Circumrelator

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The Creative Catalyst, a Thinking Machine What is it? It's an imaginative tool, based on Ramon Llull's Ars combinatorial, which helps students stimulate and accelerate creative processes related to the composition of stories, poems, and other literary genres. It also becomes a guide that serves as a resource when searching for ideas and creative material. Why is it useful? To make creative writing a positive experience. Writing literature becomes a game of chance and associations from which to create a literary text ceases to be a stressful activity for beginners - the emptiness of the blank page, writing as a duty, writing from an emotional distance, etc. - to become a game inspired by the evocative and suggestive power of words for each person. This tool is based on a creative methodology that uses the evocative power of words, random play, and suggestive associations that the Ars combinatorial provides. With this tool, students get a set of beautiful and evocative expressions, phrases, or verses that they will improve and shape into a literary and artistic composition. More information: http://agora.xtec.cat/cesire/portada/el-circumrelator-una-maquina-de-pensar-i-crear/ Students (age 12 to 16) will have to produce a creative text using a circumrelator (which they will have to design and then build using a 3D printer) that will help them write literary texts. This activity promotes writing, creativity, and interdisciplinarity. The areas involved are language, technology, and arts. Teacher's guide: http://bit.ly/2nyjpvX Instructions to create a poem ("Llull" style): http://bit.ly/2nPk4Xb Characters and texts: http://bit.ly/2ny6WbG Texts from "Book of Beasts": http://bit.ly/2nPqohm Materials Needed Circumrelator templates: http://bit.ly/2n4YfTo Duration of Lesson 15 h (6 h Language + 6 h Technology + 3 h Arts) Preparation Designs in Tinkercad Dau (Dice): https://www.tinkercad.com/things/f7g8031zvcH-v1circumrelatordau/ Medalles (Medals): https://www.tinkercad.com/things/8VtaLThnZiN-v1circumrelatormedalles Base (Base): https://www.tinkercad.com/things/aDunxtEQQ4N-v1circumrelatorbase Cercle 1 (Circle 1): https://www.tinkercad.com/things/j0sObCaTaDN-v1circumrelator1 Cercle 3 (Circle 3): https://www.tinkercad.com/things/hb9fv58ywq3-v1circumrelator3/