Thursday, April 4, 2013

My experience with " Spark your Creativity" webinar


Two weeks ago, in our "Integrating Technology into education" course, the teacher asked us to attend a webinar in pairs. I have to acknowledge that, at the first glance, the term was unfamiliar to me and I have no experience in attending online seminar. After delving into the experience, I felt how was amazing to encounter our ignorance in some issues, and to dive into the experience and taste its outcomes. Talking about the webinar that was titled " Spark your Creativity" which is organized and performed by Cindy Handler and Noah Mendelevitch, these two speakers were teachers and parents who were pleased to present this webinar to the audience that was from different countries such as USA, India, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, Amsterdam, South Africa, and so forth, furthermore, they were occupying different positions, such as educators, artists, business leaders, parents and counselors. But what differ the webinar from the seminar is that in the latter, u can handle a pen and paper and write your notes and some of us may ask questions at the end of it, while, on the other hand, in the webinar, you are asked some questions that you have the choice to answer it, in addition, you can ask questions, share your opinion with others by chatting them , and you can also receive their answers and their comments as well as the ones of the speakers. "Sparking Creativity" talks about how to thrive to be creative in our life, how to face our problems that we encounter on daily basis, and how to solve it in new ways. And in order to be Creative we have to face the “Creativity Killers" which are the Fear, the Holding back, the Judgment, and the Resistance to change and substitute them by the Inspiration, Intuition, Imagination and Innovation. I would like to note that I faced a problem with the video because of the low bandwidth in our country, but i was likely to read the slides as well as the comments of the audience. But the best issue is that they send us the video later on, so I had the opportunity to see it and save it in my library. Finally, I would like to encourage who have never been the opportunity to attend webinars to encounter their fear and try it, because it is a very interesting experience to up to date your knowledge without being worry about the distance and the time.


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