Animate your lessons for FREE

One way to grab your students' attention is to present your ideas in videos. It saves time and engages most of their senses. Today, I am going to talk about a tool that allows teachers to create and share animated videos for free. These videos are full of life, and adds one's personality to the content delivered through creating their own characters. 

It is Animaker!

Here is the Tutorials page that will help you to get started:

https://www.animaker.com/tutorials

Icebreaker Activities

It was the first day at Indiana High School.

Students were excited to meet a teacher from
a different country. 

They designed a poster about Egypt and
prepared 47 questions for me to answer. 

To introduce myself,

I designed 2 activities with the help of
their teacher Mrs. Lori Dadson.

Class Level:

• The students have mild to severe disabilities.

What makes a creative teacher?

Retrieved on July 26, 2015

Just inspired by Marisa Constantinides' article "Eight steps to becoming a more creative teacher" shared on British Council Voices Blog. She suggests eight highly recommended steps that can help teachers develop their creativity in teaching. 

These are:

Missed the "Creativity in Teaching and Learning" Online Event ... Don't worry!

Are you interested in bringing life into your classrooms and motivate your students to learn and develop their skills in a different way? It is not an easy job I know, but you can do it. In case you missed the online event held by the British Council Seminar Series on Wednesday 24 June, 2015, don't worry you can watch it now and enjoy all the stuff shared by really creative people like Alan Maley, Marisa Constantinides, Malu Sciamarelli, Nik Peachey and more.  

2 Events on Creativity for FREE: June 17 & 24, 2015

How it would go if I were a creative teacher? Is it an easy job to start learning creativity? What tools should I have to bring creativity into my classrooms? A lot of questions like that come out when opening discussions around this term. Today, I have found 2 free online opportunities that can help teachers to discover some new ways to improve and foster creativity in them or their students ...  

WANT, but I have NOT

Sometimes, I feel I strongly want to write a story, but no words come out as powerful as my feelings and desire to express my inside. I am quite good at writing instructions and explanations to my students and colleagues, posts about my teaching experiences, or debates to explain my viewpoints with others. My problem arises when it comes to writing stories and descriptions.  

I know I have a great desire to start writing creatively. 

Check THREE Promising Courses by Coursera

Coursera launches many courses on September 2013. There are just three courses that catch my attention. My only criterion of choice is watching the instructors' introductory videos. You will not believe it. I know that these short videos are not enough to judge the quality of the whole experience, but they have a very great impact on learners before starting their journey of learning. Please check this great article by Sarah Linden to know more about the reasons behind using video introductions rather than text-based ones when creating your online courses.

Kindly explore each course info and choose what you need and add to your expertise: