Category: Creativity & Innovation
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Your Career – Are you making good art?
It was a rainy Sunday and I had plenty of spare time so I spent (was going to say wasted) some time watching random YouTube videos. You can learn a great deal by doing that. You can also watch a lot of really crappy stuff. I came across a great speech by Neil Gaiman. I…
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Creative Training
How do you become a creative trainer, educator, teacher? Basically hard work, belief and lots of practice. Don’t worry about mistakes and failures. That is part of the process of getting better as long as you learn from them. The video says it all. Can’t see the video – click here
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Creativity – What is it?
If you read this blog regularly you know I am fascinated by creativity and how it operates with great trainers. Here is an excellent short video on creativity, in particular how to be creative. Can’t see the video – click here
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Sunday Zephyr – Infographics
Hopefully you know what an infographics is. If not here is a good definition: Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly. (Wikipedia). The article below provides links to 10 tools that you can use to build a infographic. As a little exercise for Sunday, create one and if you…
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Making Science Interesting
Good teaching and training is about making your content interesting by delivering it in a multitude of interesting ways. Maybe, toady you are going to have a beer, possibly a Guinness (a favourite beer of mine). Could a glass of Guinness be used to teach science. The video below proves it can. Can you make…
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Free Wireless Internet
Awesome – but not to be for most of us. The decision for free wireless internet has been made in Adelaide City. What affect will that have on the population, information flow and education? I’m not sure but that is a great idea. In NSW we are going to get a bigger and better Darling…
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Creativity, controversy, collectors item
I have just finished reading a really interesting, thought provoking and challenging book, Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It was on the best sellers list, and I purchased it, and it lived up to the claims from various critics. I can recommend it to you as a excellent collection of information on how creativity works. My…
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Online Education & Training
Finding it difficult to keep up with what is going on with online education and training. Here is a short post which lists 5 startups which are changing the online learning landscape. Worth having a look at. This is where we are heading and who knows what is just around the corner. Click here to…
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Singapore tries a different training approach
Following the post I made recently regarding Germany here is an interesting article from Singapore. They have established a virtual world (looks like Secondlife) and the are using it to help creatives find appropriate training. The last part of the article is what caught my interest. they provide a 90 percent subsidy for training for…
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Sunday’s think piece – time
I am going to do this every Sunday from now on as my last few Sunday posts have been quite popular and break up the training and learning focus of the blog. I have a strong belief that great trainers need to develop a broad knowledge of other stuff outside of their own knowledge base…