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Creativity, ISP 5660

Class 2

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• Login info:o User Name tomclasso Password 3Nv1r0nm3nT

(think “environment”)• Not accepted during class:

o Conference messageso Weekly reports

• http://www.is.wayne.edu/drbowen/crtvyf04

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Agenda

1. Issues for online students

2. Review of assignments

3. Initial ideas about creativity

4. Writing for the creativity course

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Issues for online students

• Technicalo Keep email inbox openo Call Instructor if her/his email inbox is fullo Watch your file sizes (graphics)o Check out two-way file compatibility with

Instructoro Methods of contacting Instructor (face time,

telephone, email, conference)

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Issues for online students

• Non-technicalo Ask for help early (don’t let a problem build

up)o To get the most out of course, jump in to

messagingo Don’t let backlog build up – it’ll bite ya!o You are not out there on your owno Have opinions! Express yourself!

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Review of Assignments

• Where we are in the course

• What you should do

• How I grade messages

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Hey folks!Semester is half over and some people really haven’t gotten started yet

• Deborah Dorsey• Nira Griffin• Sherlene McDonald• Kay Russell• Mary Smith• Keesa Tippett• Carmelita Williams• Latisha Williams

The Schedule Assignment (on course web site)

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Every Week

• Reading (carry a book with you!)• Messages to conference (catch-up time is

only until Thanksgiving). Comments on your reading make good comments. Read actively!

• Weekly report (to make these up, ask about an extra assignment)

• Thinking about the essay for that book

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Every Week

• Check email

• Check conference

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Once only but past due:• First three messages (intro, creative person,

What about creativity is interesting)• File Test• Call to my home (except for a few)• Four-credits?

Choice of fourth book (Dorsey, Griffin, Miller, Russell, Smith, Tippett, Whitty)

Draft essay topic for fourth book as a conference message

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Conferencing

• How I grade messageso Five lines minimumo (17%) Relevant to course (loosely interpreted,

but comments on reading are good)o If content is a reply, then

o (17%) Message is a replyo (17%) Uses Reply / Quote to establish a context

• Questions? I will share my record.

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Conferencing

• Techniques:o Reply/Quote, then edit. Practice:

Message: For During the ClassReply/QuoteRemove everything from original except “David

Bowen wrote” and my second sentenceYour message: “My name is “ (then your name)

o PROFILES / Change personal profile

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Initial Ideas About Creativity

1. Definitions and related concepts

2. Creativity and and (children, ADD / ADHD / mental illness, popularity)

3. What’s inside

4. Conflicting characteristics

5. Corporate Creativitya. Compare to Csikszentmihalyi

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Creativity and Friends #1

• Creativity – something new that meets a need or solves a problem(in the symbolic culture)o Big C Vs little co Creative product?

• Innovation - something new that meets a need or solves a problem (in the material culture)

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Creativity and Friends #2

• Novelty – something that is new, without solving a problem or meeting a need (e.g. a fad like the hula hoop)

• Problem-solving – meeting the problems of everyday life

• Performance

• Flow – internal state

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Creativity Process1. Preparation2. Block3. Inspiration (aha)4. Finishing (assessing, revising)

Your creativity requires autonomy, can be cut off but not steered or directed

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Creativity and Children

• Often have novel and appealing ideas

• Not so good at:o Choosing a significant problemo Assessing and revising

• Few famous children go on to remain so as adults

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Creativity and mental illness

• Similar to children – novel ideas but significance and follow-through are difficult to manage

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Creativity and Popularity(alignment)

Aligned Domain

Non-aligned domain

Helps to be out on the edge if you are going to move the domain.

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What’s Inside

Me as an example

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Conflicting traits• Creativity, The Creative Personality

Chapter Threeo extroversion Vs introversion (both)o traditional and conservative Vs rebellious and

iconoclastico humble Vs proudo I believe these arise because creative projects

require contradictory traits at different times – e.g. proud enough to propose something new, humble enough to seek advice

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Corporate Creativitycompared with others

Corp. Creativity (Pg 12) Csikszentmihalyi etc.

1. Alignment Structured (pg 39

2. Self-initiated activity Autonomy

3. Unofficial activity Idea before refinement

4. Serendipity Luck in problem choice

5. Diverse stimuli Know the field, domain

6. Communication Weak links (elsewhere)

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Corporate Creativity• Many people think that business is the

opposite of creative – manipulative, controlling, resistant to change, but all of the business world that we see is the result of creativity and innovation

• Business has some advantages, eveno Good at bringing in extra people and resources,

otherwise available only to the famous (one way to get the opposed personalities without the inner conflict)

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Writing for Creativity• Content, Form, Mechanics

o CONTENT: Part of my purpose is to see that you have read and understood the texts

o FORM: Title, Intro, Body, Conclusion, consistent voice (I, you, one, etc.), changes in opinion, tense etc. are under control and not accidental (transitions)

o MECHANICS: Use spell-check and grammar-check (but ~ 1/3 passive tense is OK, needed sometimes, e.g. when you don’t know the actor

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Writing for Creativity

• CONCLUSION: No new information, else thinking is not done. (exception – to open subject up to show its larger significance)

• TITLE: Describe essay, can have fun with this• Include your own opinions, feelings, comments,

experiences, reactions• Cover sheet: your name, which question (you

don’t really want me to guess, do you?)

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Some new Architecture(architects want to design creatively, but they also

want people to be innovative and creative within their

buildings)

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