Saving the World and Final Projects

So today our Visual Literacy class "Saved the World!" There were 5 teams, which surprised me, for some reason I thought we had 4 teams. Either way I liked that every team chose a very unique way to use their little yellow stickers to save the world. The "SunSpots" were fun, but I had to vote for the group with the full skit. Mostly because they played a Queen song at the end of the presentation! Scientific process...highly over rated! I really liked the visuals we saw in all the presentations. Even though it was only a poster, I really liked what the last team came up with. I couldn't vote for them though (see the above mentioned reason). Most of the teams used a variety of media including music, video, live performance, and pictures. It was kind of a fun class, but my group's bribes didn't seem to work in our favor! We came in third place. We used Google Sites to create a partially interactive "game." We used pictures, props, videos, participation, candy, and prizes! I thought our project was pretty great, and I have several ideas of how to make it better if I want to use it myself later! The Eco-Bunny videos that Lindsey found were just awesome. Our group worked well together overall and I think we'll do okay on the final project too.



The final project selection went well. I think having one group be able to chose their word gave everyone else the opportunity to select the word they wanted. My group ranked the words in order of what we wanted before the selection, and I'm happy to say we got our first pick. I think everyone got their first or second pick actually. Which is nice. We chose the word: FUTURE. It's gonna be a fun project. We had lots of great ideas being thrown around right away, and I think the momentum will continue! What I want clarified is the actual number of visuals required. I know the title of the project is "a word is worth a thousand pictures," but do we actually need to document 1000 different visuals? I'm not sure. I know there was a lot of talk about getting the project description posted so that we all had a better idea of what was required. I think having some guidelines for this project will make it a little less stressful than the Save the World project, THANK GOD!