Presentation delivered to the 2012 Learning Innovation Network about "Blank Sc

1. Blank
Screen
Creativity
Unleashing the creative
process, one blank screen at a
time.
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2. I’m Bernie Goldbach
Limerick School of Art and Design
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3. I teach third level creative students how to communicate through
Media Writing, Public Relations, Social Media and Applied
Communications in a BSc degree programme.
I need to ensure our graduates can populate digital channels with their
creative work.
I need to inculcate a collaborative spirit to ensure our graduates can
work with designers, art directors, copywriters, front end developers,
programmers, marketers, and analysts.
Our graduates need to surmount blank screens and be creative.
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4. -- My research includes
continuous, informal interviews
with students.
The Process
-- Followed ethnographic
process recommended by
Spradley (1979).
-- Digital artifacts (Flickr,
Things I’ve done to investigate Instagram, Google Plus, Twitter,
blank screen creativity. Audioboo) assisted the data
collection process.
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5. -- Borrows from Jason
The Creative Theodor’s Creative Method and
System.
Experience
-- Learners bring their own
devices.
-- Teachers identify creative
oases.
Things worth sharing -- An effective process shares
eureka moments
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6. Learners
arrive in a
copy-and-
paste mode
Students who actually
“engaged in writing
assignments... exhibited
higher levels of critical thinking
and overall understanding of
their topic...“
Thompsett and Ahluwalia, 2010
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7. What promotes
creativity is a
questioning
classroom.
Ask unusual and
challenging
questions.
Value diversity.
Robert Fisher, 2006
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8. A transformation has
occurred. We have
moved from "atom-
based" economy, and
towards one focused
around the creation,
manipulation,
communication and
storage of electronic
binary digits or "bits".
Nicholas Negroponte, 2000
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9. Stress is part of the
landscape with Kids
Living and Learning with
New Media.
Mizuko Ito, 2009
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10. Jason
Theodor’s
Creative
Method
It’s about action, connection
and deviation.
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15. The Creative Method
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16. Action
Start simple.
Draft a response.
Record 90 second audio.
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17. Connection
Communities emerge.
Sharing happens.
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18. Connection
Using Audioboo to easily aggregate
shareable creative work.
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19. Deviation
New pathways lead to
unexpected results.
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20. Improving Focus
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21. Essential Elements of Focus
-- Capture
-- Catalogue
-- Review
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22. Capture
The tool must always be in your pocket or purse.
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23. Catalogue
Auto-file in a searchable stash.
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24. Catalogue
Leverage searchable community artifacts.
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25. Review
Cross-reference your own media objects.
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26. Creative Collaboration
Meeting creative people in Google Hangouts.
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27. Creative Collaboration
Meeting creative people in Google Hangouts.
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28. Failing Collaboration
“Most collaborations fail.
But we don’t hear about them.”
Ewan McIntosh, LIN 2012
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29. Learning
Creatively
Students prefer to learn
creatively by exploring,
questioning, experimenting,
manipulating, listening, and
testing.
Torrance and Safter (1990)
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30. Action
It’s about doing.
It is the act of creating.
It is about learning how to fail
well.
It is a journey of 10,000 steps.
Jason Theodor (2010)
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31. Active
Listening
It’s more than just paying
attention.
Robertson K (2005)
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32. Facilitating
The weakest of us—the
Empaths, the Crazies, and the
Dreamers—need to break our
inertia and build up
momentum.
Theodor J (2010)
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33. Production
We extract significant value
when producing shared
reflective documents.
Google Docs used in public and private
modes.
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34. Critique
(There is) an emerging
consensus that the most
engaged and active forms of
learning with digital media
happen in youth-driven
settings.
Mizuko Ito, 2009
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35. Conclusion
Use the creative method to unlock blank screens.
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36. Circle Me
Or follow me @topgold.
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37. Happy Creating!
Bgoldbach AT yahoo.com
www.insideview.ie
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