About Creative Educator

Started in 2007, Creative Educator focuses on effective ideas and strategies to foster creativity and engage students in the curriculum. Articles are designed to provide you with an informed and diverse view of today’s educational technology field, including fresh ideas about project-based learning, classroom management, and creativity. The classroom stories illustrate how educators are already utilizing creativity tools in their classrooms and the lesson plans provide specific ideas, resources, and directions that make implementing creative work with technology even easier.

The Creative Educator team also provides professional development services to help bring project-based learning to your school or district.

Melinda Kolk, Editor

For the past 25 years, Melinda has led hundreds of workshops at schools around the world and made hundreds of presentations at education conferences, such as ASCD and ISTE, on the topics of creativity, project-based learning, and open-ended technologies. She has been a featured speaker or keynote at MACUL, VSTE, MICCA, and ISTE.

Melinda is the author of Teaching with Clay Animation and has had articles on creativity and digital projects published in Virginia's "VSTE Journal" and Australia's "The Educational Technology Guide", and the UAE’s “Didactics World” magazine. Melinda is as one of the founders of Tech4Learning, which publishes student creativity tools like Wixie.

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