Post 2 - "Creativity"

Define "Creativity"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creativity
1. The state or quality of being creative.

2. The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.

3. The process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

Class work from our game of consequences:
As a class we played a game called the 'game of consequences' we realized that we played it wrong first time round producing the creative sentence 'Amber Zoe and David Beckham met at Aqua Splash, He said "Hiya" she said "I have a chicken farm" and the consequences were, they went on a boating trip together and had a lovely trout supper'. However we played the same game again and changed it a little bit by adding nouns, verbs and adjectives to make it more creative, here is an example of what we had done:

Creativity Task Video:

The Consequences Game

As a class we all played the 'consequences game', to do this we had a piece of paper each and had to write the word 'the' and an adjective, we folded the paper over and passed it over to the next paper and they had to do the same again however this time using a noun, same again but using verb, then 'the' and adjective and lastly finishing it off with another noun. After we finished the game we were all left with the paper we started of with first and received an creative certain each to which we had to produce a picture out of the sentence, so this was my sentence I had recieved:

'The yellow rubber swims the purple plum'

Independent Study:

We were all set a task to produce an individual creative piece for our work so for my independent part of being creative I decided to produce a collage of 'me', and showing how it is being a 'Muslim', I did this by putting lots of images together with my family and my cultural beliefs:

Post 1 - Define the term "Skills"

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skill

1. The ability, coming from ones knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc, to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.

2. Competent excellence in performance; expertness; dexterity: The dancers performed with skill.

3. A craft, trade, or job requiring manual dexterity or special training in which a person has competence and experience: the skill of cabinetmaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill

A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both. Skills can often be divided into domain-general and domain-specific skills. For example, in the domain of work, some general skills would include time management, teamwork and leadership, self motivation and others, whereas domain-specific skills would be useful only for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of skill being shown and used.

My own definition of "Skills"
My own understanding of the term "skills" is meant to do something well and resulting in achieving a certain goal, skills can be part of anything for example, in terms of school work, one of the required skills needed in this would be to have good listening skills in order to understand the topic/subject.
Some skills in relation to media productions:
- Communication skills
- Group work skills
- Technical Skills- Using edit suites and camera
- Production skills
- ICT skills e.g. Knowing how to use different types of software's including finding resources and information on Internet, using Microsoft word, PowerPoint etc.