Final presentation

Attached are the screen shots of our presentation slides.

Final Presentation
How to deal with problematic people in class during presentation

Short after the presentation, there's a Q & A session between the audience. For those who answered correctly were rewarded with chocolates!

But the best thing is, when we played the creative video montage, everyone seems to be paying 101% attention to our presentation.

Here's a quote from our dearest lecturer, Mr. Razi:

" Good effort. You have managed to attract the audience by successfully using one of your solutions. Its creative yet effective"

Although we received his compliments, there's still a room for improvements. Until we meet next time. I would like to wish all of you good luck on finals and all the best. Yeahh!

+cheerio+

Creative Video Montage

To draw more attention form the audience, we've decided to do something that is different from others. Usually we just present plain words. It would be boring to see plain text displayed on the screen, but if we come out with something that is fun to watch definitely the audience would pay extra attention to the presenter. By using a simple handy cam and a handful help from the rest of the team, here's our own creative video montage:

Enjoy!

Group Assignment : Phase 3

Group Assignment : Phase 3
Stage 1 of idea generation (solutions)
How to deal with problematic people in class during presentation?

1. Presenter must approach the audience who is not paying attention.

2. Presenter must be flexible in order to make the audience stay alert during the presentation. For example, the presenter can move around or as interesting questions to the audience.

3. Presenter must have sense of humor to make the presentation more interesting.

4. Presenter must have knowledge on what he or she is presenting .This is because the presenter must ensure that he or she send the right information to the audience.

5. Before start the presentation, presenter can use warm up session to give up gist to the audience.

6. Presenter must well-prepared in all aspect. For example, preparation for presentation material (interactive animation in stead of using Power Point slides), communication skills and appearance.

7. The presenter must have the ability to create multiple character .For example funny or serious and must be depends on the situation.

8. Give reward to the audience during questions and answer session. So the audience will pay more attention.

9. Hire a groupie to support your presentation in order to attract more attention.

10. The environment can affect mood. Therefore, by set up the great environment the audience may concentrate the presentation. For example provide facilities.

5 Most Creative / Effective solutions.

How to deal with problematic people in class during presentation

1. Presenter must have knowledge on what he or she is presenting .This is because the presenter must ensure that he or she send the right information to the audience in order to avoid misunderstanding.

2. Before start the presentation, presenter can use warm up session to give up gist to the audience.

3. Presenter must well-prepared on presentation material such as interactive material (flash or animation) in stead of using power point slides.

4. Give reward to the audience during questions and answer session. So the audience will pay more attention.

5. The environment can affect mood. Therefore, by set up the great environment the audience may concentrate the presentation. For example provide facilities.

+cheers+

Group Assignment : Phase 2

Based from random image association, we've come out with our pre-solutions. These ideas are not the final solutions. The stepping stone technique is very useful in generating brilliant ideas! Below are the sketched ideas:



For next stage, these ideas will be written in a proper form of solutions.

+cheers+

Report

From the mind map, we compiled up the information and translate it into report form.

Here's our full report:

Report
Dealing with problematic people

From what we quote from the net, “a problem exists when an individual becomes aware of a significant difference between what actually is and what is desired.”

In our context problematic people in class during presentation usually are students. We as presenters have to go back to the root of the problem in order to determine the solutions later on.

Why problematic people exits? From our research 70% of the reason this problem happens because of the presenter. The most common thing that triggers the problem is wrong selection of topic. The topic might bore the audiences. Secondly, the presenter speech, either low voice projection or speaking to fast may affect the audiences’ concentration. Sometimes level of knowledge of the audience will make the presenter lack of confidence and nervous which will cause the presenter tend to make mistakes.

Certain presenter doesn’t use the body language in a correct way such as eye contact, body gesture and etc. He must show full interest towards the presentation.

Other than presenter students’ attitude also play the main role. Sometimes they are self-centered, they don’t care anything else. Students disrespect the presenter by doing other things instead of concentrate and they themselves not interested either the topic or the presenter himself. Last but not least some audience may have ADT, Attention Deficit Trait but they are not aware of it. ADT is a syndrome where the person is too obsess with the technology such as handphone, psp and etc.

What are the problem that problematic people do when the presenter are presenting their presentation. On the top of the list, is doodling, as they only need a piece of paper and pencil to doodle. Next, day dreaming. Some people, body here but mind outside somewhere else and then talking to each other which also will distract other people, listening to mp3,and sms.

Actually the presentation need to have its magical touch such as visual support-flip chart, slides, handout, models; audio support then only it would attract the audience’s precious interest. Another key is found, “interest”. It is hard to measure people’s interest as they vary from each other. The idea is to come out with a solution that can gather all of their interest and focus on the presenter. This is the skill that normally a presenter lack of , in other word they need to acquire this set of skill in order to deliver a superb presentation. What is means by superb here is, the audience get the right picture and maintained with the presenter until the presentation settled.

Stepping stone

After done with mind map, next would be idea generation for solution. As I mentioned before, there are many ways to generate idea. Its just how do we interpret the ideas and turn them into solutions. Very simple, think outside the box. Think like when you were a small kid. Just be ridiculous!

Here's a quote:

"Stepping stone techniques involves taking advantage of other people's initial ideas or from one’s own ideas when trying to solve a problem. Ideas that are often discarded due to reasons which either they won't work, or because they are illogical. The concept of the stepping stone method is first to record these ‘crazy’ ideas, and than turn it into ideas that is workable and feasible"

Random word / image association would be the easiest way to generate crazy ideas. Just pick any random word or image, and use that image to produce pin point for solution. At first we chose rose as our random image, but found that we cant extract much pin point from it, so we picked a new random image which is radio. Attached below are the pictures taken of our sketched ideas.

Now that we've got the key words , next would be building up the solutions to the problem statement.

+cheers+

Group Assignment

Assignment 2: Thematic project.

As for this project, it requires a group consist of 5 members and a problem. The task is very simple, just look around for existing problem that lies in our daily life. It can be a unique or common ones, as long as it has solutions.

Now by working in a group, try to come out with creative solutions that can remedy the problem. It can be crazy, unusual, weird, u name it. The solution needs to different from the old ones, but works at the same time. There are many ways to generate creative ideas, techniques such as random word / image association, brain storming, juxtaposition; can be used.

So we sat down in a group, and list down a couple of common problems that can be found anywhere near us. Everyone seems to dislike presentation. I wonder why. Hurmmm. It supposed to be something that can attract people's interest. Without the interest to listen to the presenter, a presentation would be useless as the message has not been successfully delivered to the audience.
Therefore we've decided to take this issue as our problem statement.

Below is a mind map that represents the problem. The issue is placed at the center of mind map. We've used 4 wife, 1 husband technique to further expand the problem.


Next is to translate this mind map into essay form and to be submitted to the lecturer.

+cheers+

Random word / image association

We use random word / image association for one of idea generation method which allows people to generate new ideas through a set of guidelines. This is done by triggering the brain to stimulate creative thoughts by using any random word or image to produce solutions.

Situation / problem:

To produce an image that can create fear to public.

Random image / word:

Based from the above (soft, smelly and dirty), the possible image may look something like this;

A soft and soggy monster, with annoying sound and smell that came from its body. This monster will creep through out the city at night looking for its prey. I named it Slimey. So beware!

+cheers+

Analogy

Analogy use something that has no apparent connection to the object to explain something about the object. The main use of analogies in daily conversation is to use something familiar to explain something complex. Analogy can be divided into 2 parts, Logical and Affective analogies which is proven to be useful in idea generation.

Logical analogies

- Are analogies, which use similarities in the design, structure or function of to connect back to the subject.

Example: A cheetah can be compared to a sports car as they are capable of traveling at high speeds.

Affective analogies

- Are the emotional resemblance.

Example: Mary is like a kitten because she's playful.

For today's class activity, the exercise would be creating a passage or writing that describes the concept of Love.

a) Mountain

Love can be cold,

Love can be hot,
No matter whether you're old,
Or you're not hot,
You'll always be in my heart.

b) Plastic money

Money can buy me a car,
Money can buy me a house,
There's one thing that money can't buy me;
The priceless love of yours.

(unless she's a gold digger)

c) Time

Men and women are like watch,
Hours and minutes work together to show values,
If one dies, the other half would be virtually useless.

d) Garbage

Women nowadays see men like garbage,
They doesn't know how to appreciate,
They just simply dump men away whenever, wherever they want to.

JuxXtaposition

Definition: A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as a juxtaposition of words. It can be done by either using WORDS or IMAGES.

On today's in class exercise, a set of words is given along with numbering, then student is required to choose 3 sets of number which consist a pair of number in each set. So i chose 26, 19, 87.


By using the table above, here's the output that i get by using my choice.

2-6 : lightning spider

1-9 : flower rain

8-7 : oil tree

Next step would be creating a sentence out of the words. Then try to visualize it. After that, illustrate what I have visualized.

2-6 : lightning spider
- The lightning strikes a spider.

1-9 : flower rain

- Today the world is showered by rain of flowers.



8-7 : oil tree
- That tree produces a large amount of oil.


There you go. Although the outcome doesn't make any sense, but i think its a good way to generate new ideas. Who knows what u might get from this technique, it might be creative or the other way round.

Novelty, creativity, innovation & invention.

In today's lecture, Mr. Razi talked about the history and importance of novelty, creativity, innovation and invention.

"The creative person is one who generates new ideas while the creative process is how these new ideas, solutions, and inventions are produced. It is said that, we are all naturally creative. From poetry to building a house, from computer programming to humor, from music to science, creativity is manifested in a variety of different ways. The aim is to understand the complexity of creativity and to comprehend its mystery through a structured program of learning."

Taken from lecture slides.

To get further understanding, i searched at Google for these key words and found a couple of information.

"Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension (e.g. a new style of art coming into being, such as abstract art or impressionism) it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. It also refers to something novel; that which is striking, original or unusual."

"Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new."
"The term innovation means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations. A distinction is typically made between Invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully."

"An invention is the finding or creation of a new configuration, composition of matter, device, or process. Some inventions are based on pre-existing models or ideas. Other inventions are radical breakthrough which may extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience."

Example:
Based on above, we can see that these key words are interrelated. Therefore, in order to be creative, we need to combine these aspects together. I believe that if one can master this technique, he or she will be a legendary people in the history of mankind. To support my statement, have a look at these examples:

Sir Einstein has invented many formulas, but most of them are pretty hard to understand as the ideas are different from existing ones. Gradually, people start to appreciate his works and in the end he received nobel award.
Sir Leonardo Da Vinci. He is known for his creative works as came out with many creative ideas. Some example of his ideas:



Want to be famous like them? Be creative from now onwards!

Class activity. Me as a speaker box?

For this week's class activity, it requires me to work in a pair with the other class mates. So i decided pair with my buddy, a.k.a Fareez. The task is simple, draw an image that represents each other. First of all, list down the characteristics, and from there choose an image that reflects your buddy the best. Here's my details and characteristics described by Fareez.

Name: Azri Fikri Bin Osman

Nick: Azri / abg UP

Age: 21 years old. Old enough to act like an adult

Very talkative at times

Stubborn

Love to pump up the speaker when listening to music (yeahhh!)

Future debater

So based on these details, he concluded that a speaker represents me the best. Haha. Cool. Here's the image that he drew.


Later i converted the image to a better looking one, owh, a creative one. B)
+cheers!+

What is creative? Are you creative enough?

Lets start with the word "Creative".

"Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas and concepts , or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new."

Quoted from Wikipedia.

Based from the definition above, what we can safely say that creativity defines new conceptual ideas. Everyone can be a creative person. Creativity lies in each and every of us, not only human, it also applies to the other living things as well! Sometimes we do need creativity to handle / solve problems in our daily life. The only problem is how do we become a creative person?

Its easy. You just have to think outside the box. We as human, usually follow a set of guidelines or rules that has been set by our brain. This what prevents us from being creative. A good example of creative person is kids. They are the one thinks outside the box. They don't care whether it is wrong or true, relevant or nonsense, where and when. That what makes they creative.

For example, check out this video. It's taken from youtube.



We know that a skateboard can only accommodate a person at one time. But by using a little bit of creativity, these kids have managed to ride together on a single skateboard! And the best thing is, they are safe and sound. Awesome. =D

Hello Creativity

Greetings all!

Throughout this semester I'll be using this blog as a medium of sharing for my creative journal. All post will be based on my daily life routines that can be related to creativity. The idea is to update the blog with all the creative things that i gained from attending lectures and personal experiences, or in other words, something like an e-Diary. Therefore it should be fun and interesting! Without creativity, everything would simply be boring. Agree?

Let's get creative!