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Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

184 calificaciones

The State University of New York

Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

184 calificaciones

Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative. Upon completion of this course participants will: Recognize the inherent creativity in yourself and others. Identify characteristics of a creative person that relate to yourself. Develop creative problem solving skills using the basic elements of the creative process. Examine qualities of a creative environment in real world settings. Evaluate an idea using the creative product criteria.

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Putting Ideas into Context

In this module, we will be featuring the skill "Put Ideas into Context". This skill is about putting smaller parts or experiences into a larger framework, or putting things together in meaningful ways. This is the perfect skill with which to bring our MOOC to a close. During this module, and as you continue on with your Everyday Creativity experiences, we would like you to think about everything that you have learned throughout this course. Try to apply the lessons to your everyday life. Remember, the learning doesn't end with this course! Creativity is a skill that can be constantly developed -- all you have to do is put what you've learned into context! As you go through this module's lessons, we would like you to consider the following things: * How might you apply what you have learned in this course to your everyday life?* When deliberately employing this skill, do you feel more creative? We encourage you to keep this description handy, as we will be asking you to apply this skill throughout the module.Ready? Let's get started!

Conoce a los instructores

Dr. Cyndi Burnett
Associate Professor
Creative Studies
Dr. John F Cabra
Associate Professor
Creative Studies

[MUSIC]

Most people reach a lot of tough challenges in their lives.

I think for me, I always seem to be in the wrong at the wrong time,

or the right place at the wrong time, depending on your point of view.

For example, I couldn't teach in my chosen field because I was a female.

Nothing I could do about that, so

I had to redefine myself as some other kind of worker and I got other jobs.

I couldn't do what I wanted to do, I got different jobs.

Then I wasn't the right person for a company because I didn't have an MBA.

Okay, I redefined myself as a training manager, I got the job.

Sometimes I have work that, I think of myself as a creative studies teacher,

but sometimes I don't have enough classes, I'm a adjunct.

So I've redefined myself as a teacher and I teach in educational technology,

in business diversity leadership, wherever they will take me.

And I have peak experiences in those as well.

So to me, my persistence and

my ability to redefine myself and rework everything I'm doing,

to be whatever is needed, brings me peak experiences.

I think the beliefs, attitudes and challenges are really based in

my underlying belief

that whatever happens, I look at what can I do with what I have left?

How do I make something out of this?

This isn't what I wanted, how can I deal with it?

How can I make it something exciting?

And so I've just changed it.

Redefinition and connection are the kinds of things that I think are really critical

to creative thinking.

Redefinition, in that if you don't like the way it looks,

see what else you can do with it.

And connection, and having people find out that their skills match someone else

over here, and we can put those together and make something really great,

even if I'm not part of it.

Normally when I teach this course called CRS 304, it's a facilitation course.

And normally my students, there are usually about eight of them,

and we take one class during the semester for

each student to do a facilitation with an outside client.

Well, last spring I had 13 students.

So that meant 13 days of classes just doing the process.

And I thought, this is going to be horrible.

So I redefined and I said okay, what if we don't do it in class, like we normally do?

What if we went out and did it in the community with the clients and

did it all in one day?

And the way it turned out, we did a one day session,

and we had clients left over, and we had a location left over.

And they all wanted more.

So we did two days.

And it turned into this big spectacular thing.

And my students won best service learning project.

[MUSIC]

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