Thursday, December 9, 2010

Week 7 lesson


Lesson 7 Random Word / Image Association







Random word is an idea generation method which allows students to systematically generate new ideas though fixed formula.The whole premise of Random Association is to use a Random Word to provoke a reaction from the brain.

"Chances come to everyone but not everyone see it because they not have the knowledge."
"Chances only come to the people who have knowledge."
"Without knowledge we wont find the chances"




We always have our motivation, just like a donkey have a carrot to make it move
     The Carrot of us may be is money or anythings.
...but how we get away from the carrot?

When to use it

..Use it to stimulate open and divergent thinking and seek creative new ideas.
..Use it to re-ignite creative thinking when you are running out of ideas.
..Use it to get people out of a rut when their thinking is still rather conventional.

(Source: http://creatingminds.org/tools/random_words.html)

How to use it

1. Find a random word

Find a random word that will be used as a stimulus for new ideas. You can do this in a number of ways, including:
  • Look around you. What can you see? Can you see any words? What about things? What else is happening?
  • Open a book at a random page. Run your finger around the page and stop at a random point. Look for a suitable word near your finger.
  • Ask the people you are with to give you a random word.
  • Select a word from a prepared list of evocative words (fire, child, brick, sausage, etc.)
Good random words are (a) evocative and (b) nothing to do with the problem being considered. Ambiguity also helps. Nouns are usually best, but verbs and adjectives can also be used effectively.

2. Find associations

Think about other things about which the word reminds you. Follow associations to see where they go. Think openly: associations can be vague and tenuous (this is creativity, not an exam!).
When working with a group of people, you can write these down on a flipchart as people call them out. It can be useful (but not necessary) to leave a space after each associate for use in stage 3.

3. Use the associations to create new ideas

Now create new ideas by linking any of the associations with your problem. Again, the linkage can be as vague as you like: what you want is ideas!
Write the ideas either next to their associations from step 2 or on a separate page.
If other people give ideas that trigger further ideas from you, then you can go off down that route to see where it goes.
As a variant, you can do stages 2 and 3 together, finding an association and an immediate idea from this.

Example

I am seeking a way to reduce discomfort for passengers on trains.
With a group of passengers, we look out of the window and see a school.
Associations from school are learning, bullying, exams, playtime.
Ideas include teaching the rail company how uncomfortable the seats are, taking a firm stance in this, giving marks for different trains and seats and having games on trains so passengers do not notice the uncomfortable seats.

How it works

Random Words works in particular by making you go elsewhere for ideas, and hence pushes you out of your current thinking rut. It uses the principle of forced association to make you think in new ways and create very different ideas.

(Source: http://creatingminds.org/tools/random_words.htm)

Week 6 exercise


In class exercises :
Step 1: Choose 3 pairs of number from (00 until 99)     e.g: 16, 34, 94

Step 2 :  See what is the word which the number shown    










Example:   16 = Flower & Spider   34 = Ice & Mountain    94 = Leaf & Mountain
I have chosen :
99 Leave Rain
18 Flower Wood
06 Fly Spider

Exercise 1:
Create an sentences using the two random words.
1.When he leave his house, the sky starting to rain.


2. The flower is growing on the wood.


3. Something Fly over me, I surprised because it is a spider.




Create A new Word using the two random words









Example :
FlowerSpider


1. Leaverain


2. Flowerwood


3. Flyspider




Exercise : Analogy




Love just like a chili,
It is look attractive and make you wanted to try it.
Love just like a chili,
When u try it, you will feel hot and spicy.
Love just like a chili,
Once u had hurt, you will not try it again.


Man just like a Mortar ans Pestle.
Have a very hard and strong outlook.
When they met problem,
They will try to solve it rather than escape.


Life is just like a candle.
It will be extinguish at any time.
Life is just like a candle.
It is very weak and vulnerable.
Love just like a coffee.
The first time you taste it's smell was very fragrance.
But when you drink it,
You will feel bitter of it in the halfway.
After you taste it very well,
You will fund the sweet of it.


How Merge Goes Wrong?

This is an exercise which we going to merge two animal together and form a new thing. 
But this new animal must not be live long because of some reason.
Example like : 
This is a merging of Lion and Kangaroo.
Because of the body of kangaroo make it harder to hunt an animal easily.
And lack of Food, It will die soon.

And This is Mine merging. 


This is a merging of Rabbit and Ziraffe.
Because of the rabbit head is too short, It can'wilt get its food.
It will be die instantly i think. XD

Monday, November 29, 2010

Week 6 lesson

Juxtaposition


Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually ‘turning’ something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.

Metaphor-  Is a figure of speech in which 2 different things  are linked by some similarity.
  Comparison that are obvious are not consider metaphors. Therefore, metaphors occur, when 2
  different ideas are being connected in imaginative ways and agreed to be dissimilar at first.
                     - not using as / like
  Example: Life is a box of chocolate,you will never know what you will get!
                   (The Movie: “Forest Gum”)

Similes -   Using as / like
  Example: Life is like cooking.It all depends on what you add and how you mix it. Sometimes you follow                   the recipe and at other times, you’re creative.
                  Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
                  ( example taken from: Roger von Oech’s A Whack on the Side of the Head )


Week 5 exercise


Mortar & Pestle





Biography of Bill Gates

William Henry "BillGates III

BornOctober 28, 1955 (age 55)
Seattle, Washington, USA
ResidenceMedina, WA
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University (dropped out in 1975)
OccupationChairman of Microsoft (non-executive)
Chairman of board of Corbis
Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Director of Berkshire Hathaway
CEO of Cascade Investment
Net worthUS$54 billion (2010)
SpouseMelinda Gates (1994–present)
Children3
ParentsWilliam H. Gates, Sr.
Mary Maxwell Gates



William Henry "BillGates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnatephilanthropistauthor and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

Investments

  • Cascade Investments LLC, a private investment and holding company, incorporated in United States, is controlled by Bill Gates, and is headquartered in the city ofKirkland, WA.
  • bgC3, a new think-tank company founded by Bill Gates.
  • Corbis, a digital image licensing and rights services company.
  • TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company.

BILL GATES' SPEECH TO MT. WHITNEY HIGH SCHOOL in Visalia, California.

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nails on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.


Rule 1 : Life is not fair -- get used to it !

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplishsomething BEFORE you feel good about yourself. 

Rule 3 : You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school.You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from    
               paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you                  
                 are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. 

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners  and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they  
         have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.