Creativity is a key aspect of learning today with pupils and teachers looking at ever increasingly creative approaches to teaching and learning.  Digital creativity uses technology to enhance and facilitate that process.  Animation brings life to inanimate objects, telling stories and explaining events, and can be effectively used to focus on non verbal communication.  Presentation tools like PowerPoint and Keynote, and online versions like Prezi allow the user to present in word and picture, embedding sound and video to produce multimedia presentations for teaching and learning.  Film and stills can be imported into iMovie to produce mono- or bilingual plays; Photostory can be used to present on Intercultural Understanding for example.  In language learning, communication is key and creativity is part and parcel of being effective communicators.

Questions

-Can you involve a whole class in the task or would it be a small group activity?     

-How might this be used to link languages and other areas of the curriculum?

Activity

When completing the celebration of work at the end of units, you might encourage pupils to respond creatively using multimedia and digital creativity tools to deliver short presentations in word, picture and sound. They could then stage a 'premiere' of their work in front of a panel of 'critics' (e.g. classmates, staff, parents).