On reading the latest blog entry of my friend and colleague , Jenny, I was inspired to visit my own blog after a rather long hiatus. Jenny says the following in response to creative visuals:

Just because they see something it doesn't necessarily mean they are learning.  Learning is by doing.  Surely we as teachers, should be spending our time and energy getting the pupils to be active and  produce.
http://www.jencanjot.blogspot.co.il/

It seem to me that the enormous variety of tech tools today really forces us to find that balance between employing them for our students' enjoyment and ensuring that they are in fact "doing" most of the time. The element of games in lessons also needs to be critically examined. In most cases, when team games are being played, only some of the students are engaged. When inviting one or two students to the front of the classroom to play a game, they are actually the only ones "doing" anything at that moment. Don't get me wrong; games are wonderful for enhancing motivation. But a 2-3 minute break for a game does the trick. Then it's back to engaging the whole class in some language activity.

That is why I simply love Scott Thornbury's Teaching Unlpugged. 
http://www.amazon.com/Delta-Teach-Dev-Teaching-Unplugged/dp/1905085192/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369158582&sr=8-1&keywords=teaching+unplugged

Scott doesn't reject technology but suggests that , quite simply, we shouldn't throw  the baby out with the bathwater.I'll be giving a lesson on this soon in my Methodology class . I call it "Using Dogme ELT" and it is actually one of the most creative methodologies that I teach over the year. And it's creative because for 45 minutes (the usual length of a lesson) the kids  are constantly PRODUCING English.  I hope I can convince my student teachers  of its worthiness.