Finally-- the Question

I'm finally adding my big question--it's this:
How can implementing technology enhance student creativity and feelings of success?

It's been a great time since my last blog. The kids in my class are very keen on learning, and especially so when it relates to technology. We've been doing a fair amount of Ginny's artworks lessons lately. If you haven't done any of them, they're a lot of fun. The Mondrian one is a great place to start, and the Ted Harrison one is a lot of fun. The image here is one from Ginny's site.

Click here for a link to Ginny's artworks lessons

For some kids, it's really freeing to be creative and artistic when they may not have the manual skills that drawing entails. And, computer-wise, we're learning all that great vocabulary and techie skills that will let them soar in a little while. A couple of kids are working on making imovies right now, and they've recorded their voices reading stories they've written, created their own songs in garageband, and are about to add their imagery. I'm just starting off with a few kids as we are soon upgrading our computers at school, and I didn't want kids to get frustrated with technical glitches. The kids that complete this part will then be sort of like peer-tutors to help out the other kids soon. It's pretty cool getting kids to help kids, and it's pretty empowering for them to be able to do so. Right now, things are good!

I went to the iLife session presented by Gary, Tom and James today and it was great. I was wondering how others are doing with posting kids' podcasts. It'd be neat so see some cool things kids are doing.