Cook book ideas
Hello! For our next project i think that the discussions we had amongst our groups were really helpful. I found that in my group (myself, Tara, Anthony, and A7) we brainstormed a lot and found that our projects really linked together. They almost turned into steps in a learning process i found. Progressions if you will.
After class i began thinking about the whole thing, and thought, well why not just brake it all down into learning steps. I think that our projects are steps that can help a person work their way up to operating a piece of technology like the new ipod or palm pilot, with picture and/or video potential. I thought that the first step in the learning process would be Anthony's "I spy with my little Map" idea. A person organizing a Treasure Hunt could print out an I Spy map for the person with Amnesia. It would be their goal to learn how to read the map and eventually find a destination. The next step would be for someone to upload pictures onto an ipod photo for example, and have the person look for a place using the picture map. This is where my project idea with the key colours in a picture would come in. This would help the person use their colour skills learned in Anthony's project, and project the same idea but with real pictures now. If in the future apple made an Ipod that could record small video clips really easily, Tara's video idea could come into play. A person could help the person with amnesia with recording a small excursion, or even emotions onto their ipod and they could learn in easy steps how to lable the video and play it back in the future. A7 had an ipod photo i believe so he was able to show how it could work, and we also showed Judith through handling the ipod how easy it could be to snap photos or shoot video with our ideal, futuristic new ipod that we can only describe.
posted by Megan @ 11:32 PM
3 Comments:
I like your synthesis of the different projects in your group and in the class. This could be a collaborative project, based on a holistic notions of requirements that suit different individuals. As we have seen, each individual will have different symptoms and degrees of memory loss (from the mild age related or absent-minded forgetfulness, to brain-injured and disease-related amnesia), and everyone will react to different triggers, or find one sort of memory trigger is much more effective than another.
So I like this idea of an individual memory toolkit very much!
I hope we can invite reps from apple - as well as all of our contacts at OCAD, Baycrest, U of T and elsewhere to our end-of-year presentation of this work. Perhaps they'll be inspired! The memory toolkit is the way to go, for all the reasons Martha outlines. Good work.
megan, is this intended as your recipe? If so, I would suggest adding illustrations and a more step-by-step style of writing, with an "ingredient list" of technology required.
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