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Showing posts with label inspiring creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiring creativity. Show all posts
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Inspiring students when school is closed: Game Design Club for middle school

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In Michigan our students will be out of school from March 13 through the end of summer. In an effort to inspire students to create and lea...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

Updated Creativity Game for 2019

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This week I presented an updated version of what has been the most popular post on this blog for years. I used a different tech tool this ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Making a Story Together - High school and elementary connections for authentic audience and engagement

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We recently tried another interactive story experiment connecting older students with younger students. As always, the goal with this is to ...
Thursday, August 4, 2016

Two Great Tools for Creative Presentation Options - Think beyond PowerPoint

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Update 11-25-2016:  I still love Adobe Spark, but I've learned a couple things since I used it more in the classroom this year. First, u...
Sunday, May 22, 2016

Game Design Virtual Club - Part 3 - Developing your ideas

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I've been running a virtual club about game design for some middle school students. The first post in the series is here . Below I ha...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Running a Game Design Virtual Club in Google Classroom

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This week we started the virtual club through Google Classroom! I recently got the idea to run a virtual club at our middle school. I p...
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

Two simple, free tools for adding text to pictures

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I recently came across these two very simple tools that will add text to a picture in no time. If you're on Facebook or Twitter, I...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Game Design in the Classroom - Part 4 - Developing and Publishing a Game

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One of my old design notebooks and some prototypes This is part 4 of a series. The previous articles are: What I learned from making g...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Game Design in the Classroom - Part 3 - A Game Design Challenge

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Years ago I used to organize an annual convention for game designers. At a few of the events I ran a game design challenge where the parti...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Game Design in the Classroom - Part 2 - What other designers learned from making games

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Protospiel game designer convention I helped organize (quite a few years ago now!) This is part 2 of a series. The previous articles ar...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Game Design in the Classroom - Part 1 - What I learned

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An early handmade version of my game What's It To Ya? This is the first in a series. The second is about what others learned from ma...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Creativity, Passion and Meaningful Contribution in School

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Last week I had the privilege of presenting as part of the Education On Air conference . Jake Gentry and I did a session on my process of cr...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Three Simple Tutorials for Creative Project Based Learning

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I'm preparing for a P^3BL session I'll lead this weekend and all that work is filtering into my Teaching Like an Artist  blog. I di...
Sunday, December 8, 2013

Teaching Like an Artist

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New for 2014: Follow the continuing Teaching Like an Artist series on TeachingLikeanArtist.com . I had a lot of chances to express mysel...
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Going Low Tech This Week - week four of the Smart Jams math and music video project

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(This post is part of a series highlighting work in a project funded by a MACUL grant . See my Music Creation page for complete information...