Showing posts with label Creativity and Innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creativity and Innovation. Show all posts

Stay Creative in Literature curriculum!




29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU on Vimeo.



Education: 

You know that I am a fan of social media in the school! Facebook, Twitter, others are interesting resources! 

So, we have here an interesting motivation video to share with our students on Facebook - 'educator' account, not 'personal' account - if they must write an essay at Literature curriculum. 

And we know that they must write and write! But in a creative way! 

Oh! Of course : tip 15 - Practice, Practice, Practice!



G-Souto
08.06.2011
Copyright © 2010G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®

Credits: Motion Graphics TO-FU
Reference: paulzii.tumblr.com
Music: Fairest of them all (#) by Kämmerer
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It's about Twiter and poetry!





World Poetry Day at CCB, Portugal
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Twitter turned 5 March 21! March 21 is World Poetry Day since 1999!


Two days ago happened to be both World Poetry Day and the fifth anniversary of the moment when Jack Dorsey sent out to the world the first message using the service that soon became known as Twitter.






"Over the last five years, Twitter has changed the way many communicate online, offering a concise way to interact with large crowds of people. It has become an invaluable tool for spreading breaking new."


Nick Bilton


"Poetry contributes to creative diversity, by questioning a new our use of words and things, our modes of perception and understanding of the world.!"


UNESCO 


So, don't you think that they have a lot in common in their specific way? Let's see!



Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company

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There is some evidence that literary is flowering of Twitter. The Twitter haiku movement is well under way. Science fiction and mystery enthusiasts especially have gravitated to its communal immediacy. And even litterateurs, seem to be warming to it. Read more here


Education:


This idea gives us a fantastic way to introduce Poetry in the Literature classroom. 


Students love the narrative text! Poetry... is different! Not all the students feel touched to poetry writing! It's important to motivate students with different strategies! The Twitter calling bards  is a good motivation, believe me!


"To celebrate, The Times asked its readers and followers to compose short poems on Twitter using the hashtag #poetweet. Hundreds of poems, many of them brevity-friendly haiku, flooded the Twittersphere. Below, a few of the submissions. More Twitter poems can be found by searching #poetweet at search.twitter.com."


So, as you see, we can be all the time creative and follow our creativity to put it in classroom.


I defended the idea of using Twitter in Literature curriculum in my presentation  and theme discuss "Creative learning in the digital age" during the workshop in EFQUEL  Innovation Forum Lisboa 2010.
Twitter's rule makes the students take discipline on their thematic homework. They become better in writing and do appreciate the importance of the word semantic. 

Some students were bad writers and had an awful time getting their thoughts down properly and in a concise way. Twitter's rule really helps students and why not some educators improve both of those things.

Keeping ideas in 140 characters or less teach students to be concise in writing.

Poetry! Even better! How interesting to ask students to write a poem within Twitter's text limit of 140 characters!


The 21 March, I was on my account on Twitter and I followed the hastag #poetweet! Interesting! 


Well! Go on! Share the idea with your students! They will love it! It might be the start for a poetry contest for students on Twitter !





To introduce younger students to Twitter what a better way than the video that I discovered recently via Nancy White! It's so cute and cuddly the way these 2, Nancy and Suzy really break down what Twitter is and helps explain it to students.

I met 'virtually' Nancy White during my participation in the conference Where for Digital Identity on 07 January 2010, London, organized by Eduserv, hosted at the Conference Center of the British Library. 

She made her presentation 'virtually' between  Steven Warburton and Shirley Williams. Nancy's points of view was very interesting. Since there I follow her on Twitter. 

On the video above, Nancy White explains in a marvellous and creative way how students might use Twitter.

Twitter is a viable place for learning about real-time events and a place where students and educators can take part in some really meaningful educational  way.


"The confluence of these two events - both having to do with humanity’s deep and sometimes uncontrollable need to communicate - is occasioning a fresh outpouring of opinion about the future of Twitter as a vehicle for real creativity."


G-Souto
23.03.2011
Copyright © 2010G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®


Credits: video Community matters


References:


UNESCO, World Poetry Day, 21 March 2011
http://www.un.org/en/events/poetryday/

Randy Kennedy, How Do I Love Thee? Count 140 Characters, NYT, 19.03.11
Alexus Mainland, Celebrating a Form of Tweetrature, NYT, 21.03.11
http://www.nytimes.com


Gina Souto, Dr., Creative learning in the digital age, EFQUEL Innovation Forum Lisbon, 08.09.11

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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011: Grand Finale live





You do remember 'YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011' here? Of course you do!

What began with auditions from around the world uploaded to YouTube, millions of video views, and hours of rehearsals, finally comes to life today Sunday, March 20. 

It has been an extraordinary experience for the 101 winning musicians of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, and today their collaborative experience will come to life at Sydney Opera House. Here’s a preview of what’s to come:




The week-long YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 festival included musical collaboration between orchestra members and world-class mentors, outdoor performances, local Aussie experiences, ensemble concerts and so much more!

The 'Grand Finale' is here! The Orchestra is rehearsing like crazy and tensions are starting to build. They're from over thirty countries and different backgrounds, they're all different ages and have different styles of playing, and very soon, they've got a concert to put on.

You can visualize the profile of the musicians here. For example, Pedro, a young trumpet musician from Portugal! On the right side of Google map, you can see the different instruments. 

Clicking on trumpet, the map gives you a big zoom on Portugal and you will see Pedro and his profile! Same with all the musicians!

So, today the creativity and technology that have powered this journey will literally light up Sydney Opera House with animated visuals on the interior and exterior projections on the iconic sails, all synchronised to the music of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011’s performance.

You can join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter to encourage your musicians fot the Grand Finale.

The Grand Finale performance by YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 will be accompanied by spectacular projections by Obscura Digital on the iconic sails of Sydney Opera House. Tune in on Sunday 20th March from 8pm Sydney time for the live concert which will be rebroadcasted throughout the day in your city.
Watch the concert streamed live on the channel or through the mobile app.



"Sydney Opera House is committed to providing an arts education experience to as many children as possible. Through YouTube’s support we can bring our significant education program more fully to life in the digital environment."
Sydney Opera House



G-Souto

20.03.2011


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Credits: videos Youtube Symphony Orchestra 2011

References:

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

The Officicial YouTube blog

Sydney Opera House


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A Brief History of Title Design



A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.



Presentation video for the SXSW "Excellence in Title Design" competition screening.

Editor Ian Albinson

Music: RJD2 'Ghostwriter' (a film by Roman Polansky)

Read more here


Education:

A good example of creativty to share with Arts Students!

G-Souto
17.03.2011
Copyright © 2010G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®

Credits: video Vimeo



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International Women's Day Centenary




Photo: Viktoria Prada Moldova

Black Festimage 2009
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8 March 2011 is being celebrated in many parts of the world as the '100th Anniversary of International Women's Day'.
It is also the first International Women’s Day for UN Women, created by the UN General Assembly on 2 July 2010.
The official theme of International Women’s Day 2011 is "Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women".
Irina Bokova/ Unesco Director-General
© UNESCO/Andrew Wheeler


"International Women’s Day was first honoured one hundred years ago in a handful of European countries. Since then, the celebration has become global, and much has been achieved. The 2011 International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate achievements and mobilize against the challenges that remain.


(...)

This year’s International Women’s Day is inspired by the theme of ‘Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women.’ This goes to the heart of UNESCO’s mission. We work to strengthen the bridges between education, training, science and technology and the labour market in order to promote equal opportunity to decent employment. 

This starts early, with quality education for all girls and young women from the primary to the tertiary level. It continues with vocational training and education for women who have not acquired basic skills. It proceeds with creating positive role models and career tracks – especially in such areas as science and technology."


Message from the Director-General





The Mirror/ Roby Sofer 


Teachers play a critical role towards the achievement of the Education for All (EFA) goal on gender equity.
In many developing countries there is a shortage of female teachers, particularly at secondary and tertiary levels and in the subjects of science and maths. Capacity development and awareness-raising are essential to empower women teachers to be both effective practitioners and gender advocates.
UNESCO also works to support gender equity in education, in terms of access and achievement through partnership with key organizations, research and production of guidelines and policy briefs. 



Minerva - Department of women's gender and sexuality studies
 at the  Ohio State University
Flickr



G-Souto
8.03.2011
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Gender Equality II: European girls drawing competion for ICT


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As I wrote on Gender Equality I, I began publishing some thematic posts about Gender Equality until March 7, 2011.

Today, my post is about the "European drawing competion to reward girls' creativity about the future technologies." announced by the National Innovation Office (Hungary), the European Commission’s Directorate General for Information Society and Media (DG INFSO) and the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) under the Hungarian EU Presidency 2011.




The aim of the competition was to encourage creativity in the field of new technologies and highlight the importance of developing innovative skills at an early age. 

Girls aged 6-16 from all schools in the 27 EU member states could participate in the  competition. There was two age categories: one for 6-12 and another for 13-16 years old girls.



Diana R, Romania (13 years old)

Entries could focus on two issues:  

• What would be interesting or fun to do on your computer / Internet that you cannot do right now? 

• What type of new ICT (information and communication technology) tool would you like to see to help you and your family’s life? 

The deadline of submission was 20th February 2011. And the winners and runners up of the competion has been informed by the organizers the 25th February. Read more here


Marina T., Slovenia (10 years old)

The winning contributions are already published on the competition's website "Women im Science, Innovation and Technologie in the Digital Age" conference, March 6-8, 2011 in Budapest, Hungary.

The organization received 672 drawings from Romania, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Malta and Hungary. 


Anastasia V., Greece (13 years old)
http://www.asszisztencia.hu

The drawing competition award ceremony with Commissioner Neelie Kroes will take place on Monday the 7th of March 2011 in Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 


Natalia A., Slovakia (11 years old)


The winners drawing will be exhibited on 7-8 March 2011 in the building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the  venue of the high-level conference hosting the Prize-Award Ceremony.

The winners and the runners-up will be invited together with one adult (to accompany them to Budapest) to participate in the Prize-Award Ceremony.


G-Souto
28.02.2011
Copyright © 2010G-Souto'sBlog, gsouto-digitalteacher.blogspot.com®

References:

Women in Science, Innovation and Technologie in the Digital Age Conference


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OECD 50th Anniversary Video Competion








As part of OECD’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, a video competition for young people has been launched.

To celebrate the OECD's 50th Anniversary, young people worldwide are invited to create a short video describing their vision of Progress.



If you are, or you know someone, aged between 18 and 25 and like making short videos, tell OECD what you think “Progress is...”. 

Read all the the Competion terms & conditions here

About the video:
  • No longer than three minutes;
  • Made in English or French (OECD’s two official languages);
  • Read more...


The competion is open since December 1st 2010 and closing date for submissions is midnight (Paris, France time) on 1 March 2011.

You can fill out the Registration form here

Upload your video on YouTube and register online before MIDNIGHT (Paris time) on 1 March 2011. Any videos and/or registration forms received after this time will not be considered.


A Special Jury (to be announced in February) will compile a shortlist of 20 videos, judged on a basis of creativity, substance, production value and overall impact. 

The 20 shortlisted videos will be announced and showcased on the OECD website and the OECD YouTube site from 21 March 2011.

The public will be invited to vote from 22 March to 14 April, 2011, via YouTube, the top three videos from the shortlist.

The winners will be announced on Friday 15 April 2001

Three lucky winners will be selected and invited to Paris in May, all-expenses-paid, for a special screening of the videos at the OECD Forum.

The video author (or nominated representative, if a team creation) of each winning video will be invited to Paris to attend the OECD 50th Anniversary Forum in May 2011. 
Travel costs to and from Paris, hotel accommodation and a living allowance will be provided for the duration of the Forum.

For more information, contact video@oecd.org.
You can join OECD on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.



Education:

High schools of Arts, students, free-lance movie makers, creative people.

Don't miss this opportunity to share your creativity and your ideas about progress.



Concours vidéo pour le Cinquantenaire de l’OCDE (Français). À lire ici


G-Souto
28.01.2011
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Credits: OECD 




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