Required Reading

Sir Ken Robinson believes creativity is being systematically eliminated by our education system. Further, he believes that this very creativity is what will make economies successful in the future. Here is a transcript from his speech to the National Forum on Educational Policy and a very similar speech at TED.

Plotbot

Plotbot uses wiki technology to allow people (students) to collaboratively write screenplays. It is free and is another great Web 2.0 tool for the classroom. I think students would have a lot of fun creating screenplays together. The tool also takes care of some of the most difficult aspects of writing and assessing screenplays as a group (who contributed, a final document, etc).