Creative Thinking

Web Resources

Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

 

 

http://www.cpsb.com/resources/links.html
Listing of sites related to creativity organized into two categories:  Educational Programs and Inventions.

  • http://www.innovationtools.com/
    The InnovationTools Web site provides busy executives with a valuable collection of tools, ideas and resources, designed to help them be more creative in their day-to-day work. This site has several parallels with the Creativity Web with sections on people, software, quotations and links to other web sites.
  • http://www.cre8ng.com/
    Broken Crayons is the web site by Robert Alan Black - speaker and author on creativity and innovation. This site is home to the weekly Creativity Challenges posted to several Creativity discussion lists. Great use of colour and the crayon motif. Make sure you read the 'Cre8v Thoughts' newsletter as well as viewing the four quadrants of the M.I.N.D. design questionnaire. You even get to break the crayons as you move the mouse over the graphics!

    http://www.whatagreatidea.com/
    Charles "Chic" Thompson's site is a truly creative web site effectively using graphics, text, animations and white space.


    www.odysseyofthemind.org
    Odyssey of the Mind - promoting creative team based problem solving in a school program for students from kindergarten through college. The program helps students learn divergent thinking and problem solving skills.

http://www.uccs.edu/~creative/
Center for Research on Creativity and Innovation
at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Funded by various business entities, aim is to conduct research on ways to improve creativity in organizations and to publish the results of the research as well as work in a consulting capacity with organizations that want to improve the creativity of individuals and teams.

http://www.edwdebono.com/debono/
Edward DeBono’s Homepage
Homepage of one of the leading authorities in the field of creative thinking.

http://www.eaci.net/
The European Association for Creativity and Innovation
A site dedicated to contributing to a better understanding, practice and acceptance of creativity and innovation management in Europe.

http://www.creaconference.com/eng/creativityexpo.htm
Creativity Expo
"The Creativity EXPO is a series of 90 minute, interactive workshops that will expose participants to the many diverse perspectives of research and practice in the field of creativity."

http://www.creax.com/resources/creax_net.html
"An inspirational list of creativity and innovation resources".

http://www.ccl.org/index.shtml
The Center for Creative Leadership
A nonprofit educational institution devoted to leadership research and training worldwide.

http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/mcgrawg/lspirit.html#abstract
The Letter Spirit project
An attempt to model central aspects of human high-level perception and creativity on a computer.

http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/research.html
Creativity Research
Research being done in the Cognitive Science Department at Indiana University

Implementation and Practical Ideas

http://www.directedcreativity.com/
Directed Creativity Homepage
Focuses on the serious use of creativity in business and contains materials for the novice and expert alike.

http://www.topten.org/content/tt.AG74.htm
Simple list taken from a “Top 10 Lists” site.

http://web.mit.edu/invent/
The Invention Dimension!
Homepage of a program administered by MIT’s School of Engineering whose goal is to raise the stature of inventors and to inspire invention and innovation among young people (grants for invention available).

http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/publish/publish.html
Creativity
Administered by The Franklin Institute, site offers location for the posting of student creative work across a broad range of categories.

http://www.gocreate.com/
GoCreate.com
Listing of business consultation services concerning development of new ideas through creative thinking, innovation, problem solving in organizations, industry, and education.

http://www.milestoneideas.com/
Robert Taraschi’s Milestone
Business creativity and innovation facilitators.

http://www.creativityatwork.com/
Creativity at Work
resource for developing personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace.

http://enchantedmind.com/html/side_navigation/about_us.html
Enchanted Mind
Humor and puzzles as resources for becoming more creative, includes creativity tests

http://www.creativelearning.com/index.htm
Center for Creative Learning, Inc.
Offers a variety of publications, training programs, information support, and consulting services on creativity, Creative Problem Solving, talent development, and learning styles.

http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/policy/cels/el4.html
A chapter from the book, "Understanding the Common Essential Learnings: A Handbook for Teachers






For more information about this course, e-mail:cjbonk@indiana.edu, E-Learning Professor Curtis J. Bonk,
Department of Instructional Systems Technology, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington.


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