Week 1: 12 September - 18 September

Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


Today, 13 September 2011 is the very first class for Creativity & Innovation subject. Our lecturer, Mr. Mohd Nasir bin Masroom came out to our class with a friendly face and introduce himself and gave some guideline about this subject to us.


He told us including the course description, the learning outcome of this subject and the evaluation of this subject.


He also asked us to prepare a reflection journal, in what type, interface as well as we have to submit that reflection journal on the due date which is on 27th December 2011. Besides to prepare the reflection journal that shared all our footprints through this subject,we also required to prepare group assignment.


We could choose whether we would like to do creativity project (related to marketing) or creativity games(simulation).


Below is the provision for carry mark of this subject:

1. Tasks (10%)
2. Test (20%)
3. Journal (15%)
4. Report of Group Assignment (5%)
5. Presentation (10%)
6. Final Exam (50%)

Hopefully I can have the best carry mark for this subject, insha Allah.. :)

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15 September 2011

Today, I have formed my team members which consisting me, Wan Azimah (Zie), Li Hui (Johnny), Siti Roihan (Roihan), and Nurul Izaity (Izzai).

Mr. Nasir started the first lecture today. Today we learnt what is creativity, creative methods and also myths about creative thinking and problem solving.

And it's my pleasure to hare with all of you, in brief about those what I had learnt...

1. What is creativity?

• ability to imagine or invent something new (based on existence resources)
• an attitude; ability to accept change and newness
• a process; creative people work hard and continually to improve ideas and solutions.

2. Creative Methods

• Evolution ; (method of incremental improvement)
• Synthesis; (two or more existing ideas are combined into a third -> new idea.
• Revolution; sometimes the best new idea is a different one, a marked change from the completely previous ones.
• Reapplication; look at something old in a new way.
• Changing direction ; many creative breakthroughs occur when attention is shifted from one angle of a problem to another.

3. Myths about creative thinking & problem solving.

• Every problem has only one solution / or one best anwer.
• Best answer/solution/method has already been found.
• Creative answers are complex technologically.

P/s: Today I've started to believe that I also can become creative! ;)