integrity – Page 44 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity

2013-11-04

Some reflections and a lot of quotations about solitude vs. loneliness.
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Thinking Critically — What did really happen?

2013-11-03

There is a lot of misinformation out there -- deliberate or accidental. An argument for thinking critically and starting with the basic question: What did really happen?
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Selection Processes

2013-11-02

A short rant about the role of the selection process, esp. in academia.
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Privacy, Security, Ethics and Science (esp. Psychology)

2013-11-02

A few points about privacy from my perspective as a (social) scientist -- and where social scientists, esp. psychologists -- fail when it comes to data privacy issues.
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Finding passages that are the same in two documents with Microsoft Word

2013-11-01

A simple trick to quickly see which passages in two documents are the same -- with Word (not which have changed which is what you usually get with the compare documents function).
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Plagiarism #5 — Preventing Plagiarism

2013-10-27

Some suggestions on how to deal with plagiarism. (And yup, that image on the left from Wikipedia was chosen deliberately.)
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Plagiarism #4 — Consequences of Plagiarism

2013-10-27

A look at the consequences of plagiarism -- if there are consequences. Based on literature like the one to the left.
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How Ads bias your perception, or: how an ad campaign for a good purpose can be really bad

2013-10-22

A look at a very bad ad campaign that does not understand what it criticizes and actually hurts people.
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Applying a psychological theory: A creative way to assess student learning

2013-10-17

An in-depth description of a constructivist task I gave my students to assess their learning -- and get them to learn in the first place. Was a fun course and I think a helpful one.
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Plagiarism #3 — Reactions to Plagiarism

2013-09-28

What are some reactions to plagiarism? From the person who was plagiarized and from people who do it (when they are questioned about it). Note: Look for a barf-bag first. Based among others on the article to the left.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

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.