📺 Ditch Summit: Spark your creativity, passion, and inspiration

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🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎

🎨 4 creative, hands-on FigJam activities for class tomorrow

What can your students do with FigJam, the free collaborative whiteboard app with tons of creative tools and features?

In this Spotlight Sponsor Session — “Fun, Collaborative, Visual Learning That Works with FigJam” — Figma’s David Curran shared these four ideas:

1st grade: Make math visual

Don’t just answer math subtraction questions. Color in the circles and then cross circles out. Use the voice memo tool to let students explain how they solve problems. Then have some fun coloring in math monsters!

5th grade: Draw and label plants

Students can use the pencil tool and highlighter tools to draw parts of a plant. Then they can drag in custom labels to identify the different parts.

7th grade: Multimedia timeline

Organize new content by year. Color code the different time periods with flow chart blocks. Add images, links, and other multimedia.

11th grade example: Read around a poem

Students can work together in groups to analyze a piece of writing. They can highlight different literary devices and use sticky notes to answer questions or discuss ideas together.

🎉 Loving these ideas? Check out the FigJam session, where you can make a copy of the FigJam file David used, download the notes, and get a certificate of completion for PD credit.

🔎 WATCH: Creative, Visual Student Activities with FigJam

📺 CATEGORY COLLECTIONS 📺

❤️ Watch these videos on creativity, passion, and inspiration

Category Collections are new this year!

We have eight collections. In each one, you’ll find nine hand-picked videos on a variety of topics within the category.

Today, we’re highlighting the Creativity, Passion, and Inspiration collection — sure to create a spark as you start the new year!

Here’s what’s in the collection …

Becoming a Creative (with Sam Kary) — In this session we did in partnership with the Soundtrap EDU Summit, Sam Kary shares his journey becoming someone who creates and shares — along with the ups and downs of it.

Filling the World with Wonder (with Brad Montague) — In this session, Kid President co-creator Brad Montague shares the origin of his YouTube sensation and how to keep a sense of wonder in ourselves and in our students.

Infusing Creativity into Teaching, Learning, and Life (with Austin Kleon) — Steal Like an Artist author Austin Kleon lives out creativity in his everyday life. See how his habits and practices can cross over into your classroom.

Other sessions in the Creativity, Passion and Inspiration category:

• Putting the Arts in STEAM to Empower Student Voice with Jeannine Flores and Tim Needles

• Teach with Passion and Engagement — Like a Pirate with Dave Burgess

• The Playful Classroom and Life with Jed Dearybury and Julie Jones

• The Purpose of Classroom Creativity with Ben Forta

• Using Improv and Theater Techniques to Unlock Creativity with Natasha Jain and Batsheva Frankel

• Using Your Personal Passion to Electrify Teaching with Toney Jackson

Watch any Ditch Summit session from previous years on the Ditch Summit Video Library page any time.