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http://www.creativity-portal.com/

OK, time to give this website a second shot.

Creativity Portal is a good place to start looking for stuff on creativity or creative things.

This extends from comics to creativity coaching.

Creativity Coaching is an attempt to get people to think more creatively and to help people to boost their creativity. Some advice from one of the many Creativity Coaches is things such as scheduling some time just for something that will boost your creativity, in other words a chance to relax or buying yourself something you like that could nurture creativity, buying a single flower and putting it in a glass, get into PJs early and relax in bed, design your own mugs and things by glueing beads and things on and so on and so forth.

There are hands on projects for Christmas, Halloween, Easter ect on another section on the site which could be fun to do with the Rainbows... I will explain that later. An example is http://kids.creativity-portal.com/free/winter.printables.shtml which has winter gift tags.

Rainbows are the precursor to Brownies and Guides, and is for 5-7 year old girls, and run by the Guide Assoisation. Well tecnically, my local pack is run by my Mum and is the pack I went to when I was little. Our pack is about 12-15 girls big and has a waiting list of girls who have yet to reach 5. (For full details see http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/whoweare/Default.asp)

We are in an eviable position in the area.

However having this many girls for so long, you have to try to come up with different things every week to do with them, you can't just fob them off with the same arts and crafts again and again and again, so sites like this are very helpful at Christmas when we need a new craft for the last but one week, with the last week always being the Christmas Party (I'm going to miss it this year! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!)

Helping Mum run the pack is great, although most of the girls who were there before I came up here have left now :(

It's strange to go back for a weekend or the holidays only to find there are new Rainbows and I don't recognise half of them.

As a Young Leader (I'm old enough to be trained as a full Leader but don't have the time), I have to work with the Rainbows and help them in everything we do, make sure they don't get hurt and as the Leader's Daughter I have to help Mum come up with things to make with them.

It's not an easy job from week to week, we get shitty parents, girls who just WILL NOT behave at all, ever, and some weeks the other leaders can't come and the mums won't help and by the end of it we sometimes wonder why we've done it for so long.

My Mum has been Pack Leader since I was there, that's how much she loves it really.

I was offered a place in a pack up here, but since I struggle for time as it is, I turned it down.

Anyway, I've completely lost track of what the hell I was tlaking about so I'll stop here and say weeeeeeeeeee only 7 days to go.

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Countdown to Battle - 9 Days to go

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Countdown to Battle - 9 Days to Go.

Nine days to go and today I will do something useful...

Today I will blog about this website... http://www.creativity-portal.com/

Creativity Portal is a website that talks about creativity in more then just one form and gives teachers ideas to use in thier classrooms.

Ummm, ran out of time to blog because I was procrastinating so have another vid...



Another Omake from Amecon last year and I will blog properly tomorrow. I will.

Duellist Honour.

Joey


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Countdown to Battle - 13, 12, 11, 10 oops.

Wow, it took me all of a day to forget to blog.

To be fair I've been so busy of over the last few days that I just havenm't had time to blog.

However...

Since I'm waiting for a friend, I'm going to sit here and rant about stupid Ra damned estate agents who don't give people a chance to find someone else to live with them next year and decide that they want to show people round without actually warning you because they are complete and utter B******DS!

F******G idiots, I need that B****Y house for next year and I'm going to find someone to share with me and I've tried everyone in second year now and have started asking the first years and I might be in luck but if I'm not fast then I'm not going to have anywhere to stay next year and then I'm going to kill someone.

Namely the bloody idiot who decided that now would be a good time to start looking for people for the houses when most people don't start looking until after Christmas.

They are F*****G Idiots and I hate them all.

GRRR!

DEATH TO ALL ESTATE AGENTS IN LEICESTER WHO WORK WITH UNI'S BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL BLOODY MORONS WHO NEED TO DIE!

Ok, I feel better now.

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Joey

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Countdown to Battle - 14 Days To Go

This is the start of my one blog a day countdown until Pokemon Battle Revolution comes out.

For anyone who has followed my blog, you all know how much I want this game and how much I've been blogging about it, it's even gone in my blog's signature.

So... 14 days to go.

Before I get too serious have a vid,

KINGDOM HEARTS DOES DBZ - HotPinkMidNite


Ok, back to getting on with it.

Creativity...

Creativity is a rather broad subject and I find that everytime I start on research I get so far before I find something interesting and go off on completely the wrong angle.

Is this a creative way of researching or am I just procrastinating? Even I don't know.

Creativity covered a lot of things, music, art, writting, games, modelling, photography and it's even in there with numbers and science wouldn't get anywhere if people didn't try new things.

Where would we be without the wheel?

The fact of the matter is that it comes from the root creatus, which in latin means to have grown, and I really do think that creativity has been expanded to the point where it is hard to pin down.

I have a fun thing to do, go to this site, http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=creativity&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&rd=r1, and have a look at some of the things here.

It is a fudgeing long list, with all sorts, from the wikipedia page on Creativity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativityto a shop in Sheringham called Creativity. http://www.creativity-sheringham.co.uk/.

This one looked good, http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/Creativity_in_kids.html, so I think, since I'm planning a countdown, I'll choose to talk about this one today.

The term "gifted" is often used to imply high intelligence. I would say that I have to agree, thinking back to the gifted and talented program back in my Senior School, which started in my year nine or ten, where those of us with a chance of doing something with thier lives (Sorry. Not...) were taken out of school and shown around universities, mostly the local ones that us going to had benifits for our school, but it was still interesting to see what a University Campus was like and talk to some of the students to see what Uni life is like.

If I remember rightly, the 'Gifted' students were those with high grades in Maths, English, Science, French and all the acedmic subjects, while the 'Talented' ones were the ones who were skilled in the non-acedemic subjects like Music, Art and Drama.

The first time we had a meeting we were given little stickers that were either yellow, red or both. Red for Gifted, Yellow for Talented or both for, well, both.

Being a red sticker girl myself, I found a distrubing amount of red stickers had no real head for anything remotly creative, prefering either to stick thier noses in books, or go out and play football (I suppose football is creative but most of the time they put that creativity into creative ways to dive, which was incredibly annoying), and as such I spent a great deal of my time on trips with yellow sticker people, just because most of my friends were in that group and they had more interesting things to talk about...

Oh Ra, I'm getting distracted again.

Anyway so, I agree with the website on this point.

It's not a long report and I happen to agree with most of what they are saying, including the 'right answer fixation' thing. From a young age you can't be creative with answers because the teachers expect the right answer every time and get angry if you get it wrong.

This is all because of the rediculously early age that tests start, meaning that for a school to do well , they have to be turning out right answer monkeys without a thought of creativite answering in thier head.

This is reinforced by the amount of testing that children of forced into, has everyone heard of the SATs they give at the end of Infant School? I jest you not. That is how bad the school system has gotten.

Ranting. calm... calm... get one with work...

Anyway, I like their list of things that adult can do at home to increase creativity, since creativity is all but squished out of children at school.

Infants is bad, Junior School is worse because they have SATs at the end of year six and most of thier art lessons (or at least in the school I came from) are overly structured and not really creative. Senior School/High School is probably the worst though seeing as they teach you creative subjects, but unless you have a good teacher (Thank you Mr Hulbert), you want to tear your hair out by the end of year eleven.

So a list like this is helpful,

How Can Adults Encourage Creativity?

Provide an environment that allows the child to explore and play without undue restraints.

Adapt to children's ideas rather than trying to structure the child's ideas to fit the adult's.

Accept unusual ideas from children by suspending judgement of children's divergent problem-solving.

Use creative problem-solving in all parts of the curriculum. Use the problems that naturally occur in everyday life.

Allow time for the child to explore all possibilities, moving from popular to more original ideas.

Emphasize process rather than product.

Am I the only one who sees that these could be used in the education system to great effect?

Anyway, for now, this will do.

An epic blog to kick off my Countdown to Battle.

Joey

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PS - I HAVE A PLACE AT AMECON 2008 AND AM NOW LOOKING AT COSPLAY :)

I'm sorry, the lights are home but there's nobody on

Yes, I did in fact say that to a customer on Sunday, while trying to wake up enough to work.

Note to everyone, I will be leaving work offically on the 1st of December.

This will give me enough time to do some Ra Damned work.

I will write a serious blog when I get home.

But for now, I have nothing to say because all my mind wants to do is curl up in a ball and sleep.

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Muahahaha Anime.

Yes I know.

We're not supposed to talk about anime and manga, however I have to say this one tiny little thing....

AMECON REGISTRATION OPENS SOON!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry.

But I'm excited.

And slightly terrified since that means I can no longer procrastinate about getting the cosplay sorted for next year...

So while I run around like a headless chicken, here's the short movie created for last year's Amecon which was done by MakenaiTeam.



Yes, I am aware it's random and yes I do think it's funny.

ULTIMATE GLOMP!

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It arrived!!!!

It have arrived and it is mine. Muahahahahahaha!

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BTW - Ebay is evil

And to be avoided at all costs.

However, I managed to get some bargans.

Like this silver and gold plated necklace, which normaly retails at £100-£70 pound for £40

And I have a new Magician for my deck...

Anyway, that's enough for tonight...

Joey

BTW - I still want

7/12/07 hurry up.

I have to pray that with giving up work, I can afford this.

How many Otaku does it take to open a door?

A little joke at my own expense, after the events of last Tuesday, when it took a rather large group of us to get the door open to get Emma out of the building because the Security Guard had locked the disabled doors... grrrr.

We finally got to watch the next episode of Genshiken too :D

Anyway, sat at home, watching Cold Case and doing uni work after having the tradtional family firework dispaly and then going to watch Stardust, and I thought I'd mention on here that the next time I go into work, I'm handing in my notice.

This is to allow me to do all my uni work without getting to the point I'm at at the moment which is that my brain would explode, but it doesn't have enough energy and it's only gong to LANMA that stops me from going from Nutcase -> Psycopath.

Anyway, enough of that, creativity.

Is creativity inbuilt or is it something that can be taught?


I've been doing a bit of research on the subject and creativity can be found in anything. Drawing, writting, sports tactics, game playing and many other things.


Understanding this, I kinda guess that almost everyone is creative in thier own way. For example skateboarder's tricks are creative, trying something new with things and in areas that have been around for ages, trying things that others wouldn't. A Duellist is creative in duels because you always have to be thinking on your feet in a match or you'd be beaten easily. Authors are creative becausethey're writting something new and inspired (most of the time) and an Artist is creative because they'e using paints and pens and crayons and anything else that they an lay thier hands on to create something that is slightly different everytime even when they're copying the works of for instance, Van Gogh.

Creativity is often drowned out of people who work 9-5 day in, day out, in officeswhere they're doing the same thing all the time. That's another reason I'm glad I'll be quitting work soon. I don'have time to unwind, so I can't get the creative juices flowing. I think I made life hard for the poor life model on Tuesday, because to help me unwind and just enjoy drawing, I had my music on and was miming the words, while bouncing around a little bit. I just enjoy music, especally from games...

Gah....

Never mind, I just have to take photos of my sketch book and then I can uploadpics for my referances and things to the Wiki...

See u in the week,

Joey

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