Where did it go?

There is no life I know to There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.truly wish to be.

Willy WonkaWilly Wonka

Visual thinking is about using

pictures to help you solve

problems, think about complex

issues and communicate

more effectively

This & this

And these

To show this!

Life in the fast lane: In an increasingly fast paced world we don’t make tome for creative activities.

With assignments, tests, notes, class work, and all the other “stuff” that comes with being a teenager,

student, young adult, son/daughter…

There does not seem to be enough time to do what you need to do,

Not to mention time to do the things that you want to do.

Squeezed

Out of us all.

Do we do now?

Let the child inside of you out! In your childhood, you had abilities that are hard to imagine now. Remember when a simple box was hours of fun. The boxes of the world have not changed.

Nurture creative and visual thinking in your life, as often as you can.

Nurture creative and visual thinking in your life,

even when you do not have to.

Your face here

You have to be an artist

Creativity does

not always come

from an epiphan

y.

Creativity is hard work!

MYTH

To be creative, you just need to spend some quite time alone.

MYTH

Who makes the most creative, fun, blockbuster movies that

everyone enjoys?

Cubicles are houses.

Meeting and work rooms are actually places you want to be.

In this photo provided by Pixar Animation Studios, members of Pixar Animation Studios' Ratatouille film production crew participate in a cooking class at Paulding & Company on Thursday, June 23, 2005, in Emeryville, Calif. "Ratatouille," Pixar's new movie about one rat's dream of haute cuisine came by its acting chops the old-fashioned way, turning to a real-life top chef for the inside dish on kitchen kinetics.

Creative ideas are not always great.

Being creative is a waste of time.

MYTH

Creativity is not for serious adults with serious carriers.

MYTH

1. Practice, Do it, do it some more, get better.

2. Read, good books are examples of someone else’s creativity and stimulates you own.

3. Take the time to do it. Put creative time in you DAILY schedule. You can not be creative on a rushed project.

THE assignment

Create a symbol for each of your classes.

The symbol should be a way for you to know (pneumonic) what class it is.

Blankenship

Marin (Marlin)

THE homework

Tell the story of what happens from the moment you wake up to the time you step into first period on any given school day. By the way, do it all with pictures, NO words.

Thank You

• Thank you to all who put up with watching this.

• A special thanks to poplabs and Slideshare.net for inspiration.

• Extra thanks to all those whom post wonder pictures on the internet for us all to enjoy.