my school blog

This year I started teaching graphic design at the private school here at Shawnigan Lake (Shawnigan Lake School). I'm teaching two classes ~ Juniors and Seniors in the Fine Arts after school program. It's been a steep learning curve but challenging and fun. To help keep the kids in the loop I created a blog where I post their project assignments and some of their finished work.


I have found many of my class project ideas from other graphic design teachers and from reading a ton of material. I have worked to adapt the projects to make them relevant to my kids and to reflect my program but I am eternally grateful for the people who did the initial leg work!

about creativity ~ or, everyone is creative....

What is creativity? 

Dictionary.com defines it like this:
cre·a·tiv·i·ty  [kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh-]  
noun
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 newideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination.
3. the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

In other words....

...turning new and imaginitive ideas into reality or, the process of bringing something new into being.