Creative Thinking Tools to Learn

This website is a resource for creative thinking tools providing pdfs, ppts, links to many other resources devoted to Creative Thinking Tools

Yes Hammers Can Be Used for More Than Pounding in Nails

This website has been set up to share an ongoing, ongrowing collection of information about tools based upon the design of the session I planned for 2009 Mindcamp.

Adam and Eve had some creative thinking tools in the Garden Eden. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans had them too. Lenny and Mickey during the 1500s had them. Vincent, Tom, Albert, Alex and Sid all invented creative thinking tools. Today you can find creative thinking tools around the globe. They come in all colors of the rainbow. There are mental/intellectual tools, physical tools, emotional tools. There are individual tools, tools for pairs, teams, entire audiences or crowds Tools can be rational, systematic, holistic, playful and mind expanding. They can range from the serious to the silly to down-right strange or bizarre.

This 1/2 day session was designed to provide the participants with on going, fast to slow paced experience with a wide variety of creative thinking tools to use from messing around with challenges or dreams, finding facts, examining problems, generating a few ideas to thousands or millions of ideas, to selecting the best ideas to turning ideas into a successful plan.

Bring you tool belts, tool kits, tool boxes and learn a bunch more tools you can use immediately.

Initial PPT presentation 38 MB size

 

PDF files for you

HAVE BALLOONS, CRAYONS & HOOLA HOOPS! LET'S MEET

INVOLVING LARGE AUDIENCES

Involving Audiences from 40 to 40,000 will be added soon.

Sample collection of websites focused on tools

http://www.cre8ng.com/learntobemorecreativenow.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativethinkingtools.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/mypresentationapproach.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/learningtolearn.htm

 

EDUCATION Webpages

These pages are focused on education and the integration of creativity, creative thinking, creative teaching, creative facilitating and creative problem solving in all classrooms from K to Ph.D. Browse them at your convenience. Some are in process of growing. Others were experiments that have not been completed yet.

I have been studying learning, teaching, training, facilitating, presenting, performing, learning experience creation since 1976 when I began as a volunteer teacher with 22 academically gifted elementary school children including my late son Jeff who caused the spark and the beginning of my jounrey of the past 33 years and continues to now.

http://www.cre8ng.com/32ways.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/askalanquestions.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/C.r.e.8.n.g.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/crayonbreakingproject.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/createwithalan.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativethinking.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativethinkingtools.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativityquestions.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creativityquotes.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/creatology1979.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/explodingyourcreativity.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/learningtolearn.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/learntobemorecreativenow.htm

http://www.cre8ng.com/newsletter.shtml

http://www.cre8ng.com/openspace.htm