Eclectic Technology

"Studying abroad is a great way to find growth, career inspiration, and great experiences, but so many students today don’t get to experience this type of learning. In fact, only 1% of all students enrolled in higher education institutions today choose to study abroad...Read on to learn why studying abroad is such an important experience, and why many believe that study abroad programs should be required for higher education studen."

"As both a consumer and curator of information, I spend a great deal of time thinking about the architecture of knowledge. Over the past year, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about a fundamental disconnect in the “information economy”: In an age of information overload, information discovery — the service of bringing to the public’s attention that which is interesting, meaningful, important, and otherwise worthy of our time and thought — is a form of creative and intellectual labor, and one of increasing importance and urgency. A form of authorship, if you will...."

A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.

From the Wildlife Conservation Society and the New York Aquarium and Zoons come BuiLD YouR WiLD SeLF. First you design your human self, and then you choose your favorite animal parts and "go wild." When you are done you can save it to your desktop or share it with a friend. This could be a great tool to use to create a character for a story.

>Marvelous photo effects with a single click

>Get Creative with 190 easy-to-use photo effects in 30 different categories

Creative Something helps us touch that creative spark within us. This post looks back at some of the posts for 2011, ones you may find motivational or inspirational...a new blog to me, and perhaps to you.

If you are feeling that you are stuck in rut and need to be more creative here are 101 "tips to change your usual mental patterns,"

How about;
* Taking a walk and looking for something interesting.

* Opening up the dictionary to find a new word and then use the word in a sentence. 

* Taking a different route to school.

Another 98 ideas are available in the post!

"It is not uncommon for many of us to have thoughts and ideas rustling around in our heads with the inability to get them out onto paper. This is referred to as a creative barrier or block, which most of us have become all too familiar with at one time or another.

This graphic is filled with tips that will help you in getting out of your creative rut and back into the swing of things."

Are you interested in learning more about Connected Learning? Check out this website for more information. The site discusses what is connected learning, sponsors a weekly webinar, has case studies and much more.

Act 1 - a video that sets up the problem to be solved and raises questions; Act 2 - additional information provided to help solve the problem and more questions; Act 3 - the result with the video back with new information plus a sequel. Authentic math to challenge learners!

I teach in an inquiry, project-based, technology embedded classroom. A mouthful, I know. So what does that mean? To begin with, I don’t lecture. My students don’t take notes, at least not in the traditional sense, and we don’t read a novel and simply answer the questions.