{"id":5660,"date":"2012-05-24T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:27:00","slug":"creative-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/creative-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Creative-ideas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5661\" style=\"border: 4px solid black; margin: 10px;\" title=\"Creative ideas\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Creative-ideas-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Creative-ideas-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Creative-ideas.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Did you know that text messaging was first invented by cell phone carriers to let customers know about problems with their networks? As people started using it, they discovered that text messages could be used to communicate with one another. Yep, that\u2019s how this text messaging frenzy all got started. It\u2019s really rather fascinating to me to discover so many services and products that today have become common and popular through \u201cunintended uses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A kind of silly example is one of the latest applications of\u00a0Scotch tape. You know the stuff, clear cellophane and sticky.\u00a0No, I\u2019m not talking about the craze of duct tape wallets and\u00a0belts but rather actual sculpture art created by using tape.\u00a0Seriously, someone came up with the idea to use tape to create\u00a0sculpture, and now it is a well-developed art form?<\/p>\n<p>This emphasizes the need to embrace the new, try the \u201cunintended\u201d\u00a0and really think outside the box. How can we do the same in our\u00a0teaching? Can you come up with \u201cunintended\u201d ways of using or\u00a0re-using activities, projects or even crafts to teach? Instead\u00a0of doing that which is common, try something different. And\u00a0remember, our students always love anything that doesn\u2019t look like\u00a0schoolwork!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What are some of the really creative ideas that you have implemented\u00a0or come across in your teaching career?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Learn more\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/courses\/course-catalog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take a course<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  Did you know that text messaging was first invented by cell phone carriers to let customers know about problems with their networks? As people started using it, they discovered that text messages could be used to communicate with one another. Yep, that\u2019s how this text messaging frenzy all got started. It\u2019s really rather [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[562,561,563],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24670,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/24670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}