Blank Screen Creativity

BlankScreenCreativityUnleashing the creativeprocess, one blank screen at atime. @topgold

I’m Bernie GoldbachLimerick School of Art and Design @topgold

I teach third level creative students how to communicate throughMedia Writing, Public Relations, Social Media and AppliedCommunications in a BSc degree programme.I need to ensure our graduates can populate digital channels with theircreative work.I need to inculcate a collaborative spirit to ensure our graduates canwork with designers, art directors, copywriters, front end developers,programmers, marketers, and analysts.Our graduates need to surmount blank screens and be creative. @topgold

-- 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. @topgold

-- Borrows from JasonThe 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 @topgold

Learnersarrive in acopy-and-paste modeStudents who actually“engaged in writingassignments... exhibitedhigher levels of critical thinkingand overall understanding oftheir topic...“Thompsett and Ahluwalia, 2010 @topgold

What promotescreativity is aquestioningclassroom.Ask unusual andchallengingquestions.Value diversity.Robert Fisher, 2006 @topgold

A transformation hasoccurred. We havemoved from "atom-based" economy, andtowards one focusedaround the creation,manipulation,communication andstorage of electronicbinary digits or "bits".Nicholas Negroponte, 2000 @topgold

Stress is part of thelandscape with KidsLiving and Learning withNew Media.Mizuko Ito, 2009 @topgold

JasonTheodor’sCreativeMethodIt’s about action, connectionand deviation. @topgold

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The Creative Method @topgold

ActionStart simple.Draft a response.Record 90 second audio. @topgold

ConnectionCommunities emerge.Sharing happens. @topgold

ConnectionUsing Audioboo to easily aggregateshareable creative work. @topgold

DeviationNew pathways lead tounexpected results. @topgold

Improving Focus @topgold

Essential Elements of Focus -- Capture -- Catalogue -- Review @topgold

CaptureThe tool must always be in your pocket or purse. @topgold

CatalogueAuto-file in a searchable stash. @topgold

CatalogueLeverage searchable community artifacts. @topgold

ReviewCross-reference your own media objects. @topgold

Creative CollaborationMeeting creative people in Google Hangouts. @topgold

Failing Collaboration “Most collaborations fail.But we don’t hear about them.” Ewan McIntosh, LIN 2012 @topgold

LearningCreativelyStudents prefer to learncreatively by exploring,questioning, experimenting,manipulating, listening, andtesting.Torrance and Safter (1990) @topgold

ActionIt’s about doing.It is the act of creating.It is about learning how to failwell.It is a journey of 10,000 steps.Jason Theodor (2010) @topgold

ActiveListeningIt’s more than just payingattention.Robertson K (2005) @topgold

FacilitatingThe weakest of us—theEmpaths, the Crazies, and theDreamers—need to break ourinertia and build upmomentum.Theodor J (2010) @topgold

ProductionWe extract significant valuewhen producing sharedreflective documents.Google Docs used in public and privatemodes. @topgold

Critique(There is) an emergingconsensus that the mostengaged and active forms oflearning with digital mediahappen in youth-drivensettings.Mizuko Ito, 2009 @topgold

ConclusionUse the creative method to unlock blank screens. @topgold

Circle MeOr follow me @topgold. @topgold

Happy Creating!Bgoldbach AT yahoo.comwww.insideview.ie @topgold

Blank Screen Creativity

by Bernard Goldbach on Oct 11, 2012

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