Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted

Found this very interesting. John Baer gave us some help in the CII a few years ago by leading small workshops on Creativity as a pedagogic tool. I always thought that creativity has a little bit of a bad rap in general society, because it implies thinking differently, change, new ideas, and sometimes, restarting from scratch. Depending on the project at hand, creativity can be a real wrench in the works for some. For others, however, it’s a great way to fix what’s broken, and to make a project do what it should. Anyway, here’s a great resource I found on del.icio.us regarding creativity methods:

Category:Creativity Techniques - Mycoted
This is a general category of Creativity and Innovation Techniques, simply listed in alphabetical order. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job. We will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it’s best used for cutting paper or putting in nails.

For the future, the aim is to also have sub-categories which will identify Techniques for;

* Problem Definition - including problem analysis, redifinition, and all aspects associated with defining the problem clearly.
* Idea Generation - The divergent process of coming up with ideas.
* Idea Selection - The convergent process of reducing all the many ideas into realistic solutions
* Idea Implementation - Turning the refined ideas in reality.
* Processes - Schemes and techniques which look at the overall process from start to finish (or at least 3 of the above 4 areas)..

Special thanks to the Open University for their kind permission to use material from their publication B822.

Bike Series: The search for [a] balance.

http://ghost.rider.edu/podcasts/bike_search_for_balance.mp3 is a podcast about my search for a pocket sized digital balance in the collective greater Princeton & Trenton retail area. I was not successful, but the search is the thing. The story is told while on my nightly neighborhood night bike ride.

FDD 2006: OSS tools for Concept Mapping

http://ghost.rider.edu/podcasts/fdd_0605_oss_conceptual_frameworks.mp3 is a podcast of my portion of the Rider University Faculty Development Day presentation on Concept Frameworks that I presented along with Reed Schwimmer and Peter Hester. After Reed and Peter gave an overview of the pedagogic aspects of concept mapping, I gave a short slideshow of screenshots of two fantastic Open Source tools: FreeMind, a straightforward mind mapping tool, and OpenOffice.org’s Draw which does a very nice job of diagramming, flow charts, mind maps, and more.

I will link to the slideshow when I upload it.

FDD 2006: 10 Social Networking Sites

http://ghost.rider.edu/podcasts/fdd_0605_social_networking_sites.mp3 is the podcast in  mp3 format of the presentation I gave on Rider University’s May 2006 Faculty Development Day on Social Networking sites like Flickr and del.icio.us and their potential for academic use. I will post a link to the S5 based presentation as soon as I upload it.

freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeCast

freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeCast
About:
Freecast is a peer-to-peer streaming system that makes it possible to stream Ogg audio or video to a large number of listeners from a DSL connection. The client can be customized graphically, doesn’t require a user configuration step, and is updated at startup when needed.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
A new UDP transport layer that provides NAT traversal support (via STUN) was implemented. An embedded Ogg Vorbis encoder can create a stream for a list of files. The FreeCast Manager Setup GUI eases deployment by changing the broadcast source in two clicks. The Windows installer was improved.

New $20 webcam from Radio Shack

And so here’s a little clip as a test for vodcasting.

Bike Ride with Free Thought Association

This is a recording where I decided to wear my iRiver and a lapel mic while on one of my nightly bike rides. It turned into a sort of free-thought monologue where I talk about [Dr.] Joe Torre at the Rider University Commencement, night riding, my neighborhood, Jack, and a whole lot more. Fun, wacky stuff.