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| WHAT DID WE DO? WHAT'S NEW and CHANGED? | EVIDENCE OF LEARNING |
| Today, we found ourselves closing our work in the idea development stage and beginning the action of producing a tangible product. Our beginning consisted of the six of us finally determining which medium we wanted to pursue in our product. We had narrowed it down to two real choices: the square-shaped 3-D building blocks, or the round Styrofoam balls and toothpicks. We ultimately decided on the latter, as it would allow for a more free-form method of the creative process for participants, and we could more easily incorporate a larger idea into it. The idea began to take shape. Students (and faculty, for that matter; the sculpture is open to everyone!) would choose a "creativity capsule" to add to the sculpture, and the sculpture would grow and grow as our community achieves more and more. The capsules, colored differently to represent various subjects (humanities, math, science, language, athletics, art, and other), would be placed onto the sculpture to represent the creative intersection of all of those subjects. Participants would have the option to write on them (detailing their name/achievement), draw on them, or leave them anonymous. At the end of the day, we had our first set of capsules successfully spray painted to show for our work. Our next step is to bring in materials and finish our research for the gallery walk presentation. Ashley |
We spray painted our Styrofoam balls, or "creativity capsules", as Mikhail dubbed them.
Our early prototype called for many people to decorate the capsules.
This"rejected" idea, the shaped blocks, didn't seem to us as interesting as the rounder alternative.
I made this sketch of our Friday gallery walk presentation plan.
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I would say that another pressing task we have is to solidify our driving question. I feel like we've separated somewhat from the idea of play, while emphasizing creativity and individual accomplishments. I don't think that this direction is necessarily bad, but we should all decide on the purpose of our project. This will help give our collaborative work more focus and ensure that our idea has the impact that we want it to have.
ReplyDeleteMoving forward, our group has to create a new driving question and develop a list of benefits to having a community sculpture. Also, we are now starting to plan out the presentation part of the project and each member has been assigned to bring in certain props and materials for the poster board.
ReplyDeleteI think that moving forward, another important thing for us to do is to test out our product. We have the basic materials, but I think that it would help to put out the materials and see what people do with them. That would show us the desirability of the interactive sculpture.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Tim said. Our driving question should be solidified as soon as possible. However I’m also happy and glad to see our sculpture take shape. The prototype is on route to success. Now all we need to do is finalize and create our artifacts and presentations.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rory and think that we need to get it out there and test it
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