Week # 6 and 7 Assignments

Tuesday, July 14th: CLASS CANCELED! Please work on your presentations for Thursday!

Thursday, July 16th: CREATIVE COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS!!!

No more blog responses are due; however, if you want EXTRA CREDIT, please post a response to either of these two weeks’ readings (and I will replace your lowest grade with this grade).

Also – for the final reflective/integrative essay, due by NOON – TUESDAY, JULY 21st VIA EMAIL, please write a brief (2-3 page) reflective essay that describes what you have learned about the nature of creativity that you did not already know, how you found the concepts and ideas we’ve discussed and read about applicable to your creative community (that you presented), and how you might apply some of what we discussed or learned about creativity to your own personal and/or professional life in the future.

Week # 5 Assignments

For next Tuesday, June 30th, please read:

• Sections: “The Power of Place”  and “Building the Creative Community” from Florida, Richard (2002). The Rise of the Creative Class: and How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life.
• “Stripping for the Movement” (BB)

Thursday, July 2nd: NO CLASS!!

Blog response for week still due by Friday p.m.

Week # 4 Assignments

Hi folks, for Tuesday, please read:

• Part III – “The Experiential Life” and “The Big Morph (a Rant)” from The Rise of the Creative Class and come in with an idea of what you think you’ll pursue for the creative community project at the end of semester (only 3 1/2 weeks away!), so we can discuss!

For Thursday, June 25th: NO CLASS! (See next blog post  Week # 5 for updated reading assignments)

Be sure to post your blog response to this week’s assignments by Friday (midnight – or at least in time for early morning coffee and grading by Saturday).

Week # 3 Assignments

Tuesday, June 16th: Creativity and Change

Assigned readings:

• Chapters 6 & 7 from The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World.

Thursday, June 18th: Creativity in the Workplace

Assigned readings:

• Sections: “The No-Collar Workplace” and “Managing Creativity” from Rise of the Creative Class: and How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life.

Please post your response to the readings by Friday (midnight), June 19th. As discussed in class, you can approach your blog posts any way you’d like, but you must engage with several of the readings/concepts discussed. So feel free to reference personal experiences and/or opinions/thoughts, as long as those comments are backed up or make significant connections to the readings.

Week # 2 Readings / Assignments

Hi folks – don’t forget that we are NOT meeting in class this Tuesday, June 9th; however, you are still responsible for the readings, which we will discuss on Thursday. So for Thursday, please read the following:

• Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 from The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (on Blackboard)
  

• Sections: “The Transformation of Everyday Life,” “The Creative Ethos,” and “The Creative Class” from The Rise of the Creative Class: and How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. (Book in bookstore)

Please post your response to the readings by Friday (midnight), June 12th. As discussed in class, you can approach your blog posts any way you’d like, but you must engage with several of the readings/concepts discussed. So feel free to reference personal experiences and/or opinions/thoughts, as long as those comments are backed up or make significant connections to the readings.

Welcome!

Hi folks – welcome to your course blog! This is where I will post weekly assignments, useful links, and assundry thoughts as we go through this very short semester.

For our first day of class, please read the following, which I sent out via email, but is also posted on blackboard:

• Anderson, Harold (1960). “The Nature of Creativity,” Studies in Art Education, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring), pp. 10-17. (BB)
• Best, David (1982). “Can Creativity Be Taught?” British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Oct.), pp. 280-294 (BB)

For Thursday, June 4th read:

• Maitland, Jeffrey (1976). “Creativity” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Summer), pp. 397- 409. (BB)
• “How Concepts of Creativity Have Changed Over Time” (BB)
• “Stages of the Creative Process” (BB)

HOW TO POST BLOG RESPONSES:

For future blog responses, you may respond to any of the postings by clicking on the “comments” link when readings/journal assignments are posted. Your first one will be due by Friday, June 5th and every Friday thereafter (you need to get one posted each week – a response to any of the readings you choose).

In order to respond to and comment upon blog postings here, you MUST register with WordPress. For username, please just put your first name and last initial (or whole last name – whichever you prefer), so that I can give you credit for each post (if you list yourself as “metrogirl” for example, I will have no idea who wrote the post and therefore cannot give you credit).  At the bottom of the registration form, don’t click on the option to get your own blog (unless you just personally want to) — from there, you can comment on all postings here by simply logging in.

Also, please take a look around the blog, and familiarize yourself with the additional resources, links, and pages that I will be posting. If you come across any other useful links (that you think would be helpful to the class, in general, please be sure to post them (in the comments section), and then I’ll add them to our list of resources/links.

Email me with any questions and/or problems you have signing up!