http://edexcelcreativenewmedia.ning.com/profiles/blogs/making-the-creative-cycle-work

Creative cycle skills:

Each of the sections of the creative cycle demands a set of particular skills:

Observation:

• Sketching
• Selecting relevant primary and secondary sources
• Writing
• Mind-mapping
• Making links
• Separating information
• Discussion

Analysis:

• Research and inquiry
• Writing
• Making connections to artists and designers
• Making links to non-art and wider cultural information and media
• Contextualisation
• Comparing and contrasting
• Breaking down art and design into components
• Assessing the relevance and potential of media

Development:

• Time management
• Assessing the relevance and potential of media
• Production, operation and manipulation skills
• Creative problem solving
• Risk taking

Personal response:

• Synthesis
• Differentiation
• Presentation / delivery
• Refinement
• Innovation

Evaluation:

• Questioning
• Reflection
• Setting evaluative criteria
• Having an overview
• Listening / taking on feedback
• Writing and communication

Creative Design (as described by Mitch Resnick – MIT Media Lab and others)

• IMAGINE
• CREATE
• PLAY
• SHARE
• REFLECT
• IMAGINE, etc., etc., etc. …..