Nine Creativity Killers Again

#1. I Kill Creativity when I encourage Renting (borrowing) instead of Owning ideas.
# 2. I Kill Creativity when I Assign Grades without providing Informative Feedback.
# 3. I Kill Creativity when I allow Cliché Symbols to substitute for Original or Observed Representation of Experience.
# 4. I Kill Creativity when I Demonstrate instead of having students Practice.
# 5. I Kill Creativity when I Show an Example instead of Defining a Problem.
# 6. I Kill Creativity when I Praise Neatness and Conformity more than Expressive Original work.
# 7. I Kill Creativity when I give Freedom without Focus
# 8. I Kill Creativity by Making Suggestions instead of asking Open Questions.
# 9. I Kill Creativity if I Give an Answer instead of teaching Problem Solving methods.

Flash Animations

Can't wait to see the final results of these grade eight animation projects. The quality of the images is outstanding. We're getting good results using the Canon ZR20 digital camcorder on stop-time. The digital video is imported into Adobe Premier, and then the clip is sped up to about 800 fps. This gets the animation moving.

After that, the movie is exported as .avi, then imported into Flash MX.

In Flash, the students will add the layers of sound.

We're using the Windows Sound Recorder as much as possible. First Class will help us move files around from one student to the next.

Flash is an excellent tool for these movies. The playback is completely resizable and plays on any PC.

I'm Baaack!


Traced with Flash MX. It's me, but not really me...