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I wrote this blog during the week of the Bring Your Own Device for Learning open on-line course.

Life is an 'ing' - Creating  BYOD4L Day 5

1/2/2014

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The final day is devoted to creating which I take to mean bringing something that is new to me into existence ie this blog and all the 'ing's' that make up the BOYD4L are potentially aspects of creativity and creating. I'm currently interested in the idea of creativity in development and with Chrissi have designed a process to enable people to share their perspectives on how it emerges from development. The narrative illustrates the process of having a novel idea, developing the idea and then making it a reality. It connects and integrates the ideas of creativity in imagining, developing, making, inventing, adapting and innovating. 

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The focus for BYOD4L is on the way in which devices and tools enable the creative process. As far as my own experience and practice  Web 2.0 tools have profoundly affected my ability to be creative/ inventive in my work in education and I'm grateful to all the people who have introduced tools and helped me use them over the years. Simply being able to create websites through drag and drop technology has enabled me to disseminate my ideas and create the infrastructure to support LWE.

Sue's collection of tools is really useful and there are many with which I'm not familiar. I will over the next few weeks try to work through them to discover which ones I can use.  I spend a lot of time creating visual aids like the narrative above to explain ideas and I'm conscious of mixing
conventional tools like powerpoint, paint, photoshop, drawing on collections of images and working with illustrators as well as harnessing some of the tools below.

A good example of this is my use of the explee animation tool described in my blog of 27/01.. to produce these animations I worked with two different illustrators some time ago - at that time I helped them shape their illustrations. These were then filed ready for retrieving at some point in the future.  That moment came when I discovered explee (thanks to Chrissi). I retrieved the drawings and did some editing using paint, photoshop and powerpoint before uploading to explee and then embedding the result in this website. They were entirely new representations that have meaning and value to me. Creativity in the digital world is often a combination of many things but it emerges through the purposes and circumstances of our life.

Over the next few weeks I intend to try out some of these tools.
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www.goodessay.biz link
23/9/2015 02:42:30 pm

I agree! Web 2.0 has really allowed me to explore new horizons and totally provided a great paradigm shift in the process of creation. Now, I find it relatively easier to create graphics and visual aids for the essays that I write. It is very empowering for a writer like me because now, I do not have to depend on other people to execute the vision that I might have. With the right tools, I can easily go ahead and design the photos and or videos that I like.

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29/11/2016 05:40:38 am

Explee animation tool helped my friend too in creating their animations. They used photoshop in putting detailed colors, and it completely adds more life to his works. It's really the collaboration that makes everything great. And of course, everything should have a good process that has to be followed. I'll be waiting for more artsy posts that will unleash the creativity in your readers.

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9/3/2021 01:31:03 pm

Good reading this posst

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