I’ve made a goal to share one new thing from the web every day with my homegroup class and my project group (which is also taking part in Tournament of the Minds so we’re really focusing on thinking outside of the box).

My goal has emerged out of my own journeys around the internet: through my RSS feeds and through those sites to new sites or links, or links to projects, Youtube and other collating sites (and on and on until I need a walk in the bush or a bike ride!)

I started off  the term with the “Did you know?” (or here) clip which generated a lot of dicsussion and also provided a context for scaffolding deeper thinking, questioning and reflection skills. One child decided to use the format to create his own “Did you know?” using PowerPoint, which so far, looks pretty professional (I wonder how long it took him to create the spinning question marks, pretty cool!) All I said was “Y’know, that’s easily done on PowerPoint…”

I couldn’t help but share the post-it note animation. It was greatly appreciated and also promoted much laughter and discussion about turning the simple into the awesome!

Next, the neat Brainpickings gave me this technofuturism interactive art installation…

La Vitrine – Montreal from steven bulhoes on Vimeo.

 And from the hearty and colourful Gangsta Bride  via Studio Jelly (from my own personal RSS feeds, althought with me, learning is learning and I don’t separate my feeds anymore!) I’ve found an incredible use of Youtube and creativity where a piece of music has been created from many sources. An example of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. (A collaborative music and spoken word project by Darren Solomon and Youtube users). Imagine supporting children to create something like this? Wow.

Oh, and this one through Picocool…

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

 I post-script each sharing time with “Just a little something to think about…” and off they go…my goal is to provide them with as many examples of creative people doing creative things as possible.

So last one…I promise…remember before the internet when most local neighbourhood communication was done throught the humble flyer? Well, designer Cardon Webb has hijacked some fairly standard examples of the local flyer and created “aesthetically upgraded versions” like these…

 Ahhh…possibilities…