Friday, July 14, 2006

Collage

I'm pretty pleased with how the image collage assignment turned out. They created their collages with all kinds of software: Word, Publisher, PowerPoint. And while my "plan" was that they would see just the circulation of the images, many of them jumped into narrative. Interesting how strong that pull is.

So, take a look.

2 comments:

Donna said...

I agree: the reflections provide this great chance to interpret the interpretation. Maybe I'm just overly excited by meta-thinking, but there's something very powerful about pushing students to think with something other than words and then to use words to talk about that.

Donna said...

No, I wouldn't, either. For me, it's definitely a matter of complacency. Writing works for me, so I'm smug. I push my students to think with new tools, but I'm often loathe to do the same. (I'm not loathe to play around with them, but, like you suggest, I don't compose a collage in place of something like an essay.) I wonder, though, if others see themselves as composing with collages--like Jeff, maybe?