Through this project, I combined both of my worlds: Reading Education and Gifted Education. In his 2006 TEDTALK discussion, Ken Robinson shared, "Creativity is now is as important in education as literacy..." As a teacher and graduate student in both the Reading Education M.Ed. program and the Gifted certificate/endorsement program, my two worlds have collided together. Just like literacy skills are needed throughout the subject and content areas, creativity is needed too. This webpage I created aims at sharing some of the da Vinci principles from Gelb's text, problem defining exercises, and the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) model to investigate and solve creative problems in our contemporary world. Moreover, I also included an introduction to creative communication as I share my vision of starting a project that involves students safely sharing student-created stories. I provided additional links to my other pages such as Twitter and Pinterest. I also included the Future Problem Solving Institute and the Odyssey of the Mind webpages to promote and inspire creative problem solving in schools. Overall, this project captures the cumulative experience of all my Creative Outcome Projects as they are all mentioned throughout my writing on the webpage. 

Creative Outcome 4: Due by August 1, 2015

1. Creative Website Development
2. Creative Thinking Methods & Creative Communication
3. Metaphorical Thinking and Transformation/Visualization
4. Creativity is Forever by Davis (2004) and How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci by Gelb

Statement: By August 1, I will complete a Creative Website Development project (B8) utilizing the texts by Davis, G.A. (2004 ed.) Creativity is Forever (E1) and Gelb (2000) How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci (E6) demonstrating metaphorical thinking (D5) transformation/visualization (D11) to demonstrate how to develop methods appropriate to investigate and solve creative problems in our contemporary world (C5) and develop communication and collaboration with others implementing creative productivity (C8).  I plan to include this on my developing website: www.mshuhta.weebly.com for my future students' parents and fellow educators for the following school year.

References

Davis, G.A. (2004). Creativity is forever (5th ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

Gelb, M.J. (2004). How to think like leonardo da vinci: Seven steps to genius everyday. New York, NY: Bantam Dell.