8 marketing lessons from Norman Rockwell’s art and advertising

8 marketing lessons from Norman Rockwell’s art and advertising

The article referenced above is wonderful for learning about marketing through art. Add to that, the lesson plan here from educationcloset.com and you've got a great art lesson that incorporates writing, media education and art.

Teaching Persuasive Writing through Art

The Clean-Up Map

The Clean-Up Map

This isn't exactly Media Asset Creation, but I love the idea for clean-up time.

Week 4, Reading – Grateful to Contribute

I loved reading The Art of Possibility. It has given me opportunity to reflect on life at an ideal time, a time of change. As an artist, I have always felt that change was correct, even when I was younger and new places and people frightened me. I embraced change in my life. As I look back, I can even say that I was compelled to change, to move, to meet new people and do new things.

Now, I look forward. I’m very close now to receiving a new master’s degree, my second. People ask me, will you make more money? Does it get you a raise? No. It doesn’t. Then why? It enriches my life. I hope that I can use the skills, knowledge and experience that I now have to enrich the lives of others. This book presents that opportunity beautifully: the opportunity to contribute, to create the stage of my life, to appreciate the beauty of it. I will read it again and certainly recommend it to others.

Image is of some of my wonderful students working on their art projects.

Week 4, Publishing - Decided Where to Submit

Okay, I decided that I would write an article for Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association. I’m a member of NAEA and have been for a long time. The public for the journal is the public that I would want to reach, art educators. The style is APA. This is quoted in the author guidelines:

What writing style should authors use?

Write in a precise and straightforward manner. Avoid passive voice (for example, instead of “it was found” use “we found”). Do not include an abstract. A conversational tone is conducive for reading. Consider engaging the reader with a question or an anecdote in your opening paragraph.

I felt like that was a more natural way for me to write. Whew! Nervous, but ready, I guess.

Image above is of the description of the magazine on the NAEA website

Week 4, Creative Ways to Use Your Elmo TT 02

I liked this video. Lots of art teachers have ELMOs. All of the art teachers in my school district have them. This teacher introduces some ideas that I hadn't thought of.

Week 4, Response to Donita Massing

Donita Massing wrote regarding her AR Project:

I actually started writing an AR summary back in April before my second cycle of research was completed. The moment seized me and I felt like writing it down. The moment I'm referring to was a simultaneous success and defeating incident.
I chose to revel in the success! Namely that one of the students in my lab that was previously unmotivated by anything in the course suddenly became engrossed in the current project. He mostly stayed in that level of motivation and finished out the year by winning our portfolio show!

He invited me to his graduation celebration, which I am planning to attend. How could I miss it? The purpose of my research has really been about finding some way to motivate the unreachable ones. I realized that it varies so much for each person that it is difficult to find a single magic key to motivation. Through my data, I determined that the best course of action with regards to motivation was to address the multiple intelligences with every lesson (as much as possible.) As a result, I basically recreated my entire course. I have learned so much about effective teaching practices that I'm surprised that students learned anything before I started this AR project!

I have already posted my AR summary page, but I'm continually updating it and revising so that it best expresses the research. I found that it's difficult to put all of the experiences in writing! I'll be the first to admit that I didn't particularly care for the AR blog assignments we were given in each course, but now I am SO thankful for them. I had forgotten so much about the process that re-reading my posts was essential to realizing the results of the AR!

Kerry Marquis wrote:

Donita, I’m so glad that you are reveling in your success and the fact that you have recreated your course means that you have taken it to a totally new high as I’m sure you were an outstanding teacher before.

Your project being about finding a way to motivate your unreachable students parallels mine of reaching those teachers yet to incorporate technology into their teaching. And your realization that each is different also parallels my project. In mine, I actually surveyed to find what teachers would and would not do with technology in their classes. It was interesting; then I could design lessons for teachers to deliver that incorporated lots of what they would use and small amounts of the parts that they shied away from. I found much greater success with my successive lessons that I thought I would.

I wonder what would happen if you surveyed your students at the beginning as to what they liked or felt was useful to them or something along those lines. Not on current assignments or the class as it is – you’ve done great surveys on that – but what they actually find interesting in their lives or plan to do as adults. I wonder what would turn up? 

Week 4, Technical Difficuties

Whew! Today was rough. I've been combing through my website, working out how to do my final presentation. At one point I decided to do two, a presentation and a paper. Needless to say, I've been a little anxious. Suddenly, I looked over at my webs in iWeb and it was all red. Having had problems publishing before, I hit the publish button immediately. I got the spinning beachball in response. Several times. Then I notice that my scale at the bottom of the page was saying I had used all of my space. I knew I hadn't. This chilling scenario continued as I searched and deleted and worked on debugging. Finally, a couple of hours later, I got my web saved and closed down the computer. When I came back up, it was as if nothing had happened . . . I really don't need this right now.