Week 7 Response

We went through each person's alphabet slide show and discussed what needs to be improved or added to make it better before turning in the final product. This included adding a title pade, credits, music, cropping and color correcting. I realized there were a bunch of things I could fix. I needed to make each letter clearer by showing the entire letter.

We also recieved the rubric for the project. At first I thought we were going to make the rubric together and thats what we were actually going to be working on, as opposed to the videos. I liked this idea though, of including the students in the process of deciding what will be graded. This would be an interesting way to increase the students' investment in the project. Whether or not they help in the creation, I think it's good for them to be given the rubric early so they can see what's important in the project.

I was confused several times during this shirt period of time. During the discussion about the alphabet slideshows I though we were going to move around the room in a circle, with one person showing their project, another leading the discussion, and another keeping time. I loved this way of changing who led the crit was a great way of keeping everyone involved and engaged in the discussion. It also gives each person a certain level of responsibility.

Aileen told us how important it is to not take the stance of knowing everything as a teacher. We would very quickly be proved wrong. We should ask what they know and different ways of doing things that they know of. Even in our class there were tons of ways of making our slide show videos. Some of the programs different people used were imovie, iphoto, powerpoint, flicker, slideshare, audiohyjack, preview, rapidshare, and dropbox.

I hadn't heard of dropbox before this class and it is amazingly useful. I have already used it for a bunch of different purposes. Dropbox can have so many uses in the classroom. It can include seeing other students' work, turning in projects, showing examples, references, and anything that the students might need or want to view outside the class room.

Someone brought up the artist Martin Creed. I found a bunch of interesting work by him, but three that are consistent with his moving in steps. I love how this just kind of makes sense. Arranging objects this way is such a natural thing to do, and is done by very young children for play. It makes for interesting art.

This first piece is Work No. 916 "Boxes" (2008)


This is Work No. 928 "Tables" (2008)

And this is Work No. 990 "A curtain opening and closing" (2009)