Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
A wonderful day for photos
Today we got out and took all of the photos for our project. It went way better than any of us could have expected. Everyone chipped in and things went very smoothly. After we finished the shooting, Andrea took the photos home and did some digital touch-ups on the photos, then sent them to each of the group members to do our things with them. I took them and added them all to the web site, and the others went through our lists and emailed the photos along with a thank you and a link to our website and survey. Now all that's left to do is to write our paper.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Class review; March 9th
The "You Are Beautiful" project is well under way. We met in groups again today and discussed details of the project. Solidified the dates, clearly stated our objective (raise awareness about self esteem issues around body image and boost confidence by engaging people in photo shoots with positive enforcement in the form of a sign with the slogan "you are beautiful" and supported with the website). I worked all week on the web site and got it up and running with all of the information from the group I have received to date inserted.
http://youarebeautiful.x10.mx/
The class discussion today was centered around Buddhist truths. I do not have issue with the truths, I do however, think there are ethical problems with bringing religion into the classroom and disguising it as a discussion related to a larger theme. For this reason, I will not include details of these discussions in this journal.
http://youarebeautiful.x10.mx/
The class discussion today was centered around Buddhist truths. I do not have issue with the truths, I do however, think there are ethical problems with bringing religion into the classroom and disguising it as a discussion related to a larger theme. For this reason, I will not include details of these discussions in this journal.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Class review; March 2nd
Today began with an eco-art project. Went out, collected leaves and branches, returned to the room and wrote positive messages on the leaves with markers, painted the branches, and put it all outside for passers by to take notice.
Objectives for this could be to raise awareness, waste reduction, use found/natural materials, inspire or create good feelings. The objectives of a project should reflect the problem. the problem in this case could be deforestation, pollution or waste, etc
we received our mask and photograph grades today, I was given the opportunity to submit my full paper because I had not received Andrea's email in time, and she did not receive my email either. It was sent tonight.
For the rest of the class we worked on our group projects. Our group made the signs, delegated tasks, and I designed the layout and formatting for the web-site that will serve both as a component of our pubic art, as well as our presentation material.
Marcie: Advertisement, signs
Andrea: Release/permission/information form, "We Are Beautiful" "I Am Beautiful" signs
David: Questionnaire
Christina: Website content; "About Us & the Project", collection of resources relating to positive body image
Lance: Web site planning, construction
All: carrying out project on days planned, resource collection
We were also given the criteria for the paper that is to accompany the project and presentation. It is to include the following (direct from board)
-Creativity
-Activity
-Problem
-Objectives
-Materials
- Process and Reflection (Personal and Team) relating to Image Development (What was good, bad, would you change?)
-Presentation
-as for my personal work today, I designed a layout for the web site that will consist of a small number of pages (likely only 4-6) with a simple layout. However, because it requires some features that I am currently unfamiliar with using in web-site construction, it will require a fair amount of time to build as I need to learn how to use and/or create the features we want. I also need to find some way of taking our survey information and creating some way of making sense of all the collected data.
This is going to be a long project with countless hours spent off the streets and out of the public to complete; but I'm still looking forward to it. I think it will be a lot of fun. I am slightly worried about not being able to make the site work the way that is currently planned, but everything else should go smoothly as we work well together as a group.
Objectives for this could be to raise awareness, waste reduction, use found/natural materials, inspire or create good feelings. The objectives of a project should reflect the problem. the problem in this case could be deforestation, pollution or waste, etc
we received our mask and photograph grades today, I was given the opportunity to submit my full paper because I had not received Andrea's email in time, and she did not receive my email either. It was sent tonight.
For the rest of the class we worked on our group projects. Our group made the signs, delegated tasks, and I designed the layout and formatting for the web-site that will serve both as a component of our pubic art, as well as our presentation material.
Marcie: Advertisement, signs
Andrea: Release/permission/information form, "We Are Beautiful" "I Am Beautiful" signs
David: Questionnaire
Christina: Website content; "About Us & the Project", collection of resources relating to positive body image
Lance: Web site planning, construction
All: carrying out project on days planned, resource collection
We were also given the criteria for the paper that is to accompany the project and presentation. It is to include the following (direct from board)
-Creativity
-Activity
-Problem
-Objectives
-Materials
- Process and Reflection (Personal and Team) relating to Image Development (What was good, bad, would you change?)
-Presentation
-as for my personal work today, I designed a layout for the web site that will consist of a small number of pages (likely only 4-6) with a simple layout. However, because it requires some features that I am currently unfamiliar with using in web-site construction, it will require a fair amount of time to build as I need to learn how to use and/or create the features we want. I also need to find some way of taking our survey information and creating some way of making sense of all the collected data.
This is going to be a long project with countless hours spent off the streets and out of the public to complete; but I'm still looking forward to it. I think it will be a lot of fun. I am slightly worried about not being able to make the site work the way that is currently planned, but everything else should go smoothly as we work well together as a group.
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