Brainstorming

Brainstorming allows students to generate and reflect on creative ideas.

Brainstorming Tools:
Graphic Organizer Tool: Bubblus or Bubblus Beta- a collaborative, easy to use, online graphic organizer tool. Wallwisher is a free sticky note tool you could share with students, so they could submit their ideas.

For Text Brainstorming: TypeWith.me Create a space, invite collaborators, then brainstorm.

Additional Brainstorming Tools

===Students will develop a video public service announcement that promotes language learning and provides the audience with compelling reasons why students should be developing proficiency in more than one language!===

NETS (National Education Technology Standards) for Students
Standard #2 Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
 * Communication and Collaboration**
 * 1) interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media.
 * 2) communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
 * 3) develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.
 * 4) contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems.

Global Empathy...Dan Pink...?

Connections:
Around the World in 80 Schools Flat Classroom Project Rock Our World Global Education Conference

Be Creative!
Food for Thought YouTube's Virtual Choir media type="custom" key="7466207"

This video is not something you could use, but shows creativity and thinking outside the box. media type="custom" key="7465603" External Link: One Semester of Spanish Love Song