Daily Creates (also sometimes know as ‘Daily Digital Alchemy’ or #DDAs in the context of #NetNarr) is creative challenge posted every day. It provides a space for regular, low-stakes practice of spontaneous creativity through mini creative challenges. This activity encourages students to develop creative confidence, express ideas playfully, and engage in community-building in an inclusive, flexible way.

• You can do a Daily Create each day of instruction (hence the ‘daily’ practice), or you can select these prompts here and there as you see fit to get the creative juices following for your students.
• You share a daily create to do once a week. No matter the regularity, the choice is up to you.
• You can have the students do this in a more ‘closed’ environment (meant only for you and their classmates) or you can have them do this work in an open networked context (following the instructions to post on twitter).
• You might also encourage students to remix or riff on their peers Daily Create work, essentially playing off of what their peers have made. Playful remix of peer Daily Creates is especially powerful in growing creative connections between people, and it makes a difference in community building efforts.
• Reusing Daily Creates: You are more than welcome to make use of our Daily Creates for any kind of prompts for educational or creative activities. Many of them are borrowed or adapted from elsewhere, others have no indicated author. All Daily Creates are openly sharable under a Creative Commons CC0 license (attribution is still nice). If you wish to give attribution, please just give created to the DS106 Daily Create and provide a link to the one you are using. Or add a comment to the bottom of a Daily Create to let us know where you used it. It tickles our little egos.