Table of Contents for
Week #01
1. Review: Course Syllabus
2. READ
2.1. Creativity Definition
2.2. Creativity Handbook by Linda Lowell - downloads as pdf
2.3. Am I Creative?
2.4. from "Conceptual Blockbusters" - Ch 1 Intro
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT
3.1. Motivation and Concentration and Brain Dominance Theory
3.2. Learning Styles
3.3. Self Assessment - "before the course"
4. POST
4.1. POST: Tell Us About You
5. Additional Resources For Your Use (if needed)
5.1. Photoshop CS2 - New Features
5.1.1. CS2 New Features PDF
Week #02
1. READ
1.1. Read: Genius vs. Creativity
1.2. Read: Leonardo & Nature's Handwriting
1.3. Read: Creativity Techniques
1.4. From textbook: Ch 2 - Perceptual Blocks
2. COMPETE ASSIGNMENTS
2.1. Ch. 1 - Short Synopsis
2.2. Ch. 2 - Short Synopsis
2.3. Complete: 'Who Am I'
2.4. Assn 01 - UPLOAD PHOTO
3. Support Files / Links
3.1. Image Size vs. Assignments
4. Optional Exercises
4.1. Puzzles
Week #03
1. "the sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities"-Frank Barron
2. READ
2.1. Creative Brainstorming
2.2. Ch 3; Emotional Blocks
2.3. Ch 4; Cultural/Environmental Blocks
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. Homework Week 3a
3.2. Homework Week 3b-That's not Logical Postcard
4. Bonus Support File / Links (fyi: info intended for intermediate level photoshop use)
4.1. Color Setting_Presets
5. Optional Exercise
5.1. Brain Tease 1
Week #04
1. "The greatest thing is to be master of the metaphor" - Aristotle
1.1. READ
1.1.1. Visual Metaphor Examples
1.1.1.1. Metaphoric Thinking
1.1.1.2. Metaphor Examples
1.1.1.3. Review: Literary Special FX's
1.2. Ch 5 in textbook; Intellectual and Expressive Blocks
2. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
2.1. Synopsis Chapter 5
2.2. Life and Death
2.2.1. Complete Visual Metaphor Exercise
2.3. View the "No Surprises" video:
2.3.1. RadioHead Video - No Surprises
2.3.2. Read the lyrics and resize windows in order to view them together a few times
2.3.3. Lyrics - No Surprises; RadioHead
2.3.4. Post: Reactions to "No Surprises" Video
Week #05
1. "For years I persuaded myself that it was hard to use my imagination. Not so. The only hard part in using it is the anxiety, the fear of being mediocre." - Brenda Ueland
2. READ
2.1. Read Divergent Thinking Attributes
2.2. Read Divergent Thinking Techniques
2.3. From Textbook - Ch 6 and Do These Exercises
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. Group Project#1- Divergent Project
4. SUPPORT FILES / LINKS
4.1. Class Learning Styles Results
4.2. Optional Exercises
Week #06
1. "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further devlopment." - Julius Frontinus; highly respected engineer in Rome, 1st century AD
2. Let your creativity soar...
2.1. Getting The Point Yet? ...the Sky's the Limit - image by L. Lowell
3. • WORK ON DIVERGENT THINKING PROJECT
4. OPTIONAL BRAIN TEASER
4.1. Brain Teaser 7
Week #07
1. "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." - Aldous Huxley
2. Getting The Point Yet? ...the Sky's the Limit - image by L. Lowell
3. READ
3.1. From textbook: Ch 7; Kinds of Blockbusting
4. CONTINUE DIVERGENT THINKING PROJECT - DUE NEXT WEEK
5. OPTIONAL BRAIN TEASER
5.1. Brain Teaser 6
Week #08
1. "It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all." - Edward de Bono
2. READ
2.1. Read Remote Associations
2.2. Read Ordinary Thinking
2.3. Expand your window to read "Concept Development"
2.3.1. Read Concept Developement
2.3.2. View Concept Slideshow
2.4. From textbook: Ch 8; Groups
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. You will be viewing and grading the Divergent Thinking Assignment SOON - details will be sent by email after the web gallery for all the projects has been created.
3.2. Project Grading Sheet
Week #09
1. "When I was young I painted like Rafael, it has taken me a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child." - Picasso
2. Concept Ad: Remote Thinking example
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. Glass is In
Week #10
1. "People do not quit playing because they grow old. They grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
2. READ: Insite Problems Document
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. View Video: "How to Draw a Bunny by John Walter" - on reserve in the Library
3.1.1. How To Draw a Bunny Review
3.2. Textbook Readings
3.2.1. Chapter 9: Organizations
3.2.2. Ch 9 Synopsis - check calendar for due date
Week #11
1. READ
1.1. Direct Imaging ... What IF
2. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
2.1. Object Project
2.1.1. View Sample Final Slideshow: Student Warren Mantooth (title: "Homage to my Sister")
2.2. Object Project - Wk 1
3. COMPLETE DIV. THINKING GRADING
3.1. Divergent Thinking Grading
Week #12
1. About Storyboarding (some embedded links on these pages are no longer active, but the main information remains)
2. READ
2.1. Storyboards: What are they?
2.2. Storyboard Samples
3. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
3.1. Object Project - Wk 2
4. Last Project - Due December 8th
4.1. Group Project #3 - Inventors Project
Week #13
1. READ / VIEW
1.1. Short film created with a Canon 20D - Between You and Me - Patryk Rebisz
2. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
2.1. Create the Sequel - Between You and Me II
2.2. Object Project - Wk 3
Week #14
1. Contemplation - image by Mandy Hayes
2. COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
2.1. Final Paper Instructions
2.2. Week 4 Obj Project - Final Assessments
Week #15
1. READ AND COMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
1.1. Story Telling
1.2. Story Telling Assignment