Welcome to Cre8tive Havoc

The Motherblog for the students in room 2B1 at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate.

Free Reading Fridays

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” -Lemony Snicket

A BYOD Classroom

All devices welcomed!

Newspaper Blackout Poetry

"Creativity through subtraction" -Austin Kleon.

Wednesday 30 May 2012

TBL Project Tip - Animoto

Tuesday 29 May 2012

Twitter Challenge Week Two!

Last week's Twitter challenge was to Tweet at a "famous" person to get them to share their bucket list items. Remember that this challenge might require some polite persistence. You might have to Tweet at them multiple times before you get a response.

This week's Twitter challenge is to invite friends and family to join our bucket list conversation. Be strategic in who you invite, make sure it's a person who will contribute positively to the conversation. Have them Tweet an item or two @cre8tivehavoc and @you. I may even be convinced to award bonus marks for participating in this challenge!

Monday 28 May 2012

Reading and Writing Reflection #11

Once again this week we will be tweeting our Reading and Writing Reflections.

Your reading tweet should discuss your reading progress thus far, and could also contain a favourite line/quotation from the novel.  Feel free to use two tweets if you can't fit it all into one.

Your writing tweet should update your progress in your Buried Life project.  What have you completed and what is your goal for the rest of the week?

Also, today you should be tweeting the 13/14th item of your bucket list.

Thursday 24 May 2012

TBL Project: Tip #3

Wednesday 23 May 2012

TBL Project Tip #2

Work smarter, not harder! Make a google map that incorporates all of the travel "to dos" on your bucket list.  Put in a pin for each destination, write a couple of sentences explaining why you want to travel there, and add a pic of a specific thing you'd like to see.  Once you've created your map, cut and paste the URL into a blog post. 

Example Map-

http://g.co/maps/ra5jb

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Reading and Writing Reflection #10

Reading Reflection #10:

To use one or two Twitter posts to update your reading progress so far.

The Girl i/t Steel Corset (203) my 1rst steampunk book. I enjoy the dark mystery, a great change from all the Dystopian fic I've been reading. @cre8tivehavoc

Anybody else read any steampunk? Or tired of dystopian fiction? The Hunger Games was great, but I'm tired of all the copycat books. @creat8tivehavoc

Cut and paste your tweets into a blog post titled "Reading Reflection #10"

Writing Reflection #10:

Tweet about your progess on your Buried Life project thus far, as well as your game plan for the upcoming week.

Cut and paste your tweets into a blog post titled "Writing Reflection #10"

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Day One- Starting Your "Buried Life Project"

In yesterday's class I introduced the final project for the year, which is creating a mini/blog version of your own "Buried Life" book.  If you weren't here yesterday then scroll down and read yesterday's post and then come back to this one.

In today's class we will be getting started on this project. Here is your "to do list" for today:

(1) As usual, tweet one more item off your list.
(2) Type and post your entire "bucket list" on your blog. Feel free write "omitted due to school appropriateness" or "omitted due to personal reasons" for items on your list that are too personal to share or are questionable for school content.
(3) Add a comment to this post that details your plans for your "Buried Life" project.  For example, discuss what might be the focus of your "Now What" story, how you are going to approach creating your visuals, and any specific supplies you are going to need to bring with you to class to work on the project.
(4) If you finish 1-3 on this list, go back and make sure you've completed this week's Reading and Writing Reflection (scroll down for the deets)


** Twitter Challenge**
For those of you that are up to it, I am issuing a Twitter challenge!

I challenge you to tweet at a "famous person" (athlete, author, actor, etc.) Ask them what is on their bucket list, and see if they answer you.  You might have to be politely persistent to get a response . . .

Monday 14 May 2012

Reading and Writing Reflection #9

This week we are going to be continuing our focus on Twitter!

Reading Reflection #9 will be:

(1) To use one or two Twitter posts to update your reading progress so far.

The Girl i/t Steel Corset (203) my 1rst steampunk book. I enjoy the dark mystery, a great change from all the Dystopian fic I've been reading. @cre8tivehavoc

Anybody else read any steampunk? Or tired of dystopian fiction?  The Hunger Games was great, but I'm tired of all the copycat books. @creat8tivehavoc

Cut and paste your tweets into a blog post titled "Reading Reflection #9"

Writing Reflection #9 (200 words):

- How's your Tweeting going?  Surprises? Successes? Goals?
- How's your "Things to Do Before I Die" list going?  Surprises? Successes? Goals?

Add this as a blog posting titled "Writing Reflection #9" and cut and paste it as a comment attached to this post on the Cre8tive Havoc blog.

Thursday 10 May 2012

The Buried Life ReTweet!

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Why Twitter? Here's an Answer.


Something to think about as we embark on our Twitter journey. . . .

Publishing!

Finish publishing your newspaper blackout poetry:
(1) Post your poems up the hallway outside the room.
(2) Post pics of all three of your poems on your blog.
(3) E-mail pics of all three to me not48effect@photos.flickr.com
(4) Select your best poem at visit:

http://newspaperblackout.com/submit

Fill in the form with the following info:

  • a title
  • your name
  • age
  • city, province, country
  • link to your blog
Attach pic of poem, and you are DONE!

Visit: http://www.smithteens.com/ and submit your six word memoirs

Visit: http://www.smithmag.net/themoment/ and submit your moment story

Tweet the first item on your list:

1.___________________________ @cre8tivehavoc @theburiedlife #ourburiedlife

Tuesday 8 May 2012

Interesting article about "The Buried Life" gentlemen trying to cross #78 Fall in Love off their list.  Is fall in love on your list?  Why? Why not? What number is it? Why?

http://www.usforacle.com/mobile/news/the-buried-life-returns-to-bring-love-to-campus-1.2732435

Sunday 6 May 2012

Shout Out From Austin Kleon

Guess what y'all? Austin Kleon gave us a shout out ON HIS BLOG!!!!


http://newspaperblackout.com/post/22380971424/ms-mclauchlan-msmclauchlan-high-school-english

Newspaper Blackout Poetry

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Friday 4 May 2012

Virtual Book Chat


(1)Join the virtual book chat http://www.todaysmeet.com/havoc as we read and discuss the book "What Do You Want to Do Before You Die" by the Buried Life.

(2)What could we do with this?  How could this guide what we do for the rest of the semester?  Add your suggestions/comments to this post.

(3) Venture out into the hall to follow the post it notes comments and see how the conversations have evolved.

Thursday 3 May 2012

More on Instagram

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Publishing Your Poetry


Today is publishing day!

(1) Post your poems up the hallway outside the room.
(2) Post pics of all three of your poems on your blog.
(3) E-mail pics of all three to me  not48effect@photos.flickr.com
(4) Select your best poem at visit:

http://newspaperblackout.com/submit

Fill in the form with the following info:
  • a title
  • your name
  • age
  • city, province, country
  • link to your blog
Attach pic of poem, and you are DONE!  Congratulations you've published your trio of poems!