The work that folks did for #30daysofcreativity continues to astound, weeks after. This fine example of kinetic typography is just one of many, and fitting for the topic of how to get better at being creative. Ira Glass explains why you just have to keep going, even when your initial attempts, or years of attempts, fall… Read more »
Posts Tagged: #30daysofcreativity
Boomerang! (Almost…): 30 Days of Creativity, Day 30
When I was in 8th grade, I had a successful stint as maker of wooden boomerangs. As in, like, I could take a piece of baltic birch plywood and turn it into an apparatus that would fly back to you in a loping elipse when you chucked it into the air. So I figured we’d… Read more »
Summer Fare (30 Days of Creativity: Day 29)
Sometimes, the ingredients come together just right, and even a simple dish is delicious enough to make your taste buds ache. That happened around dinner time tonight as I prepared a hearty summer salad-type dish that only works when you have vine-ripe tomatoes on hand: Tomato, Corn & Bean Summer Salad 2 ears fresh sweet… Read more »
The Areas of Our Expertise (30 Days of Creativity, Day 28)
When I told the colleagues and contributors I used to work with through Science Progress that I was leaving my job to teach, they’d usually assume that I was headed to a science classroom. “I wish,” I’d say, “But I only took one science class in college. I’m not qualified.” I love science, science journalism,… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.