BLOG CONTENT REQUIREMENTS
Student's personal blog is perceived as an electronic notebook for streamlined collection of bits of newly gained information, random thoughts, idea sketches, reflections on the topics discussed in the class, comments on instructor's blog posts - in all various formats: texts, links, citations, images, video and audio files (your own photos, drawings, sound recordings, video shoots as well as those picked up from elsewhere). As soon as the expected outcome of the course is some idea (even most modest, but necessarily 'home-made', invented by yourself), the blog should help to fix and document the stages of nurturing / fine-tuning/ honing some initially raw and blurred dream.
To give you a hint of how your blog should be brough into life, so that it's an enjoyble exercise rather that an odious duty, I would recommend to regularly post on the following topics:
- your dream or vision or some problem which needs a solution. Your research findings, hesitations, acquiring different alternatives, attempts to apply/approriate/adjust models and cases from any different domain of science, technology, economy,culture.
- your feedback to the books, ideas, facts, methods, personalities etc. discussed during the class and presented on the CreativiADA blog. The snowball effect of collectively cumulated and collectively tested knowledge will help you to arrive at unexpected discoveries and creative insights!
- all your input to announced prospective strands of group undertakings - a book with stories about inventions and discoveries, series of T-shirt designs, a whitepaper on increasing zones of creativity round the ADA University Campus, a video/ a guide book/ an audioguide application about inspringly funky spots throughout the town in Baku, a sound art/performance with Mobile Phones Orchestra, a comic stripe book with lifehack anectodes, a montly newsletter "Creativity in 100 days" based on materials picked up from your blogs
- your own initiatives and proposals on what could be discussed or designed during the class. We don't need you to be only diligent in executing the task. Creativity starts with your desire to improve the given passage of things!