Learning – Page 24 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Recommendation: Georgia Tech Welcome Speech

2013-08-23

A good course should start with a bang, a good semester ... perhaps with this speech.
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Thin Paper

2013-08-21

On scanning very thin paper, DRM, and oh, Neil Gaiman.
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If I would study again (at the university) … this is how I would learn

2013-08-10

A suggestion on how to learn when you are studying at the university. Made possible by today's technology. Yeah. :-)
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“Oh, du weißes Blatt, inspirier’ mich … oder besser nicht!” — Wissenschaftliches und fiktionales Schreiben ohne Inspiration (aber mit Inhalts-Outlines, Scrivener, u.v.m.)

2013-08-07

I've written a brochure about scientific writing. It's written in German and I can only highly recommend it if you are working on your thesis -- and understand German.
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A “Strange Days”/”Google Glass” Like Perspective on Sexism/Gender

2013-08-01

"Tests" whether something is sexist or not -- e.g., whether men have to deal with it -- not only do not work, they are incredibly arrogant. But perhaps a change of perspective might help. And there might soon be an app for that.
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Reading Digitally (Videos)

2013-07-17

Two videos showing my reading workflow -- how everything I highlight is exported and how it ends up in my topic notebooks. Very comfortable way in dealing with notes.
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What teaching should also be about

2013-07-10

Reducing my teaching statement into one sentence shouldn't be controversial. And I still stand by it.
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Skills

2013-06-18

Beautiful music video and some thoughts on the importance of skills.
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Workshop: Scientific Work — Dealing with Data

2013-06-05

Before you star that study, you should know a few things about the data you will gather. Otherwise you will invest a lot of effort and end up with nothing. Also: Data Analyses and how to deal with complex results.
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Coursera’s “Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques” starts today!

2013-05-28

Interesting course of Coursera that might be worth a look.
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.