Creativity

Cross-Curricular Multipotentialites

September 1, 2022August 19, 2022 johndabell 0 Comments Barbara Sher, eclecticism, Emilie Wapnick, multipods, multipotentialite, polymath, Renaissance person, Scanners

Do you have a superpower? Perhaps you have more than one? You could well be a multipotentialite. Writer and artist

Art Creativity

Tableaux Vivants

September 29, 2021September 7, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments tableaux vivants

As a child, our art teacher Mrs Montgomery, was ahead of her time. She took risks and dared to be

Creativity

Experiment House

September 7, 2021July 13, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments C.S. Lewis, Experiment House, Summerhill School, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Teachers are encouraged to be creative and experiment in their classrooms although not too much. Senior leaders and managers don’t

Creativity

Chindogu: The Art of the Un-Useless

August 6, 2021July 4, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments chindogu, Dan Papia, invention, Japan, Kenji Kawakami, un-useless

There are some things that are useful but also useless at the same time. They sort of serve a purpose

Creativity Words

Alphabent

July 23, 2021June 22, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments alphabet, David Parlett, word games, word play

One of the joys finding a book behind a book is coming across some gems that you’d parked and sort

Creativity Language

A Novel Idea

July 11, 2021May 29, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments Christian Bök, constrained writing, Ernest Vincent Wright, Georges Perec, Gilbert Adair, James Thurber, lipogram, Mark Dunn

When you impose constraints on writing then it becomes more of a challenge and that’s a good thing. It’s a

Creativity LEGO Writing

Literacy and LEGO Minifigures

July 7, 2021May 21, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments creativity, LEGO, literacy, minifigures, speaking and listening, writing

The centrepieces of any LEGO are the LEGO Minifigures, also known as a ‘minifigs’. They were first introduced in 1978

Creativity Language

Metaphorical Comparisons

July 3, 2021May 20, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments imaginative comparison, metaphor, similie

There is a great activity in the book Five-Minute Activities by Penny Ur and Andrew Wright called Metaphors. This is

Creativity

Pun Names And Book Titles

June 21, 2021May 12, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments creativity, puns

I’ve always been a sucker for a good pun and especially when it comes to book titles and pun names.

Creativity

Lateral Thinking Puzzles

June 7, 2021May 6, 2021 johndabell 0 Comments creative thinking, lateral thinking

Thinking in straight lines isn’t good for us because we only see forwards and backwards. Thinking is far more chaotic

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