Week 5 Origination

This week we completed a Quiz on Chapter 4 and then presented our project for exhibition.

Task 1 - Chapter 4 John Maeda, Simplicity

Week 5 – Origination

Question time: answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your own words.

–  Describe the relationship between teaching and learning according to Maeda?
Maeda acknowledges that to be a better teacher it helps to be a learner. It’s easy to be a teacher “you just have to act like you know all the answers”. (Page 34) To be a student you have to write the answers and make sense of them.
Maeda also refers to the phenomenon where taking time to learn often feels like a waste of time.
You learn how you deliver things as a teacher by being a student.
Learning occurs best when you are passionate about it.
As a teacher you have to rework knowledge to its basic form to be able to teach it.
If you keep working the ideas and inspiration will come.

–  Describe the importance of the use of metaphors in learning, why would you use
them, how, give an example?
It is important to use a metaphor in learning as you take a short cut between something people are familiar with to something more complex you are introducing, for example the “desktop metaphor” where files and a trashcan on your desktop represent what you use them for in your office.
A metaphor is another way of representing something, e.g. hit the ground running.

–  BRAIN - what does the acronym stand for – why is it important?
Basics are the beginning.
Repeat yourself often.
Avoid creating desperation.
Inspire with examples.
Never forget to repeat yourself.
It is important because it helps to teach and helps to learn.

–  Describe a situation where you have been required to teach someone a skill.
How could you apply the BRAIN principle to it?
Teaching my children how to get ready for school.
Basics are the beginning. – Teach them to get dressed, do a button, put on their shorts
Repeat yourself often. – Always repeating myself, do’s and don’ts
Avoid creating desperation. – Take small steps so it’s not overwhelming
Inspire with examples. – Inspire by noticing how good it is when we achieve the task
Never forget to repeat yourself. – Always repeat myself.

John Maeda looks at how a teacher can part information to a student, the next phase of being a student is doing the homework. In this video the presenter has some great ideas on how to motivate yourself for study and some practical ideas on how to study.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXNfVs1pPQc

Task 2 - Presentation of concept for exhibition

Group 1: Presented a sketch of their plan for a promotional video for the university, how uni life really is, trying to make it as entertaining as possible.
Started with brainstorming on location and characters.
Idea is 3 students, inspired by a key word to create art, the weather gets hotter, at the end the 3 pieces of art form one then it starts to rain. The End

Group 2: Little Bear, Little Brownie - children's story book (age 5), 10 page spread, A4 size. Will be hand drawn with a background in photoshop. Static presentation. The drawings are done in pencil, the lecturer suggested that this might not be interesting to children, with this in mind I did some research to show different mediums of illustration ...

hand drawn bear with paint and text

http://www.best-childrens-books.com/canadian-illustrators.html

adding a bit of paint can help

http://www.notcot.org/shadeelaine/page/2/

sketch with paint

http://monkeyworks.org/tag/sketch/

What is the mum thinking? Is that really their mum or was she just looking for somewhere to sleep?

http://weheartit.com/eyespy

love these drawings

http://thequietus.com/articles/00893-cinematic-santas?page=8

Group 3: Pop up book, 2 pages about Thailand, 1 bout the journey and 2 about Darwin and CDU. Very impressive example of a pop-up booked shown.

Group 4: Our group presented the helmet cover information we have already blogged.