by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Creativity, education, parenting, problem solving
The cockles of my heart were warmed this week when I read a great article in the Melbourne Weekly Eastern Magazine about the lovely 21 year old Elizabeth Bowtell who recently completed a diploma of design technology at RMIT. It was the second paragraph that made my...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | colouring, drawing, relaxation
Have any of you tried to meditate before? Have you ever tried it with children? It can be quite tricky to achieve as you use borrowed time to convince them to sit still and listen to the CD/or story. I can manage about 5 minutes but after that my mind wanders off on...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | making movies
If you have not yet joined the Edutopia community at Edutopia.org then do yourself a favour and go there right now and jump on board. Recently I came upon this post about how to use video in the classroom. If you have always thought that it is too difficult and...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | Creativity, talking about art
Art is all around us, I’ve said this many times. It is a great exercise to talk to children about the art they see – that does not only mean visits to the gallery – but artwork for sale in shops, sculptures, street art, garden sculptures, art in...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2012 | business thinking, Creativity
Imagine my excitement when I opened the January-February Top 1,000 issue of Australia’s Business Review Weekly to see an article on Australia’s lack lustre innovation quotient. Excitement…Nicky, you may ask, this is not a good article… Well...
