 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
Hello Graham,
I'm very sorry to burst in the middle of COP, but I had a problem with my connetctions to the internet. Is it a problem if I join to this COP at this moment? I'll try to keep up with you guys.
Teaemoticon
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
09/04/12 19:56 as a reply to Graham Hopkins.
We use many of the tools you propose (audacity, the free equivalent to Movie maker because we work with linux, some drawing programs like gimp...)

Talking about presentations, last year I make them work in groups of three persons to make presentations. They had to look for, select and prepare information about an informatic subject (we were working on web2.0). Then each of them had to construct a presentation with a different tool and see which of them they prefer for their final exposition:

-Open Office Impress (the equivalent toPower Point), but preparing a Pecha-Kucha presentation
-Prezi
-Mental maps constructed using freemind

It was interesting to explore the different possibility of each tool, and the different ways the same information can be presented.

I thing mental maps (on computer or paper) are a really usefull tool for creative people
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
10/04/12 08:25 as a reply to Jukka Rahkonen.
Hi Jukka,

Thanks for your message. I'd love to hear how it goes when you try using Prezi in teaching physics and chemistry.

Thanks,
Graham
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RE: Examples of creative tools for schools
10/04/12 08:27 as a reply to Sílvia Zurita i Món.
Hi everyone!

It's really encouraging to hear how you have all bee using creative technology in your schools. Movie Maker (or its Linux equivalent) sounds like a favourite. Video editing is obviously something that works well at school.

Thanks for all your messages. I'll post a summary of the week, as usual, and we'll now move on to week 5!

Graham
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