• Making sure workers have a 'good' day gives companies a competitive advantage
    Thursday, May 19, 2022 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have identified five types of daily workplace experiences that influence employees' creative performance.
  • The ultimate guide to video editing for newbies
    Monday, May 2, 2022 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Ever watched a YouTube or TikTok video and thought, “I could create something like that”? Well, that’s easier said than done when you haven’t created a video before. While our unlimited access to content makes video creation appear...
  • Study shows creativity assessments progressing slowly, including racialized, gendered approaches
    Wednesday, April 27, 2022 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have published a study in which they reviewed 11 years of research on creativity assessments and found the field is focusing on three main types of assessment between education and psychology. They note little innovation in...
  • 7 things to look for in your first video editing software
    Friday, April 8, 2022 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Whether you fancy yourself as the next Scorsese or want to spruce up your travel vlog, a handy video editor is vital in any digital creator’s toolkit. When you’ve finally captured your footage, and it’s almost ready for the world to see,...
  • Layover or nonstop? Unique pattern of connectivity lets highly creative people's brains take road less traveled to their destination
    Monday, March 28, 2022 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    A new study shows highly creative people's brains appear to work differently than others, with an atypical approach that makes distant connections more quickly by bypassing the 'hubs' seen in non-creative brains.
  • Anyone can be trained to be creative
    Monday, March 14, 2022 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have developed a new method for training people to be creative, one that shows promise of succeeding far better than current ways of sparking innovation.
  • Employers should nurture friendship and support amongst co-workers to unlock creativity, shows new research
    Friday, February 18, 2022 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    The new study from the University of Bath's School of Management reveals care from a co-worker inspires people to be supportive to their partner at home, showing that co-workers have a significant role to play in enabling couples to cope...
  • Do you need to be alone to be creative? Here’s what the experts say
    Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Before the pandemic started, the debate between open office proponents and haters was as hot as ever, with a new day and a new ‘study’ showing favorable results for rubbing elbows with colleagues. And the next day, one professing the...
  • Can art mobilize people to fight climate change? This artist thinks so
    Monday, October 25, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Neuroscientists at Columbia University observed a curious thing. When they asked a group of test subjects to concentrate on a painting of an angel wielding a sword, they found it triggered responses in the subjects’ wrists. Others have...
  • The creator economy needs a Universal Basic Income — here’s why
    Thursday, October 7, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
    The internet — and now Web3 — has created an environment where anyone can share their creations with people worldwide. Digital technology has also enabled professionals to work remotely without being tied down by an office job. The...
  • Yo! Want to build your YouTube brand? Follow these 9 steps
    Wednesday, September 22, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Join Fangage’s CEO Sam Feldt onstage at TNW2021 for a session on ‘Empowering Creators.’ Growing a YouTube channel with creative content is truly exciting, especially for creative types. Creative inspirations come often and they can be...
  • What the brain shows: The benefits of virtual reality in creative arts therapies
    Wednesday, September 8, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers examined the differences in prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation between two distinct drawing tasks in virtual reality. Results of the study indicated significant differences between a rote tracing task and a creative...
  • Beginning Again with Hope
    Friday, September 3, 2021 from creativiteach
    What a beginning to a school year! All around me, my teacher friends and parent friends are struggling over what young people need most. How can we protect them from illness while maximizing their learning? How do we balance the social...
  • NFTs aren’t just a fluke — they will change the way we experience and own digital media
    Friday, August 27, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Just like DeFi’s money legos are about to revolutionize finance, media legos will deeply alter the social layers of the web. They will change how creators issue, distribute, and monetize their work while defining new rules for content...
  • Use your team’s emotions to boost creativity
    Tuesday, August 17, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    If you're putting together a team for a project, you might be inclined to pick people with cheerful, optimistic dispositions and flexible thinking. But a new management study indicates your team might also benefit from people who are...
  • Butterflies, Mathematicians, and Creativity
    Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from creativiteach
    This is Katherine Johnson. I know it looks like a monarch butterfly egg, and it is, but its name is Katherine Johnson. It is not every butterfly egg that is fortunate enough to be named after an early NASA mathematician, but this one is....
  • Researchers develop real-time lyric generation technology to inspire song writing
    Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Music artists can find inspiration and new creative directions for their song writing with technology.
  • Real Work, Real World, and Creativity
    Thursday, July 29, 2021 from creativiteach
    I have a friend who, together with her quadriplegic husband, raised four wonderful children. Those “children” are now adults with not-so-young children of their own, and I continue to be impressed with their intelligence, integrity, and...
  • Measuring creativity, one word at a time
    Tuesday, July 27, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to researchers, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them...
  • Curiosity for Understanding
    Tuesday, July 13, 2021 from creativiteach
    I’m having trouble watching the news these days. Truth is, that’s been true for years now. I have to moderate my news consumption to keep from being swamped by the flow of negativity and anger. I know people have always disagreed, but it...
  • Creative Archeology: Motel of the Mysteries
    Tuesday, July 6, 2021 from creativiteach
    When I was a child, I loved the story of archeologist Howard Carter uncovering King Tut’s tomb. I could easily envision his face as he first peered within and glimpsed the treasures inside, exclaiming that he saw “Things, wonderful...
  • Feeling Flattened? Try Summer Creativity
    Tuesday, June 29, 2021 from creativiteach
    It is summer, apparently with a vengeance. Here in Michigan, we are in the midst of a week of humidity, storms, and flooded highways, while my brother in usually-balmy Oregon has temperatures over 100 degrees. He took this photo of one...
  • Creating a Sonnet
    Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from creativiteach
    I finished writing a sonnet today. In French. I make no claim that it was a good sonnet. In fact, when explaining it, I labeled it ”A sonnet that wasn’t a real sonnet,” since the patterns of rhymes and syllables were correct but I...
  • Use rewards effectively to boost creativity
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    To boost employees' creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study.
  • Frank Pahl: Creating with Sound
    Monday, June 14, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    What makes sound? What makes music? If you’d like to explore these questions, and perhaps set your students on a summer quest, consider Frank Pahl. Frank Pahl is a Michigan musician and composer who works with automatic music, or music...
  • In the Heights: Creatively
    Monday, June 7, 2021 from creativiteach
    I was a young adolescent when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. Their music sounded from every treasured 45 rpm record (yes, actual records) and boys in school were suddenly send home from school for combing their inch-long hair...
  • With Gratitude and Creativity
    Monday, May 31, 2021 from creativiteach
    I was going to post a normal blog today—something about creative activities suited to the end-of-school-year days—but when the time came, it didn’t feel right. Today, in the U.S., it is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the men...
  • Roasted, Toasted, and Burned: Studying Wendy’s Twitter Account
    Monday, May 10, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    I know that people research almost anything. Years ago, when I was on a university committee to evaluate applications for sabbaticals and internal research grants, I was surprised and delighted at the variety of things our faculty were...
  • And the People Stayed Home–and were creative
    Monday, May 3, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    Has the pandemic time allowed you the chance to be creative? For some folks, I know, the pressures of children at home, school at home, work at home, every minute at home have left no time for anything but survival. For others of us, at...
  • Oh no… Elon Musk is gonna host Saturday Night Live
    Monday, April 26, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
    Is there anything Elon Musk can’t do? The modern-day Renaissance man has already set his sights on colonizing Mars, saving the world from environmental catastrophe, developing a “revolutionary” subway system, and putting chips in all our...
  • Changing the World, One Crayon at at Time
    Monday, April 26, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    I’m back! I know there is a small-but-loyal following for this blog, and perhaps some of you noticed my being AWOL the last few months. Truth is, I’ve been so busy writing that managing a blog, too, was more than I could do. I just...
  • Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities
    Wednesday, February 3, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathize with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests.
  • For the right employees, even standard information technology can spur creativity
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    In a money-saving revelation for organizations inclined to invest in specialized information technology to support the process of idea generation, new research suggests that even non-specialized, everyday organizational IT can encourage...
  • Netflix signs David Fincher in a 4-year exclusive deal
    Thursday, November 12, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
    It’s official: Netflix has signed revered filmmaker and director David Fincher in an exclusive four-year deal. The artist, which has directed cult classics like Fight Club, Se7en, The Social Network, Zodiac, and Gone Girl, revealed the...
  • Which is more creative, the arts or the sciences?
    Tuesday, October 13, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    An expert in creativity and innovation is calling for schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research shows it is a core competency across all disciplines and critical for ensuring future job...
  • Graphic design apps are now as fundamental as Excel — here’s how non-designers get up to speed
    Monday, September 28, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
    In today’s digital landscape, it’s critical to understand why design matters beyond the realm of the creative department. After all, marketing, branding, sales, business collaborations, and partnerships all hinge on the strength of a...
  • Brandon Leake: America’s Got Creative Talent
    Monday, September 28, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    I’m not a regular watcher of America’s Got Talent, but the pandemic changes many things. So, recently, I ended up watching the last few episodes of the talent competition. There were singers, lightening-speed dancers, magicians,...
  • Asking for a Friend: How Do You Learn to Manage People?
    Tuesday, August 11, 2020 from 99U
    In the second installment of our advice roundup with the co-founders of Of a Kind: doing the job no one teaches you.
  • Asking for a Friend: What Does It Take to Build a Successful Partnership?
    Tuesday, August 4, 2020 from 99U
    The creative business duo behind Of a Kind answer reader questions—starting with a topic near and dear to them.
  • Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One
    Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 99U
    Red Antler co-founder Emily Heyward’s new book draws from her years of experience in the marketing industry and dives deep into making a brand that people love and trust.
  • Habits for Creativity: Empathy
    Monday, July 27, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    As we consider the social emotional strengths that will serve students well in building creativity—and in learning—one good place to start is with The Henry Ford Museum’s Model i, a model of design thinking for innovation. The Henry Ford...
  • Stumbling Blocks and Obstacles: How to Overcome Creative Ruts
    Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 99U
    Strategies from creatives on how to get unstuck and move forward in your work.
  • How to Think Smart About Your Downtime
    Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 99U
    With the right approach, your downtime can reap benefits for your career and optimize your work life.
  • A Roadmap for Reopening
    Monday, July 13, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    In recent weeks, social media has exploded with a debate about schools reopening. And—like pretty much everything else related to schools—everyone seems to have an opinion, regardless of whether they’ve been near a public school in...
  • Pay Attention: The Art of Noticing
    Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 99U
    Rob Walker invites us to look at the world around us with fresh eyes in his book of exercises, challenges, and observations.
  • How to Channel a Daily Vision into a 20-Year Photography Career
    Wednesday, June 24, 2020 from 99U
    Noah Kalina, the photographer behind cult-loved books, a deeply respected art photography practice, and a viral video project that has amassed over 44 million views, opens up on his early days as an artist and his unlikely new medium.
  • Highlights from the 12th Annual 99U Conference: The Creative Self
    Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
    Our speakers at the 2020 99U Conference explored the theme of The Creative Self with insight, wit, and compassion. Here's a look at the keynotes, master classes, and workshops from our first virtual 99U Conference, filmed at a production...
  • Emily Cohen: Building the Love Into Creative Business
    Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
    Exploring the ways we can show and receive love in our relationships with clients, employees, and colleagues, and build lasting, reciprocal links rooted in acts of care.
  • John S. Couch: Designing a New Day
    Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
    An exercise that shows us how to build time into our schedule for those secret aspirations, and how to create with soul to capture genuine energy in our work.
  • Aha! + Aaaah: Creative insight triggers a neural reward signal
    Thursday, April 9, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    A new neuroimaging study points to an answer of what may have driven the evolutionary development of creativity.
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