Task of Lesson 7

Situation / Problem
To create a  "SCARY IMAGES" or "OBJECT" that will instill fear among people through out the ages.
Random Word - Kitten .

Sketches of the idea.

Final output.

The picture above show the final work of my idea. Obviously, there is a box shown, inside the box there is a trap, this idea is come from the sharp teeth of the kitten. If one open the box without knowledge or attention, one may get trap when one's hand or head stretch into the box. The sharp teeth in the box may get one injured and even can take away their life. As a conclude, I totally believe that this invention will instill fear among people through out the ages.

Lesson 7 Random Word / Image Association

Random Association is an idea generation method which allows students to systematically generate new ideas through a fixed formula. The whole premise of Random Association is to use a Random Word to provoke a reaction from the brain.

When to use it ???

Use it to stimulate open and divergent thinking and seek creative new ideas.

Use it to re-ignite creative thinking when you are running out of ideas.

Use it to get people out of a rut when their thinking is still rather conventional.

How to use it ???

1. Find a random word

Find a random word that will be used as a stimulus for new ideas. You can do this in a number of ways, including:

• Look around you. What can you see? Can you see any words? What about things? What else is happening?
• Open a book at a random page. Run your finger around the page and stop at a random point. Look for a suitable word near your finger.
• Ask the people you are with to give you a random word.
• Select a word from a prepared list of evocative words (fire, child, brick, sausage, etc.)

Good random words are (a) evocative and (b) nothing to do with the problem being considered. Ambiguity also helps. Nouns are usually best, but verbs and adjectives can also be used effectively.

2. Find associations

Think about other things about which the word reminds you. Follow associations to see where they go. Think openly: associations can be vague and tenuous (this is creativity, not an exam!).

When working with a group of people, you can write these down on a flipchart as people call them out. It can be useful (but not necessary) to leave a space after each associate for use in stage 3.

3. Use the associations to create new ideas

Now create new ideas by linking any of the associations with your problem. Again, the linkage can be as vague as you like: what you want is ideas!

Write the ideas either next to their associations from step 2 or on a separate page.

If other people give ideas that trigger further ideas from you, then you can go off down that route to see where it goes.

As a variant, you can do stages 2 and 3 together, finding an association and an immediate idea from this.

How it works ???

Random Words works in particular by making you go elsewhere for ideas, and hence pushes you out of your current thinking rut. It uses the principle of forced association to make you think in new ways and create very different ideas.

Task of Lesson 5&6 Part C

C. How merges go wrong.
Create two impossible animals then explain.

As we know, rooster play an important character in a farm of a farmer. They help farmers to look after their crops and not to let the crops eaten by other animals or insects. Since dinosaur is consider as a fierce animal in the world although it had extinct, but it can also be a helper for human being like a rooster. So, I would like to create a combination of a dinosaur and a rooster. The reason why I want to create a combination like this is because as we know dinosaur has a huge size of body but it may harm human life. Therefore, I attempt to join the head of rooster, and to let the rooster to have a bigger size of body. So that, it may help the farmer to take more good care of their crops.

I have created an another impossible animal by combining a tame and a fierce animal that is a cat and a tiger which live away from us in the jungle. Obviously, we cannot get closer to tiger in our daily life, or even have a look on it, this was truly impossible to make it happen. On the other hand, many of the peoples love cat and made them as their own pet. So, I decided to create an animal that have the character of tiger on it, but not to made it too fierce as long as human being may have the opportunity to get closer with it, and remaining the body size of a cat. As an addition, tiger and cat are also consider from the same family.Therefore, anyone of us can get closer to it easily and not to harm us if such animal alive in realistic.

Task of Lesson 5&6 Part B

B. Analogy.
Create a passage / writing that describe the concept of " Love ".

Love is passion,

Love is pungent,

as spicy as chili

as we love.

Love is warm,

Love is silly,

as stupid as you

like eating the chili that make us hot.

Create a passage / writing that describe the concept of " Man or Woman ".

A guy need support from girl

and a girl need concern from guy

both need each other

as same as the mortar and pestle

cannot lose one another

Create a passage / writing that describe the concept of " Life ".

Life is like a candle

very short and brief

Life is like a candle

challenge ourselves to battle

Life is like a candle

full of meaning and memorable

Life is like a candle

illuminate us to continue our journey...

Task of Lesson 5&6 Part A

A. Choose three favourite numbers from the words below :

I choose 02, 38 and 89.

Then, we are asked to list out the words that we chose from the numbers we preferred.

02 = Fly Rock
38 = Ice Wood
89 = Oil Rain

Make a sentence from the words.

Fly Rock = The fly is sleeping on the rock.
Ice Wood = The ice cube is melting under the wood.
Oil Rain = The oil drops splash around with the rain.

Draw a picture to represent the sentences that had made.

Fly Rock

Ice Wood

Oil Rain

Draw another picture of the combination of both words that chosen.

Flyrock

Icewood

Oilrain

Lesson 5 & 6 Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variables, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two subjects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually 'turning' something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa.

Definition : A placing or being placed in namess or contiguity, or side by side; as a juxtaposition of words

Example :

                                               Ain- (cute)                                  

The act of juxtaposing is to place two objects or word next to each other. When 2 things put side by side, your brain try to figure what is the relationship between these two...

When automatically happen is that there is transference of meaning. Usually from something familiar to something less familiar. ( What is the relationship ? or the meaning o similarities ? )

CONFLICT between LEFT BRAIN and RIGHT BRAIN happens...

1. Analogy 

Analogy is a type of word problem that often appears on standardized tests. It is made up of two word pairs. An analogy is a comparison between different items usually with the idea of explaining something unknown by something known. Analogies provide insight. They can suggest that some how similarities exist between things that might seem to have nothing in common.

Logical Analogies

Seek similarities between things that are different but have some trait in common. Example : A duck to an amphibious boat, or the branch system of a tree to the vascular system of the human body. A bird can be compared to an airplane because both can move on air. The construction workers are hardworking like ants. Something like that.

Affective Analogies

Are emotional similarities, Example: A pretty girl is like a flower or someone evil is a snake or a skunk.  A timid person is a mouse. The girl is playful like monkey.

2. Metaphor

A metaphor is the expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept, where there is some similarity or correlation between the two. Comparison that are obvious are not consider metaphor.Example : Your insincere apology just added fuel to the fire. After the argument, Dave was smoldering for days. That kindled my ire. Boy, am I burned up!

3. Simile

A simile is indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than". Even though similes and metaphors are both forms of comparison, similes indirectly compare the two ideas and allow them to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, whereas metaphors compare two things directly. Example : My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain. H was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Task : Difference way to keep on mind~

A picture of me with my characteristics ：

Mortar & Pestle

A mortar and pestle is a tool used to crush, grind, and mix solid substances (trituration). The pestle is a heavy bat-shaped object, the end of which is used for crushing and grinding. The mortar is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, marble, clay, or stone. The substance to be ground is placed in the mortar and ground, crushed or mixed with the pestle.

It can be represent as~

1) $$$

This image shown that a beggar singing and beg for money $$$, the mortar represent the bowl that to fill money and the pestle is to make sound and knock on the mortar to attract peoples.

2) Eat

A very obvious image, the person in this picture show that he is eating an ice-cream. The mortar use to fill ice-cream and the pestle represent the spoon is to eat the ice-cream inside the mortar~

3) Heaven

This image show an angel wearing a mortar as a safety step like wearing a helmet to protect itself when flying, while the pestle it holding is represent the magic stick that often bring by an angel along them.

Thats all. A very creative way to help us remember something. I think these idea can be carry out in my daily life to help me keep in memory~^^

Lesson 3 & 4 Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping, introduced by Tony Buzan is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain & widely in used taking notes, research for generating new ideas. A creative Mind Map is able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.

Why do Mind Mapping ??? For what ???

A mind map is often created around a single word or text, placed in the center, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added.

Mind map have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations, including notetaking, brainstorming (wherein ideas are inserted into the map radially around the center node, without the implicit prioritization that comes from hierarchy or sequential arrangements, and wherein grouping and organizing is reserved for later stages), summarizing, revising, and general clarifying of thoughts. One could listen to a lecture, for example, and take down notes using mind maps for the most important points or keywords. One can also use mind maps as a mnemonic technique or to sort out a complicated idea. Mind maps are also promoted as a way to collaborate in color pen creativity sessions.

Mind maps can be used for:

• problem solving
• outline or framework design
• anonymous collaboration
• marriage of words and visuals
• individual expression of creativity
• condensing material into a concise and memorable format
• team building or synergy creating activity
• enhancing work morale

Despite these direct use cases, data retrieved from mind maps can be used to enhance several other applications, for instance expert search systems, search engines and search and tag query recommender. To do so, mind maps can be analysed with classic methods of information retrieval to classify a mind map's author or documents that are linked from within the mind map.

Mindmap can be drawn by hand, either as "rough notes" during a lecture or meeting, for example, or can be more sophisticated in quality. An example of a rough mind map is illustrated. There are also a number of software packages available for producing mind maps.

How to do ?

Mind mapping (or concept mapping) involves writing down a central idea and thinking up new and related ideas which radiate out from the center. By focusing on key ideas written down in your own words, and then looking for branches out and connections between the ideas, you are mapping knowledge in a manner which will help you understand and remember new information.

Method Creative Thinking : Logical and Associated mind map Technique.

1) Logical Mind Map

The Logical Mind Map is directly connected to stereotypes. The Logical Mind Map comprises of solely stereotype words. Which means that every word or image that is put within the mind map is directly related to the central subject through its links.

2) Associated Mind Map

Using an associated mind map are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection.

3) Logical Mind Maps & Stereotypes

Before beginning a Logical Mind Map, we have to understand what a stereotype is.

Definition of Stereotype.

Stereotypes are generalizations, or assumptions, that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image (often wrong) about what people in that group are like. For example, one study of stereotypes revealed that Americans are generally considered to be friendly, generous, and tolerant, but also arrogant, impatient, and domineering. Asians, on the other hand, were expected to be shrewd and alert, but reserved. Clearly, not all Americans are friendly and generous; and not all Asians are shrewd. If you assume you know what a person is like, and don't look at each person as an individual, you are likely to make errors in your estimates of a person's character.

In conflicts, people tend to develop overly-negative images of the other side. The opponent is expected to be aggressive, self-serving, and deceitful, for example, while people view themselves in completely positive ways. These stereotypes tend to be self-perpetuating. If one side assumes the other side is deceitful and aggressive, they will tend to respond in a similar way. The opponent will then develop a similar image of the first party, and the negative stereotypes will be confirmed. They may be grow worse, as communication is shut down and escalation heightens emotions and tension.

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype

                 http://www.sociologicaljournalist.com/home/2010/07/what-is-stereotype/

Rules of Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan.

1) Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colours.

2) Use images, symbols, codes and dimensions throughout your Mind Map.

3) Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.

4) Each word or image must be alone and sitting on its own line.

5) The lines must be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and flowing, becoming thinner as they radiate out from the center.

6) Make the lines the same length as the word or the image.

7) Use colors - your own code - throughout the Mind Map.

8) Develop your own personal style of Mind Mapping.

9) Use emphasis and show associations in your Mind Map.

10) Keep the Mind Map clear by using radical hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches.

Benefit of Logical Mind-mapping Techniques.

• Learning - Reduce those 'tons of work'. Feel good about study, revision and exams. Have confidence in your learning abilities.
• Overviewing - See the whole picture, the global view, at once. Understand the links and connections.
• Concentrating - Focus on the task for better results. Using all of your cortical skills attracts your attention.
• Memorizing - 
  Easy recall. 'See' the information in your mind's eye.
• Organizing - 
  Be on top of all of the details for parties, holidays, projects or any other subject.
• Presenting - Speeches are clear, relaxed and alive. You can be at your best.
• Communicating - In all forms with clarity and conciseness.
• Planning - Orchestrate all details and aspects ? from beginning to end ? on one piece of paper.
• Meetings - From planning to agenda, to chairing, to taking the minutes the jobs are completed with speed and efficiency.
• Training - From preparation to presentation they make the job easier and much faster.
• Thinking -  Having a method to analyze thoughts ? almost a way-station' for them.
• Negotiating - All the issues, your position and maneuverability in one sheet.
• Brainstorming - Random thoughts are generated and appropriately assessed in real time.

Here is a video : Great tool for idea mapping

Hope you guys enjoy~^^

Who is the Microsoft founders ???

Bill Gates 

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

Paul Allen

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American industrialist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world with a personal wealth of US$12.7 billion as of 2010. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which is his private asset management company, and is chairman of Charter Communications. Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio which includes stakes in Diego, Kiha Software, real estate holdings, and more than 40 other technology, media, and content companies. Allen also owns three professional sports teams: the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the Seattle Sounders FC franchise (which began playing in the 2009 season) in Major League Soccer (MLS).

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft would come to dominate other markets as well, notably the office suite market with Microsoft Office. Primarily in the 1990s, critics contend the company used monopolistics business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in the use of its software, and used misrepresentative marketing tactics; both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission found the company in violation of antitrust laws. Known for its interviewing process with obscure questions, various studies and ratings were generally favorable to Microsoft's diversity within the company as well as its overall environmental impact with the exception of the electronics portion of the business.

Who is the Google Founders ???

Larry Page

Larry Page is the co-founder of Google and is currently the President of Products of for Google Inc.

Lawrence E. Page was born in 1973 in Lansing, Michigan to parents Carl Vincent Page, who is a professor of computer science at Michigan University and Gloria Page, who is a computer programming teacher at Michigan University. With his parents guidance from the beginning, Page was destined to be successful in the IT industry in one way or another.

After graduating from East Lansing High School he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and went on to study a Masters degree at Stanford University. While studying at Stanford University, Page was introduced to Sergey Brin. The two did not start out as friends, seeming to disagree on most topics of conversation, but eventually came across a subject that had been a great interest to them both. That topic was Retrieving information from large data sets. The pair later wrote what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper called "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". The paper has since become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University. 

Soon after they started working on a project that later became the Google search engine. After trying to sell the idea failed, they wrote up a business plan and brought in a total initial investment of almost $1 million to start their own company. In September 1998 Google Inc opened in Menlo Park, California. The company grew so quickly and gained so many employees’ a few office relocations were made due to lack of space, with Google Inc finally settled in its current place at Mountain View, California. Over the next few years headed by Larry and Sergey Google made many innovations and added to its list of products and employee’s (nearly 5000 by 2006). By October 2004 Google announced their first quarterly results as a public offered company, with record revenues of $805.9 million. As of 2005 Page has been estimated to be worth US$12 billion and is sixteenth in Forbes 400 list and making him the 27th richest person in the world. 

In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) for the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with Co-Founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_page
                  http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/larry-page/index.htm




Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, born August 21, 1973 is a Russian American computer scientist and industrialist who, along with Larry Page is best known as the co-founder of Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Brin immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he later befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage. The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information "universally accessible and useful" and "Don't be evil".

Reference : http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/sergey-brin/index.htm

History of Google~

Everyone knows the name Google. Whether young or old, computer smart or not this name will pop up in
any conversation about computers. Google has created some very impressive milestones of its time and
continues to grow rapidly every day.  It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in Stanford. Larry
was 22 and a graduate of University of Michigan was there considering attending the school. And low and
behold Sergey, who was 21, was there to show him around. Talk about a match made in heaven!
However,  according to some they disagreed on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996,
now firm friends and both of them computer science grad students, began developing a search engine
called BackRub. This search engine had operated on Stanford servers for just a little over a year when it
started taking up to much bandwidth to suite Stanford. So they decided to switch servers and renamed the
search engine in 1997, calling it Google. The name comes from a mathematical term for the number 1
followed by 100 zero’s. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount
of information on the web.

Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

                  http://www.webhostingreport.com/learn/google.html

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