Creativity Contract

Madison Brett and Sara Schuster

1.  Lesson Activity (20 points)

We used a lesson plan model from different education class that taught us how to incorporate music/technology into the classroom.  We came up with a thorough lesson plan that teaches the dynamics of music.  Therefore, the technology in this lesson plan would be the music (video below).  This promotes creativity because it allows the student to come up with/create examples of different songs that display the dynamics of music

2.  Mobile Devices (10 points)

- We chose 5 different mobile apps, that incorporate creativity and ranked them based on our likings.  The results are below:

1. Facebook - We have used this app the longest and we are most familiar with facebook, which is why we ranked it first!  It is an app that we both use very often.  It promotes creativity because you are able to upload and edit your own pictures, make your own status by writing whatever you feel like to share with your friends/public, and it also allows you to write whatever you like on different friend’s walls.  Facebook really allows you to post whatever you feel like which lets people get creative in their posts/pictures. 

2. Instagram - This application is fairly new compared to facebook.  It allows you to edit photos, and it posts them on your instagram account.  It is really cool because you can take a picture that you took on your phone with the regular camera, and then enhance it in so many ways.  You can change the colors of the photos, tag your friends, and add captions.  It also allows you to follow certain people, and for certain people to follow you – so that your creativity (picture editing) is made known to all of your friends and followers.

3. Twitter - Twitter is another application that really promotes creativity, as it allows you to create your own tweets, incorporate pictures in your tweets, and follow different people and groups.  Twitter is another one of our favorite apps because it allows us to stay connected not only with close friends, but also with news around the world.  One of my teachers even got so creative as to make a twitter account for our class so that we could follow it and access her announcements through another form of communcation instead of email or eLc.  Twitter really allows you to write and post whatever you like, which is a big factor in creativity.

4. Pinterest - Pinterest is an app that looks like a bulletin board that is divided up into different categories such as food, exercise, education, etc.  Each category has different pins (recipes, workouts, clothes, etc.) relating to that category.  It also allows you to get creative and make your own pins to publish to the website.  Again, pinterest allows you to follow your friends, and for them to follow you.  Once you repin something that you like, it stays in your account until you delete it!  We really like pinterest because it has so many awesome crafts that you can do at home, such as painting and making different things.  It also has a ton of great recipes!  Pinterest really does show off people's creativity, and it allows you to be creative yourself.

5. PicStitch - PicStitch is another awesome app for mobile devices because it allows you to take as many different pictures as you want, and "stitch" them together to make one picture.  For example, a lot of people will stitch together a "before" picture and an "after" picture so that you can see the differences in one picture instead of flipping between the two.  PicStitch allows you to get creative and stitch together anything you want. Even though this is ranked last on our list, it is still an awesome app that we use frequently!

-All of the apps we mentioned above are FREE!  However, there are tons of more apps available that promote creativity.