Top 10 NDCE Ideas

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10) Television ad

Teaching is just like storytelling. Our lessons constantly tell a story, but to get to the final product teachers must edit and rewrite and reteach. If it doesn’t work, we complete the process all over again. Teachers are writers and actors trying to tell the perfect story to our student audience.

9) Photography

There is a deeper thought process behind taking the perfect picture. Photographers need to decide what is important; the angle to capture the image, what to focus on, and what to blur out. Details are important.

8) Architecture: Classroom setup

The layout of a classroom can determine if highly effective teaching and learning can take place or at least make it easier or more difficult. Changing the layout of a room more often can also snag a student’s attention and eliminate classroom monotony

7) Film Making

I’m definitely not a film maker, but I enjoyed the challenge of making a short film and seeing if I could make it compelling to others. I learned that it’s not necessarily the forest that is the most compelling, but the trees themselves. I wanted to make something based on the emotion I wanted to viewer to feel. Once I figured that out I knew what to do.

5) Architecture: Tale of Two Retail Spaces

The way a room or space is designed can have a huge impact on the people visiting that area. Architecture plays a huge role in the ambience and tone within a space. Attention to detail is very important; in the classroom and the school.

4) Fashion

The fashion module was one of the most fun to me. In education, we are working hard to get the students to take a risk by trying new things. This is the same idea in fashion; people try things on in hope to find something that suits them best.

3) Music: Hook

Not every lesson will be interesting to every single student, but as a teacher it is important to remember that there are multiple ways to maintain students' interest or at least their attention by using different methods of presenting information. Looking deeper into the idea of a “hook” in music helped me to understand more deeply what captures our attention.

2) Work of Art

The Work of Art project really forced me to think creatively. This is where you really have to marry the concepts of the nature and design of a compelling experience. This project definitely was the perfect capstone to the course. I relied on the things that I had learned from previous modules to make this one a success.

1) Compelling

I’ve definitely learned that everyone has a different idea of what is compelling to them. Diversity of opinion is what makes it so special. Everyone has the opportunity to appreciate something and see the compelling nature in something that others may not see. I’ve also learned that is important to understand what makes something compelling and why. It is important in education to create lessons that are compelling to students.

Imaginative Bridges: Fashion and Teaching

The first thing that I picked up on while watching an episode of "What Not To Wear,"was that that in order for any of the things that Stacy and Clinton had in mind to become successful, the person in question must have confidence enough in themselves to change not only the outside, but the inside as well. I think this is a common theme within education. I notice that many of my students are not willing to take risks in relation to the projects we are completing in class. They are not willing to take risks because they are fearful of failure. They don't have the confidence in themselves to succeed. According to Wong and Henrikson (2008) "Indeed, the elements of style – originality, flair, and confidence – seem to describe equally well the goals of both fashion and education."

Not only are students fearful of failure, but how do we get students to become intrinsically motivated to learn? Teaching really is similar to selling a product. How do we get our students to purchase that product? The same rings true for the WNTW show. Stacy and Clinton are, in a way, selling an idea to the subject of the show. How do they get this person to become internally motivated to change? I think that a partial answer to this is confidence. Confidence gives all people the strength to try new things, take risks, and try again if need be; the important part is that they try.

Music Project Analysis