Creative Leaps

/ http://meaningfulbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/sun-tvs-sunzen-and-trini-pothound.html excerpt: "...I was scolded once for putting 'those kinds of people' on TV when I sought content from the grassroots in my country. Having had a longer than a short list of eye-opening experience and conversations during my decade in local television, I awoke from the illusion that we are living in freedom. Broadcasting is simply a way of casting the net of an idea broadly with the hope of captivating audiences who will consume. So it inherently wields the seductive power not only of controlling financially, but  of managing any group of people ideologically. Whether this is done consciously or not, the outcomes are the same. We remain a self-alienated people who buy in to the momentary pleasures we are sold by the importing merchant class. This lack of willingness to see clearly and to endure discomfort for unified longer term goals, is only a trend of immaturi...

CREATIVITY & THEPRIMRAY SCHOOL TEACHER - Where reading and writing begin! https://www.facebook.com/CREATIVITYANDTHEPRIMRAYSCHOOLTEACHER See my facebook page for  postings, links, and resource content for primary school teachers and parents. Creativity can be assessed.  In my course, Creativity & The Primary School teacher we look at a wide range of definitions of creativity and use a multi-faceted assessment of four key characteristics: the ability to generate ideas, to dig deeper into ideas, to follow inner tuition (intuition), to courageously explore ideas that are apparently in direct opposition to your own.  Through 8 three hour workshops, a number of non-academic exercises and projects are explored and are self assessed, peer assessed and facilitator assessed using my LEAP scale measurement.  The primary aim of the course however is to increase awareness of ourselves as creators and to show that we are each and all creat...

JOE KHATENA, the co-developer of several creativity assessment instruments, defined creativity in terms of "...the power of the imagination to break away from perceptual set so as to restructure or structure anew ideas, thoughts, and feelings into novel and associative bond" (Khatena & Torrance, 1973, p. 28) Servol Chaguanas: My "Faith & Fiction - Finding the Hero in Me" Island Fiction slide show. Many of these young adults said they had never read a book in the lives. This was a Friday. After the weekend their teacher called to say many of them had read one IF! title and were swapping friends for another IF! title. Consider the humble slide show as a simple tool to enhance your read aloud events. Or to create a new point of view for online marketing. Maybe a school that loves your work may build a sponsored fundraising event or paid workshop for teachers around you and your book(s). You in turn may lend your AUTHORity to help the school raise ...

To Market, to Market....is self promotion beneath you? Holding on to old ideas about promotion and self promotion may be tempting, but not so helpful. The key for me  is to sincerely investigate my intentions every step of the way. If we cannot see our books as a service to others and our duty to ensure that  "some ones" out there at least have the option to receive our work, then why, oh why did we really write at all?  With this attitude, we unconsciously imply that the book / story is 'ours', about 'me' alone, and all 'mine'. There is in this, a subtler and greater ego attachment! This kind of  self denial is unnecessary. It is selfless in fact, to  simply let go and facilitate  movement of your work  in the world through you. It takes time, energy, sacrifice and love to do so. Let me give you a little story (smiles): When I was pregnant (9 years ago)  Father Thomas Keating, a Catholic monk (an author of many...

 WHAT CAN YOUR BOOK TEACH? Blog on at Meaningful Books for more. http://meaningfulbooks.blogspot.com/2012/05/writing-wrongsteaching-activism.html  Excerpt: More than a cautionary tale, my intention has always been that IBIS STEW? Oh, No! would enliven an awareness of how each of us can creatively respond to the problems we encounter in the world. The book's epilogue attests to that goal. It is presented as Captain Bad's  log or scrapbook,  after he has been converted from pirate to watchman and guardian of the ibis. In these pages, readers will find a letter from Molly Gaskin and Karilyn Sheppard, (Pointe-a-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust, Trinidad) and real live champions of the scarlet ibis; and finally, tips on how to start a SAVE THE IBIS CLUB! Consider this: Ways to keep the intellectual property of your published work alive... The internet is all about quantity. The opportunity to get a hit increases every time you ...