Creativity and Innovation

 I chose to do my video on a talent of mine: playing MarioKart.  Because there was so much I could do with this project, I decided to do something fun with it.  I had a lot of fun making this, and with some help from my friends I tried to make it creative.  This project was great and I enjoyed making it.  Here is my video.



As I have said before, I do not consider myself to be very creative.  I have a hard time coming up with things on my own, therefore I enjoy looking at other people's creativeness.  One thing that I love to look at on Pinterest is wedding ideas.  I found wedding photography by Laura Ashbrook and the pictures are absolutely beautiful.  The pictures are so original; I had never seen pictures taken like this before.  I feel like it is very easy for photography to all look the same, but these pictures capture creativity.

Learning and Leading

The four dimensions that J.P. Guilford uses to describe creativity are fluency, flexibility, originality, and  elaboration.  I struggle with originality the most.  I love to paint, but whenever I do I have to get my idea from someone or something else.  I usually get my idea from Pinterest.  I am also not a very good ctitical thinker, so coming up with things on my own that are unique is very difficult for me to do.  I feel like Wallwisher is a good tool that would help with elaboration and originality. Wallwisher would be a good way for people to display their ideas for others to see, and then others would be able to comment on these ideas and add things to it.  That would be originality and elaboration.  I think that Wordle would be a good tool to be used for creativity in a speech therapist's office.  Many students learn better through technology, and kids could look at the word cloud and read what they say.  Creativity is something that some people have more than others, but I think technology can help with creativity if the right tools are used.

Creative from Home

I actually did take a nap on Monday, and when I woke up I decided to paint this.  Painting relieves stress for me, and I find a lot of enjoyment in it.  I got the idea for the painting off of Pinterest, which I did my commercial on, and I just changed the colors to match my room.  There are many ways to be creative, but thinking critically is not something that I do very well.  For that reason, I often times get ideas from other people and morph it into my own.  I wish I was more creative than I am, but I am thankful that I can create things like this painting. 

Horizon Report

      I agree with the article whenever they make the statement, "People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to."  Just yesterday, my roommate was trying to study at our house.  A lot of us were in the living room where she was studying, and she got frustrated because we were all talking.  She expected to be able to study in there, even with loudness and distractions going on.  Her mindset was just like Horizon Report's statement.  Time management is a hard thing to master.  I also agree that many schools are shifting to more online learning and hybrid learning.  All three of the classes I took this summer were online.  In order for teachers to relate best to their students, online and technological things will be best.  Smart phones and tablets are seen in higher education institutions.  I feel like technology is a necessity in today's world, but people have to learn how to manage their time with it.