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Hi creative problem solving, welcome to week four and
this is the DSD three talk to someone different live review, and
I am your instructor Mara and I'm here today with.
>> Jodi Lawrence.
Hi, everyone. >> How you guys doing?
So we've complied a slide of some of the most intriguing and creative, and
interesting projects that we've found this week in your submissions, in the forums,
and on social media.
So we've, compiled a quick slide show, and we'd just like to share them with you and
talk a little bit too about each project so that you can
get our insight into these when you're going on to do your peer evaluations.
So let's get started.
The first one is Entertain a Stranger case.
And this one is a great example of a way to break the ice with a stranger.
And it also provides an opportunity to gauge with others in
meaningful interactions.
This one is one of the top rated in the forums currently so
you can check it out there.
But we think it provides a positive experience for
the other person as a way to break up her routine and
engage with thoughtful questions in a new way and as well as a new media.
In this case drawing and I think she uses the DVD case because it's
uh,play on the entertain a, entertain a stranger case.
Next we have Alex and Sophie, and this one is really amazing and
that inspired a lot of really thought-provoking comments in the forum,
so please check that one out if you haven't seen that already.
This is a planned interview, the interviewer,
he approached the person and arrange an interview with them outside in the cold.
This provides a strong reflection on how we construct quick judgments and
is a good exercise in inspiring others to give time to talk to strangers and
expanding your comfort zone after getting to know new people.
>> Another thing to comment on this form entry is,
once that the students started talking to Alex.
It became this really intimate conversation about how Ale,
Alex used to have an expensive home and business and it was a real eye opener for
this student realizing that he could lose everything at any time.
So a real testament to the value of living in the moment now.
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we're maybe encouraged not to fraternize with our co-workers, but, you know,
who knows who you're working next to 40 to 60 hours a week.
You never know till you sit down and interview them.
Our next entry we wanted to talk about is making friends with the Free Hugs girl.
So our student in this case approached the Free Hugs girl and
they had a great conversation and actually ended up becoming friends on Facebook.
>> Mm-hm.
And again, rather than being the person giving out the free hugs,
this student decided to talk to this person, get their input on what
it might be like to be in this position, where you're having so
much constant physical contact with other people, very freely, and, you know,
it's an inspiring message, what she's doing, and it's an inspiring message
what the student did to approach her and discuss about the work.
>> Our next entry is what we're calling swing in the park with strangers.
This student decided to go to the park and
just kind of kick up some conversation with the people that were there.
And they actually ended up deciding to jump on the swing together and
continue their conversation.
The other person that was there decided to take the photograph, and
not only is it a really cool photograph.
>> Mm-hm. >> But it's kind of a sweet
little proposition that you could just go to the park and
have a good time with people that you don't even know.
>> Right, you never know how open somebody else might be.
>> Hm.
>> Until you talk to them.
This one is, this is one project done in a couple, two different ways.
This is take what you need and a smile poster.
So this is a solid example of talking to someone in
a new way without direct communication.
It's also spreading inspiration to others and giving something in a new way.
And this'll come up later in class, so think about this as an opportunity to sort
of give something without the immediate feedback of the other person.
It is delayed and
anonymous but also spreading positivity which is really always a useful thing.
>> Yeah and somebody else decided to contribute to this one too so
check out the photos.
>> So we found out that many of the entries are,
well many of you have found ways to kind of break the ice or have an interesting
conversation using childhood games that many of you, I'm sure, remember.
In this case, we have this kind of cryptic correspondence.
>> Mm-hm.
>> Where two people that do know each other
are having a conversation where they're having to write backwards.
Flip-flopped so you can actually only read the text in a mirror and so
just kind of a fun little game with two people that already know each other and
a common childhood game >> Mm-hm.
>> Making up codes and decoding messages.
>> Yea, just the act of doing something as a child is again something that will come
up in this class but it is an interesting way to think about things that you used to
do as a child that you don't do anymore and how many of those things
involve communication and language and constructing your own reality.
>> Another example of where, where somebody used a child's game to
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kick up a conversation with strangers was something we found on YouTube and, and
we later found on the posts.
Maria from Colombia, who you may remember from the last slide review.
>> Mm-hm.
>> She decided to use the fortune telling color number game
to approach strangers where she'd have them pick their color and their number.
And inside there was em, an intimate question or a general question.
Anywhere from, you know?
What do you do for a living?
Or what's your favorite color?
So you'll have to check out the video.
It's very entertaining where she's goes around breaks the ice with a number of,
of individuals who are, are willing to play along, which is always fun.
>> Yeah, what do we call these things here, the fortune tellers?
>> The fortune tellers.
>> Always, so neat.
>> A couple other ones that we've pulled up here are a game of dice,
where she made a die with words printed on them as a way to talk to strangers and
approach strangers.
And another one based on a card game is a,
these are good examples of using games as an ice breaker.
Here's another one from the forums that was initially posed as an a question,
that you guys did a really good job of discussing this as an idea and,
but he had the idea to do a message in the bottle,
complete with a list of questions in English and
French, as well as contact information and a Facebook page in case somebody finds it.
This one is a different interpretation of the assignment based on the idea that
creativity goes into construction of project that is left up to
a correspondence based on chance and time and waiting until someone responds.
Ideas like this are inspiring and
expanding nostalgia and a more positive outlook on stranger interaction, and
putting your faith out in the goodness of other people.
Another format of interacting with people anonymously is the secret exchange.
So this student decided to explore the capabilities of emotional interaction and
develop connections with anonymous people.
So she constructed a talk experiment at a coffee house where
people leave a secret in a jar in exchange for someone else's secret.
This is a, an idea that people open themselves up to vulnerability in
a creative way and hopefully is an inspiring, encouraging message for
others that we all have secrets, and we have an ability to connect with
others based on this if we are a little bit more open in who we choose to talk to.
So as many of you know, because you've heard us mention it, we are on
Facebook and Instagram, and we are out there daily looking for your entries.
>> Mm-hm.
>> So here is an example of one that we recently found and
definitely an example of how you can have a lot of fun with these assignments.
In this case, we have a student that is playing rock paper
scissors with a rock and, ha ha ha, the rock says, I won.
So here's a few more selections from the Facebook and
Instagram page and we're also watching YouTube for any tags with DSD or CBS_MOOC.
And we are trying to put all the YouTube videos together in one single channel so
do some searches for that.
And we'd also like to mention a quick reminder to those while we
are really enjoying seeing you, so many of you engage in the discussion process of
both your projects and critiquing.
We'd just like to mention we do put a few tips regarding peer
evaluations in the announcements page.
Please remember to check back on those periodically as we
do often mention some helpful tips and reminders on the announcements page.
And you will be able to find links to some of the forums and
social media there as well.
One thing that we have noticed coming up too is that, it's more about the limits
that you impose yourself so one argument might be that these assignments are geared
more toward extroverted people and that's definitely not true.
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You might identify this as saying, well, I want to remain anonymous or
I want to interact with people privately or one on one.
And so that's a confine that you set yourself.
Creativity really does flourish when you set limitations.
And so that's a problem you want to solve.
You solve it in your own way.
Right?
>> Talking to somebody different.
Eating something different.
These are all very simple notions that become complex and
interesting when you ask the question in a different way, like how can I talk to
somebody differently, that it should engage you to think about how you usually,
how you're comfortable talking to people and what you're comfortable eating.
So this is a self challenge.
[LAUGH] Getting outside your comfort zone for the show.
>> Right. Exactly.
So thank for watching our live review.
Please remember to do your evaluations for
next week and get started on the upcoming DSD in week four.