On Friday's PD, staff was given 3 minutes to brainstorm ideas on the theme of innovation and then pick the one they thought was best or that they wanted to work on. Here's the list. Notice any commonalities?
Innovation Notes
Brainstorming session led by Joyce 8-21-09
o Order books from SF public library online (students)
o Computer-aide music program – GarageBand
o Using blogs or the idea of text messaging in terms of communication
o Using library catalog ---move from cards(history/past) to electronic(now/present)
o Science – experiment --- follow directions -- innovate
o Look around --- observe --- think what you see -- create….
o Have kids create their own way to measure wind or rain
o Identify strength & area of need. Students help each other create toolbox rather than reinvent the wheel.
o Research that leads to prevention/cure of AIDS
o Innovative places/ways to write
o Recruitment for MathCounts- Dailies, posters, visit classrooms, rewards, integrate into curriculum
o Create your own game; make your own equipment for the game
o Student needs collaboration between services for success
o Show ‘n Tell: At least 3 times during the year, create something at home & tell how you made it & what it’s for
o New extensions on topics
o Deepen understanding
o Use types of cooking or different foods to design clay bowls appropriate to the food.
o Creative reuse of familiar object. Eg.- Galileo used opera glasses technology to make telescope
o Design paper, cardboard or wooden airplanes through looking at existing test planes
o Expressing creatively through self portraits
o Reading comics –encourages writing – reading – overcoming fear of self expression
o What can you do to create a process/organizer/check sheet for an essay or edit a paper that works for you
o Using innovative strategies in working with middle school girls…
o Early communities and collaboration
o Earth Day. Give a simple item for child to create something new
o Redesigning challenges
o Back to School Night during the day
o Local history ---- architecture---Academy of Sciences, GG Bridge, City Hall --- EQ retrofit --- seismology
o Ending with your product
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Innovation Song/Video
Here's the Innovation song/video through another link besides Youtube. Hopefully it can be seen at school now, though it is on a small screen.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Innovation Song/Video
Success! I have to remember to copy 'the embed' code from the youtube site and then just paste it into my blog post. The blogger help videos are actually quite helpful!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Spirit of Saint Louis
Louis Armstrong recorded "When the Saints Go Marching In," in 1938 and the song has remained a tried and true staple of American Music since then. There are close to 1,000 different recordings of the song, and the song received the distinction of being named a "Towering Song" by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. When a song achieves that level of fame, it becomes known as a "standard." Here you can listen to eleven different versions of the song by artists as different as Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, the Cincinnati Symphony, Fats Domino, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, James Brown, and even the Beatles, whose version was on the "B" side of the their first commercial release in 1961. But it's Satchmo's version that people turn to capture that familiar New Orleans Spirit.
When the song was first played, the traditional use of the song was as a funeral march. In New Orleans, accompanying the coffin to the cemetary, the band would play the song slow and sad, but on the way back, after the funeral, the song would be played in an upbeat tempo. Louis said this about this tradition of the returning funeral parade, "the second line is a bunch of guys who follow the parade. They're not the members of the lodge or the club. Anybody can be a second liner. Whether they be raggedy or dressed up, they seemed to have more fun than anybody."
When the Saints Go Marching In
We are trav'ling in the footsteps
Of those who've gone before
But we'll all be reunited (but if we stand reunited)
On a new and sunlit shore (then a new world is in store)
O when the saints go marching in
When the saints go marching in
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine
And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the moon turns red with blood
When the moon turns red with blood
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
On that hallelujah day
On that hallelujah day
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
O when the trumpet sounds the call
O when the trumpet sounds the call
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
Some say this world of trouble
Is the only one we need
But I'm waiting for that morning
When the new world is revealed
When the revelation (revolution) comes
When the revelation (revolution) comes
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the rich go out and work
When the rich go out and work
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When the air is pure and clean
When the air is pure and clean
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When we all have food to eat
When we all have food to eat
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
When our leaders learn to cry
When our leaders learn to cry
O Lord I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
OPENING ACTIVITY — MACHINE IMPROV
Mary Ann got the ball rolling with an idea...
we could do groups creating human rube goldberg machines.. then set them in motion to a rhythm someone in the group beats out and then have someone in the group film it or snap it. whichever groups want to get up and share can. then post/display them for all to enjoy!
ties in rube,tech,innovation, music,creative movement, improv,collaboration, creativity and fun!
in improv/theatre games it is called,"make an offer, take an offer", or the "yes, and..." game, where you take a suggestion and , add to it, tweak it, modify it..etc. so this is a starting place.. let's see where it will evolve into something fun for our starter!
A few more ideas get tossed in...
Maybe with the sound that you can incorporate your name in some interesting way to go with your movement? Maybe try adding the red ball in somehow too? And then of course you be sure to add the big invisible steering wheel or button adjust for the machines sound volume and speed.
...and we share some video examples of what we are talking about...
Improv Warm-Ups: Machines -- powered by eHow.com
The Warm Up activity goals are:
- Make sure everyone introduces themselves.
- Make sure that everyone can feel comfortable enough to say something, but keep it moving so you don't get anyone stopping the activity from picking up momentum.
- Make sure that you encourage people to work in a variety of social interactions: together in a big groups, in small groups (or partnering) and individually (quiet journaling + out there crazy collaborative games).
- Make sure that there is built in success for everyone.
- Make sure that it's fun, fun, fun.
- After everyone has fun, fun, fun, be sure to deconstruct the lesson in an engaging way. (so everyone understands the step — break it down — so they can duplicate the activity with their kids in the classroom)
- Allow for comments/reflection/journaling.
- Give everyone a take away sheet that outlines the activity so they have a way to remember. And put that info online for downloading too.
Monday, August 10, 2009
What to do with Your Leftover Post-It Notes...
Thought you might enjoy this Post-It Animation on YouTube.
The post-its would be a good material for kids to play with.
DEADLINE post-it stop motion
Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Ian Vargo, Shaun Burdick
Actor: Chun-yao Huang
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Ian Vargo, Shaun Burdick
Actor: Chun-yao Huang
This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its.
And if you are wondering how they did it, and how much time it took..
DEADLINE the making of
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