All Blog Posts Tagged 'creativity' (10)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11/19/2009 - Marci Segal, Creativityland, Inc. president, and co-founder of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 (WCIW), received the Creative Studies Alumni Foundation Achievement Award from the International Center for Studies in Creativity (ICSC). World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 began as a small idea among four Canadians in 2002 that has since grown to be celebrated in more than 40 countries in businesses, schools, com… Continue

Apple Computers has been an interesting company to watch over the last 30 years or so. While tons of computer companies have come and gone (remember Amiga’s, Atari’s, or even Wangs?), few have actually lasted as long as this venerable educational technology company. And don’t be fooled, Apple is indeed an ed tech company. Almost every product they make turns out to have a education connection. Remember when the iPod came out? Just a music player eh? Then, about six months passed and all of a sud… Continue

I've completed a publish-on-demand book that explores the relationship between complexity theory, adaptive leadership and creative team development. You can take a look at it here - I've made it small enough to be portable and at 120 pages, is a good way to till the creative soil while on the move. The nucleus came from a McMaster University lecture I gave, my blog entries and an adaptive teams concept that I presented at the Banff Centre as part of their Leadership Learning Labs.… Continue

I've turned the Creative Whack Pack into an iPhone App. It was a three month project (which I enjoyed very much). Go here for more information. The App, like the card deck, has 64 illustrated creativity strategies. But it also has many more stories, examples, anecdotes, and questions. It also has "Whack of the Day" and creative workshop functions. It has lots of "playability," and can be used by yourself or with othe… Continue

How does creativity happen? Few things are more fascinating than human creativity, in all of its varieties and forms. Whether it's seen in little children or working adults, whether it's the highest levels of genius or the most mundane levels of creativity in our everyday lives, creativity poses intriguing questions. How does creativity happen? What motivates it? What kills it? How can we keep it alive? Author(… Continue

Why Submit to the Kit? Some ideas gestate for years and some just come out of the ether like a whack to the top of the egg. This ebook and the idea to invite my peers to collaborate came to me on a hot and humid summer night as my bladder tugged me to make a move to the toilet... Some awesome ideas just lack that romantic ideal we hear about in the history books. This is one of… Continue

I have been writing, posting, blogging, websiteing now since buying my first Apple, a Mac Classic. I have 3 blogs, 1 Squidoo,. I am on many, many different social networks and business networks I work on my website at least weekly I send out my Alan's Cre8ng Challenges weekly and have bee since January 1997 ever week Occasionally I send messages out on various electronic networks Even less occasionally I send out tiny messages on Twitter. Daily I spend hours on the internet when I can gai… Continue

Here is an interview I conducted with Greg Fraley. It is cross posted at Education Innovation. It is based on Greg's book, Jack's Notebook. Greg shares his thoughts on education and creativity. 1. At one point in the story, one of the characters suggests that a test students could be given is to make a long list of possible solutions to a problem. What is the power of “the list?” Why is list making suc… Continue

Yesterday I posted "Old Creative Advice" on IdeaConnection. Doing so prompted me to make a wish. Many, many years ago, in a faraway land called CompuServe (which I was shocked to learn still exists), Franca Leeson, Tim Hurson, Hal Portner, my daughter Caitlin, and a crew of crazy creatives hobnobbed at 300 baud or slightely faster in the new frontier of pre-internet, dial-up, online comm… Continue

Tim and I just completed a week in the amazing Galapagos Islands. It occurred to me that the strange but unmistakable tendency for nearly all the animals there to NOT run away when you approach them probably has a significant evolutionary advantage: provided intruders don't club you over the head or… Continue