Your Daily Dose of Inspiration

Here’s a simple little activity that can have a large effect on your ability to come up with ideas and be creative.

You probably have a routine for starting your day.  Add the webpage below and a few minutes to that routine and notice the difference it makes.

Brainstorming with Septines

Septines can be a powerful tool to aid in effective brainstorming.  It is beneficial to understand how and why they work however.

Moodle Activity – Brainstorming

Students attend school to learn.  But what is it that they are actually there to learn?  Is it the class material?  Or is it something else.  I believe that the main aim of school is not to learn the material but to learn how to learn and to learn how to organise (to organise yourself,  to organise yourself,  to organise your life,  to organise you life).  You go to school to learn how to think. This is the fundamental skill that is going to determine how successful you are in your life.

First Brainstorming Session

Last Thursday we held the first Sydney Teachers Brainstorming Group.  The topic was how we could maximise educational potential and minimise distractions in the use of laptops in the classroom.  We utilised the Six Thinking Hats method.  It was quite a success and we all learnt quite a bit.  The following is my thoughts and opinions on the night.

Stumbling around the Interweb pays off.

I like to spend a lot of time stumbling around the internet.  It is not uncommon for people to associate this activity with slacking off or time wasting.  I however see it as a great source of inspiration and new ideas. It is an important ingredient in leaving average behind and setting great in your sights.  I think you need a certain knack or approach however to be successful at it.

Breakout rooms foster creativity

Breakout rooms are designed to let ideas flow.  In a previous post I talked about whiteboards and how they are a simple tool with the potential to boost your productivity and collaboration efforts.  In this post we are going to take it one step further and talk about break out rooms.