Week 10 - finish assessments

As mentioned, I am away today (George will supervise). Today is your last lesson for the year. You are to complete all of your assessments by the end of the lesson. Remember to read resources on my blog if you need assistance in writing well.

Week 9 - Work on your Assessments

For those that weren't here in the previous weeks, you need to familiarise yourself with the work required to complete the three units you are studying.  Here is a summary:

CUFANM301A Create 2D Digital animations

• 01 Create a Bouncing Ball - Assessment Event PDF document
• 02 Animation Theory - Quiz
• 03 Class Exercises - Upload 2 animations you have completed in class exercises (eg. sunset, car stopping at traffic lights, aerial view of car driving along motion path)

BSBCRT301A Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills

• 01 Walking Stick Flyer - Assessment Event (create name, slogan and flyer design)
• 02 Complete all activities listed on Week 7 of my blog!

CUFWRT301A Write content for a range of media

• 01 Walking Stick Flyer - Assessment Event (body text for flyer)
• 02 Complete all activities listed on Week 7 of my blog!

Week 8 - Challenge, test and re-invent ideas

Different Points of View

Six Thinking Hats
Source: Mind Tools - http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm

Class Discussion: Discuss and assign roles:

White Hat:

With this thinking hat you focus on the data available. Look at the information you have, and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them.
This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.
Red Hat:
'Wearing' the red hat, you look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
Black Hat:
Using black hat thinking, look at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it cautiously and defensively. Try to see why it might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows you to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them.
Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans 'tougher' and more resilient. It can also help you to spot fatal flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action. Black Hat thinking is one of the real benefits of this technique, as many successful people get so used to thinking positively that often they cannot see problems in advance. This leaves them under-prepared for difficulties.
Yellow Hat:
The yellow hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.
Green Hat:
The Green Hat stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem. It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. A whole range of creativity tools can help you here.
Blue Hat (teacher):
The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking. When contingency plans are needed, they will ask for Black Hat thinking, etc.

Analyse existing Advertisement

Group: Use your '6 hat' role to critique the following advertisement.  Post your response on your individual blog.  Report your findings to the class.




Assessment: Create an A5 Flyer


Individual: After hearing all points of view, create a flyer for walking sticks.  The ad must be targeted at Gen Y.

What factors are likely to block our creativity?
What boundaries/restrictions exist?
Can we overcome these?