MindBook Creating in Images and Text Presenters: John Allen Scott Glass Glenbrook South HS, Glenview, Il
Student Engagement The MindBook allows me to take my normal, ordinary thoughts and make them something extraordinary. ~ Brittany The mindbook gives me a chance to explore a side of my creativity I've never been too "in-touch" with. It helps me think deeper about any given topic, take my thoughts, and, with guidelines, express them on the page. It isn’t easy, but I really enjoy the mindbook. --Isabella I really enjoy the MindBook! It gives me a chance to be creative and try out my ideas without always being graded and judged.
Active Observation I always try to be intimate with the world...to feel love for it or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you. Gabriel Orozco I take 5000 photographs a year while walking the streets... trying to see and learn more for myself everyday. Rob Forbes
Creative Thinkers Fluency Flexibility Originality N o matter how old I get, I have the feeling that if I can keep this curiosity flame lit, I’ll see the world in a way that never gets stale. ~ Alan Alda, "Pass the Plate, Mr. Feynman" I f novelists think, perhaps this is how we think: through a frenzy of metaphor-making and analogy building, an accretion of meaningful images juxtaposed in ways that seem to us fruitful, although to someone else they might seem baffling.” ~Andrea Barrett, “The Sea of Information” D ivergent thinking is not much use without the ability to tell a good idea from a bad one, and this selectively involves convergent thinking. ~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “The Creative Personality”
Skills An exciting interplay of divergent and convergent thinking Synthesis Aesthetics Repurposing Craftsmanship & Design Writing Cartooning Remixing/Mashups Breaking rules & lim- its in meaning- ful ways Form is content
The MindBook is chance to take the discombobulated thoughts of your brain and turn them into something wonderful. ~ Humanities student
Skills Repurposing
Skills Cartooning
Skills Form is Content
Skills Form is Content
Skills Form is Content
Skills Craftsmanship
Skills Craftsmanship
Skills Craftsmanship
Skills Craftsmanship
Skills Appropriation and Remix
Skills Writing
Skills Writing
Skills Writing
Inside the MindBook Self-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Self-Guided Entries
Inside the Mind- Book Self-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Self-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries
Inside the MindBook Teacher-Guided Entries (JA)
Inside the MindBook Note-Making I love it! My thoughts don’t have to be structured and pre-set, like the lines on paper. I can take notes the way my brain works.
I can explore ideas without being restricted to lines of a notebook page.
The MindBook allows one to be creative without the constraints of lined pages. Write as big, as spread out, or as lopsided as you desire!
Inside the MindBook I.D. intent & discovery Each entry must have a written statement that explains your entry’s Intent and the Discoveries you made by completing it. Clearly label it “ID:Date” (ID: 9/23/12). This should take about four to five solid sentences. IDs should be located either on the back side of the entry or on the facing page. No exceptions. Typed, concise, clear writing.
Inside the MindBook The Reflective Statement How do the entries for the quarter illuminate each other? What new ideas and opportunities for further exploration do they offer as a group?
Assessment Presentation & Craftsmanship Your entry demonstrates exemplary care and finish in its rendering of color, line, plane, structure, and composition. All forms of language and lettering are clear and easy to read. Reach & Boldness Your entry demonstrates a strong level of intellectual, emotional, and creative reach. It's clear that the entry is the result of deep imagining rather than going for things within comfortable reach--what one would too easily expect from the entry's purpose. Focus on the Prompt Your entry clearly understands the prompt because it exploits virtually all of its requirements and levels of complexity. In short, the entry takes full advantage of the most interesting and important opportunities the entry provides.
What I love about the MindBook is it gave me a great opportunity to broaden my creative and metaphysical horizons within the covers of a blank canvas. The MindBook is still my favorite piece of work from my high school career. ~ Dakota A Creative Life The MindBook acts as a textbook that YOU write.
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