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Best of Bonk Creativity Web Resources

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIVlM435Zg
Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread, TED Talks, May 17, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs
Larry Lessig: Laws that choke creativity, TED Talks, Nov 15, 2007

http://creativityworkshop.com/
The Creativity Workshop is dedicated to teaching individuals and groups about their creative processes.

http://xoxofest.com/
XOXO is an arts and technology festival celebrating disruptive creativity. We're bringing independent artists who use the Internet to make a living doing what they love together with the technologists building the tools that make it possible.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/videogallery
Dead Poets Society Videos, 1989

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyM6rx69iqg
TEDxStanford - Tina Seelig - A crash course in creativity, August 1, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2012/06/29/the-next-list-highlight-video.cnn
The Next List: Innovators to know, CNN, June 29, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-prison-bastoy-nicest/index.html
Welcome to the world's nicest prison, John D. Sutter, CNN, May 24, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdDnPYr6R0o&feature=relmfu
TEDxOrlando - Wendy Suzuki - Exercise and the Brain, TEDx Orlando, Dec 1, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/user/ICAFfestival?feature=mhee
International Children Art Foundation, WCF 2011, Dec, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16p9YRF0l-g
David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence, TED talks, May 16, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA
Elizabeth Gilbert ("Eat, Pray, Love" Author): A new way to think about creativity, Feb 9, 2009, TED

https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/3761
Interview with Steve Jobs on Collaboration & Values, Vialogues, Mar 7, 2012

http://vimeo.com/24302498 (or on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1E4aeCTg7s)
29 Ways to Stay Creative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShmtsLhkQg
John Cleese on Creativity, March 23, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug
John Cleese WCF, March 18, 2009

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/
John Cleese on the 5 Factors to Make Your Life More Creative, April 12, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GigYWy2UmOY
Keith Barry: Brain magic, TED talk, Jul 21, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0pwe4vaQo
Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?, TED talk, Apr 23, 2008

http://www.icaf.org/
International Child Art Foundation

http://www.worldchildrensfestival.org/index.php
4th World Children's Festival

http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2010/12/simon-waldman-on-creative-disr.html
Simon Waldman on Creative Disruption, Andrew Keen, December 2, 2010

http://laughingsquid.com/xoxo-a-festival-celebrating-disruptive-creativity-in-portland-or/
Disruptive Creativity, Scott Beale on May 22, 2012

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival
XOXO Festival (Portland), A technology project in Portland, OR, by Andy Baio

http://web.archive.org/web/20071103122113/http://www.cpsb.com/resources/links.html (Last updated 2007)
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.

http://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/programs/expos-and-events/
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/
"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/
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://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
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.education.gov.sk.ca/Understanding-CEL
A chapter from the book, "Understanding the Common Essential Learnings: A Handbook for Teachers

Listservs/Discussions

http://www.creativitypool.com/forums.php


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