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The State University of New York

Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

189 classificações

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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The Creative Product

In this module, we will be featuring the skill “Combine and Synthesize”. This skill is about making new connections with what we already know, and combining relatively unrelated ideas and concepts. For example, perhaps you're having trouble keeping up with your household chores. You understand their importance, but you can never seem to find the time to get them done. You take a few minutes to generate ideas, but they're the same old ones you've tried before. So, in order to come up with more novel ideas, you decide to combine your current challenge with your strengths. Perhaps you're an engineer, or you love to paint, or you're a motivational speaker. You combine the skills and tools that you already know with the problem at hand, and you come up with brand new ideas that play to your strengths! As you go through this module's lessons, we would like you to consider the following things: * What unrelated concepts might you combine to produce more novel solutions? * How does making connections spark your imagination? * 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! *Skill taken from Torrance, E.P., & Safter, H.T. (1999). Making the creative leap beyond... Hadley, MA: Creative Education Foundation Press.

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

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My name's Cheyenne and I'm a freshman here at Buffalo State College.

And, a, about a year ago,

a couple summers ago, I went to a boarding school called Pu, in Putney, Vermont.

And that school was just all about creativity and

it was one of the best schools I've ever, like,

attended because all of the students were di, so diverse, different.

There were students who loved to dance, loved to write, ceramics,

a bunch of different things.

And there were, there was a day when I wanted a sketch book and

I didn't know how to, like, where to get a sketch book.

So, I went into the bookstore, but it was way to expensive, so ding, ding, ding.

LIke, my creative, like,

mindset just taked over and I took a bunch of papers and put this together.

So, it's really thick right now because like everyday,

because it's a creative journal.

Like, I enter almost every day or almost every week.

So, I just write a bunch of stuff on it, put images on it, anything that happens

throughout the day, like movie tickets, if I've traveled somewhere.

And it's just a way and an outlet for me to reflect on my life and the things

that I do every single day that's creative because every single day is creative.

Every step that I take is a creative step.

It's, and me personally I don't really like structure, and

like constant limitation.

It's like rigid, this, this how you do it.

I just like to go with the flow and just be creative in everything that I do,

so this journal really means something to me.

And it's starting to become full so I might just have to make another one and

like stick stuff on top of each other.

But anyone who looks at this journal can just say this is Cheyenne.

Like just talk this, my whole life is just like a part of this journal.

So in my creative studies class right now, 205 with Dr.

Joe Yudis, we were tasked with creating an invention.

And had to be like fresh from our mind.

Something that we did, 20 things that sort of like annoy us, and

people could not be on, on it because you can’t change people.

And you just don’t say that, oh I want to create this or change this person,

that's just not logical or realistic.

So we had to create these things and I was always, always frustrated with

having to look for a highlighter, a pen, or pencil, and not being able to fine one.

Or like from running late to class and it's like leave my room and

I forgot like one of my utensils.

So I created the writer's tool where it's like a pen, a pencil, and

a highlighter, three of the most important things that a college student needs, or

any student needs.

And someone who is a writer, so you'll just write with the pen, rotate pencil,

and then highlighter, but I had to improvise, and you know

the process for main piece, process is one of them, where it's like scamper,

had to eliminate, and just let the idea sit, which is like incubation and

stuff like that, so I just had to use tape for a while.

Because I didn't have like, you know, a sort of, a big space, or

container to put all of them in.

And that's where like, the creativity aspect comes in,

because no matter what you do, if it's something from you it's creative.

Like, it comes from you, and your heart and your mind, and

the way that you put it together, that's the creative aspect of it.

And it's just a prototype, so this is my writer's tool.

Well, I write poetry almost every day, or I can,

I write poetry in my head, just on the train.

And which is like a funny thing because if I don't have my book, I would like have

a whole entire poem written down in my head and then I will forget it.

So whenever I am performing, like doing spoken word,

I feel like extremely alive because I feel as though people are listening to me and

I have learned how to project my voice instead of yelling.

And when I project my voice, I'm, I feel like I'm reaching to a different crowd,

and it's just an, an experience that I feel like everyone should be able to have,

where it's like, especially if you love public speaking.

If public speaking's not for you, then you wouldn't feel alive in the act.

Like, you might feel all right, alive in just the writing process, but

I feel alive in both the writing process, but then that all comes together.

When I'm like, shouting out to the world and just putting my voice and

expressions to my poems.

Some of my creative attributes are characteristics.

Most people would not think that they're creative, but I would say patience

is extremely creative because to be creative you have to have patience.

And that's one of the characteristics that have been like developing or

skills that I've been developing like for a number of years and so, being patient

with your creativity and being patient with yourself allows you time to come

up with something that's really, really beautiful and in the end you love it.

Another characteristic or attribute is, I'm extremely open-minded and

I always try to have a neutral standpoint where I don't completely judge or

say no or yes to something.

I like to look at it from different standpoint and, like,

different point of views.

So, just me having that sort of like skill or

characteristic of just being open minded and just like spontaneous and

loving just like life itself, allows me to be very creative and

appreciate others people's creative work or creative mindset.

So those are some of the skills or characteristics that I think that I have.

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