Over 100 ways to turn learning into a right old performance -

  Moving the design of group learning activities  from afterthought to art form.

At the moment we expect far too much from individuals and far too little from groups.

Work is now underway on how we can allocate time to these challenges and how we can extend our repertoire of response to learning demonstrated beyond the page, the classroom and the timescale of a lesson. Catch up with John Davitt on his 2013 tour in Europe, Australia & USA and learn how to make you own Learning Event Generators tour details here

 
The idea for this list is to collect together a diverse sample of ways in which we can show our learning and understanding in addition to simply writing it down on a page. If you have an idea that you would like to add to the list leave it in the comment section below. 

For instance it should be possible to show an understanding of say "peristalsis" in all of the following formats..

Do peristalsis as........

1. a haiku
2. a cubist-style sketch or collage 
3. a letter of complaint 
4. an origami folded paper model
5. a 1930s radio broadcast
6. a love song
7. an army march chant
8. a marriage vow
9. a story with a twist at the end 
10. a Dear John letter
11. a slow-motion, instant replay
12. a play in three 10 second acts
13. an abstract expressionist painting
14. a play-by-play sports commentary
15. a finger drum solo on the desk with call outs
16. a flip book (old school animation)
17. a 20-word telegraph
18. an icon and logo design
19. a  percussion sequence 
20. a shadow puppet show
21. a puppet show maybe with paper finger puppets of your own design
22. a children's book
23. a choreographed fight scene
24. an interpretive dance
25. an obituary
26. a  radio advertisement
27. a public service announcement
28. a proverb
29. a cartoon
30. a calendar design 
31. a heated dialogue between enemies
32. a bumper sticker
33. five words written with the hand you don't write with 
34. a playdough/modelling clay scultpure
35. a series of 5 photographs
36. a sketch with non-dominant (left) hand
37. a concept map
38. an expressive dance
39. an album cover
40. an impressionistic painting
41. A sonnet
42. A nursery rhyme
43. A game of charades
44. A board game
45. A rap/hip-hop song
46. a charts or a graph
47. A rap of your own making
48. A tattoo design
49. A show & tell event
50. A word cloud in Wordle
51. A floor plan of a house with appropriate labels
52. A finger puppet show
53. A hand jive sequence
54. A tiny opera
55. As a Photosynth style file
56. As a mashup of two music styles
57. A mini tableau with annotation
58. An answerphone message (Skype?)
59. a song sung in the style of Bohemian Rhapsody
60. A telephone interview for 
61. A product sales package
62. A costume design
63. A television advert for a foodstuff
64. A labelled diagram or picture 
65. A two minute conversation in a group with optional signage
66. A scene from a silent movie
67. A Monty Python sketch
68. 4 powerpoint slides
69. as an epigram 
70. a potato print 
71. A mini-novel of 200 words
72. A brainstorm in bubbl.us
73. A matrix-style reinvention
74. A mobile to hang from a ceiling
75. An animation
76. A playscript for a 1 minute play
77. An improvisation
78. a flow diagram
79. a paper collage
80. a Furoshiki design 
81. a Shape poem
82. a folded information leaflet
83. a Paper doll display
84. a 25 second radio broadcast
85. a high priority e-mail message 
86. a 20 second recording
87. an illustrated diagram
88. a 50 word written account
89. a mime
90. an interpretive dance 
91. a whisper (maybe recorded on a mobile for playback)
92. a pencil sketch
93. a Roy Lichtenstein style poster  
94. a 20 second rap
95. a connect the dots diagram
96. a crayon drawing
97. a 30 second skit
98. a tap dance around the key issues on the floor
99. a blues song - performed
100. a pose
101.