Creativity Resources

Torrance Library Archives - Dr. Torrance's vast collection of materials is the largest collection in the world offering information on gifted, creative, and future studies. The collection is intended to provide for the continuation of research begun by Dr. Torrance as well as provide information needed to stimulate new research in gifted, creative, and future studies.

Presentations on Creativity - by Bonnie Cramond

Championing Creativity – MS PowerPoint format
Cartooning – MS PowerPoint format
Importance of Creativity – MS PowerPoint format
10.5 Strategies – MS PowerPoint format or .PDF format
TTCT Presentation – MS Powerpoint (2.54 MB)

E. Paul Torrance Lecture Series

E. Paul Torrance Spring 2008 Lecture (Website)
C. June Maker, Professor of Special Education, The University of Arizona and Director of the DISCOVER Project

E. Paul Torrance Spring 2007 Lecture (Podcast)
Joseph S. Renzulli, Director, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
Part 1 & Part 2 Podcast

E. Paul Torrance Spring 2006 Lecture (Podcast)
Robert Alan Black, Creativity Consultant

E. Paul Torrance Spring 2006 Lecture (Podcast)
Mark Runco
California State University, Fullerton

E. Paul Torrance Spring 2005 Lecture (Podcast)
Dean Keith Simonton
Download Dean Keith Simonton's Powerpoint Presentation (as a Powerpoint file, as a PDF file)
Professor, University of California, Davis

Activities from the 2007 GAGC Creativity Celebration: A Bizarre Bazaar

Six Thinking Caps: a creativity strategy based on DeBono's Six Thinking Hats by Lisa Clark Link for how to make a very simple newspaper hat.

DIY (Design It Yourself) FUN BOARD by Daehyun Kim

Topic Toss: Facilitating Student Research Ideas by Todd MacLeod

Synectics: “Making the strange familiar” by Laura Rice

Creativity and Bipolarity by Elizabeth Fairweather (Medication Chart)

Creative Categorizing by Elizabeth Fairweather (Recording Sheet )

A Strategy for Creativity Morning: Rescue Godzilla by En-ling Chiao
(Poster 1.1 Interactive Brochure, Poster 1.2 Creative Community Care, Poster 1.3 I WANT YOU)

A Strategy for Incorporating Creativity with Writing Across the Curriculum Meg Whitley

General Creativity

Creativity at Work
Creativity for Life
Creativity Techniques
Creativity Tools
Creativity Workshops
Invention Convention
Robert Alan Black's Creativity Challenges

Creativity Organizations

American Creativity Association
National Association for Gifted Children
Creativity Explored
Creative Education Foundation

Creativity and Academics

Future Problem Solving Program
Climate for Innovation
ThinkQuest
Odyssey of the Mind

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-E. Paul Torrance