Student+Resources

Please feel free to add links and ideas that will help students participate in Genius Hour. ||
 * ==**Genius Hour Resources for Students**==
 * ** ARTICLES: **

Google's 80/20 Principle Applies to Students []

How 30 Minutes a Day Can Increase Your Intelligence - @http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-half-an-hour-a-day-can-increase-your-intelligence.html

How Geniuses Think (skip to second half) - http://www.creativitypost.com/create/how_geniuses_think#.T5yDi5rO9gU

Five Steps To Becoming an Expert - @http://www.bakadesuyo.com/5-steps-to-becoming-an-expert-59732

The"Best" Resources For Learning about the 10,000 Hour Rule and Deliberate Practice, collected by Larry Ferlazzo @http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/07/21/the-best-resources-for-learning-about-the-10000-hour-rule-deliberative-practice/

20% Projects are 100% Awesome []


 * VIDEOS for INSPIRATION: **

What is Genius Hour? []

Genius Hour: Follow Your Passion []

Personal Learning and Creation Time by [|Philip McIntosh] [] Instructable mentioned in video: []

Mr. Rogers Remix - Garden of Your Mind - []

Caine's Arcade - @http://vimeo.com/40000072

Caine's Arcade... the sequel! - @http://gizmodo.com/5943165/caines-arcade-2-that-awesome-kids-arcade-gets-a-sequel

Pep Talk from Kid President to You - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l-gQLqv9f4o

13-Year-Old Genius Builds Generators - Self-Taught African Teen Wows MIT www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLOLrUBRBY

Richard St. John - The Power of Passion - @http://ed.ted.com/lessons/richard-st-john-the-power-of-passion

Matt Cutts - Try Something New for 30 Days - @http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days.html

What is Curation? - @http://vimeo.com/38524181

Everyday Leaders - http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership.html?source=twitter#.T604WISwN3E.twitter

How to Start a Movement - []

Thomas Suarez - 12-Year-Old iPhone App Developer - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkd9TWUtFm0

William Kamkwamba - 14-Year-Old Who Read a Book and Made a Windmill for His Family - @http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html

Amy Purdy - Living Beyond Limits - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2QZM7azGoA

How Fiction Can Influence Real-World Events - @http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/08/ted-ed-how-fiction-can-influence-real-world-events/

Adora Svitak - What Adults Can Learn from Kids - @http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html

Derek Sivers - Obvious to you. Amazing to Others - []

IDEO Shopping Cart Design - []

Here's to the Crazy Ones....Think Different - []

How much do you want it? (Blind skateboarder) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ncq27mZq6b4#

What's Your Sentence? (From Drive, by Daniel Pink) - @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyRu7k70Jhc

Five Minutes (a Day) to Change the World - @http://vimeo.com/24511734


 * EXAMPLES of PRESENTATIONS: **

Kathleen Furtado - History of Bow Ties []

Shayla - Sewing a Bunny []

Burke Baehr - What's Wrong With Our Food System? - @http://www.ted.com/talks/birke_baehr_what_s_wrong_with_our_food_system.html

Natalie Warne - Anonymous Extraordinares - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FszSc7Fb8ss#!

Tara Suri & Niha Jain - Learning to Fail - @http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X0ZtPqG7t-A

Arianna Huffington - How to Succeed? Get More Sleep - @http://www.ted.com/talks/arianna_huffington_how_to_succeed_get_more_sleep.html

Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap [] ||
 * PRESENTATION TOOLS: **

Presentation Habits to UN-Learn - @http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/10-presentation-habits-unlearn-p1/

**Popular Tools**... Animoto Slide Rocket iMovie Prezi Projeqt Powerpoint Ted Talk Style Speech Poster Demonstration

FEEDBACK helps your presentation / project even better @http://vimeo.com/38247060

MANY Web 2.0 Presentation Tools http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools

More Presentation Tools []

Creating Good Presentations []

How to Give a LOUSY Presentation @http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2009/sb20090825_379576.htm

Prezi Tips []

Free Photos []

Locating Photos easily - check for copyright and price @http://compfight.com/

Creative Commons []

Creative Commons Sources []

Flickr Search under Creative Commons []

Online Stopwatch []

Interactive Images []

Search and Find Sounds []

Royalty-Free Music Options @http://www.jeadigitalmedia.org/2012/07/06/royalty-free-music-for-video-production/

More Royalty-Free Music @http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

Create Videos Without Installing Software @http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/07/10-ways-to-create-videos-without.html