Wow! I was blown away by the Soundscapes from my classmates! Emily, Melissa, Sue and Ainslie were able to evoke powerful emotions from just simple sounds and images! Stephanie and Richard had funny, quirky stories! OK, so NOW I get where we were supposed to be going with this.
I am excited to explore the "Smoovie" program with my students at school...although I am going to start with iMovie trailers like the ones we just made in our morning class, as they are super-easy to make. In the context of a film course, the idea of beginning with found sounds and building a story around them is a great starting point to elicit creative ideas.
I wasn't sure about the "why" of this project before I started, which is why I didn't have much of a project to present :( But as I rode home last night, I was thinking about what it is that gets those creative juices flowing? How do you come up with ideas? Whether it is in writing class with my students, art class, or designing a birthday cake for my Mum, there is often an "aha' moment when someone comes up with the idea, and then everyone goes with it, and then the juices start flowing and the idea takes off. In a classroom, we need to provide appropriate explanations, then prompts, structures and scaffolding to get the creativity going. There: the nuts and bolts of creativity education.
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