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*some non-digital activities were also added (upon request)

Marisa Constantinides,
Teacher Educator - Director of CELT Athens
Teacher Development Centre

Brainstorm as many
unsual uses of this
object with your team

You win if you have
more than the other
team but the uses
must be unusual!

@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / Brazil TESOL Edutech 2012

Creative
potential
Language
Use

Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr / Brazil TESOL Edutech 2012

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Aspects of Creative Thinking


Elements of Relationship to
creative Language Production
behaviour
Fluency Ability to produce large Easy & ready flow of talk;
numbers of ideas production of sustained
talk
Flexibility Ability to produce Ability to follow & respond
diverse ideas (not the to changes in conversation;
same kind)

Elaboration Ability to add on to and Ability to avoid simplistic
embellish an already responses; ability to
existing idea improve set phrases and
embellish them; useful for
writing
Originality Ability to produce Ability to produce novel
uncommon, 'clever' utterances; avoidance of
ideas clichés

What’s on the other half of the picture? Describe
it to a friend who must draw it

What’s on the other
half of the picture?


Improvise a
conversation with all
three people

What are they
saying?

What are they
thinking?


An idea inspired by
Spike Milligan’s
totally mad
captions in his
book “Transports
of Delight”,
Sidgwick and
Jackson; First
Edition edition
(1974)

Write a strange/crazy caption


Here is what Spike Milligan wrote in his
book Transport of Delight


How I met the
Queen!

The joke which
made the queen
laugh

A day in the life of Advice I was given
(one of the before I met the
ladies) Queen



@Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens -
info@celt.edu.gr - ISTEK Schools
International Conference 2010

e.g.
a. Keep asking questions
b. Keep making statements
or
c. Avoid asking questions

e.g.

• In a group, discuss the winning film at the Oscars
but adopt a different role each, e.g. a policeman
outside the Academy Awards building, a famous
film director, another contestant who lost, a film
critic, etc.

Brainstorming:
List as many words/ideas/phrases as you can connected to

– Rain
– Space travel


 Take opposing sides to a problem, e.g.
◦ for & against eating ice creams

Hold an argument contradicting each other for as long as
you possibly can.


 You were seen chewing the Choose a
predicament for
each member of
chewing the corner of a carpet in the opposing
team
a furniture shop
Challenge them
 You were seen gluing apples to a with it

tree outside your house at Best explanation
wins!
midnight
 You were seen sticking knives and
forks into your front lawn

Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr
Brazil TESOL 2012 Edutech

Hold a conversation with a partner – each one of you
has one of these two preoccupations – try to draw the
conversation to yours without interrupting in a rude
way.

Record your conversation on your mobile phone – use
video as well if you have it


So far, we have looked at activities which ‘practise’ aspects of
creativity singly or in combination of two or three.

Time to show you a number of online/digital activities which offer
practice opportunities of the ‘whole skill’


• It’s important to increase % of creative as most class materials (and coursebook materials, notably) focus on Lower
Order Thinking Skills – LOTS according to Blooms (revised) taxonomyof educational objectives shown below

Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering

• Some online resources which respond well to the different educational objectives in Bloom’s
taxonomy

Ted talks, you tube, chats. twitter,
emails, ppts prezis Pecha Kuchas

Facebook, twitter, forums, blog
comments
Google search, wikipedia, e-
books
Classroom Communication activities,
collaborative projects

Reading / listening comprehension/
picking language out of authentic date

Mnemonics, contextualisation, imagery,
associations, Book marking, Evernote
(summarising, Curating

Marisa Constantinides CELT Athens - info@celt.edu.gr Brazil TESOL 2012 Edutech

Look at the headline; brainstorm as many YES/NO questions as you can in 3 mins.
Ask your teacher (who will answer but only with a YES or a NO)

Watch the related video by following this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvkC4t2d9Ok

Write a short report after watching the news programme


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www.fodey.com Edutech

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/serene-branson-speaks-abo_n_824939.html


a. Expansion activities
e.g. a. Ask as many questions as you can about this picture (YES/NO questions)

Then read the
article on the next
page and check for
answers


You win a point if
the text does NOT
answer the question
– you lose a point if
it DOES 

From the Guardian Weekly


Rewrite the story
using all the new facts
which you added to it


Screenshots of two students collaborating using
www.primarypad.com


Collaborative Stories

http://storybird.com/books/my-friends-and-their-pets/

Creating Animations
•Xtranormal
•Creaza
•Animoto
•Voicethread
•Goanimate

http://marisaconstan
tinides.edublogs.org
/2010/10/27/animat
ed-stories/
(a useful blog post) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6272529/fu
ture-tenses

A video made
by students

Music Videos -Work With the Lyrics

Song Lyrics jumbled up – Ss
write own lines using words

 In plain English
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVnfyradCPY

 Bombay TV
 Overstream
 Students’ own productions emailed or
uploaded to You Tube

An example of how a student can prepare and deliver a 1-min monologue
(with props if needed) as a famous artist or scientist


Ss draw images and
make a video of a
song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur0OMTHKRKk


An article for teacher educators and teacher self-help groups
http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/04/13/the-art-of-being-creative


My email
info@celt.edu.gr
My Twitter ID
http://twitter.com/Marisa_C
My Centre
www.celt.edu.gr
My Blogs
http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/
http://celtathens.wordpress.com/
More about me
http://www.celt.edu.gr/Marisa_Constantinides.htm

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