Tips for next year!

When I first started this class, I will admit that I certainly intimidated as well! For the first few days of class, things seem really complicated, but the thing about this class is that is different than any other classes. Never before had I had to communicate with a real company about what I was writing, or had to create something for them. Since you are working with a real company, real deadlines are involved. It was hard and frustrating at first to get used to being flexible with deadlines and yes, sometimes not knowing what was going on, but I quickly realized that is how real life is! Sometimes, things are due right in a row, but since we work in a group, the workload is never too much too handle. All of the assignments we did were able to be easily split up among all members of the group, which takes a lot of pressure off of you. As overwhelming as the projects may be, Angie is great about letting everyone know when things are due and being really understanding and flexible. One of the most important thigns to remember is to get comfortable with your group! I had a great group of all girls, and we all worked so well together becasue we able to always split up the work, stay in communication with one another, and be honest with each other! We saw GREAT results, and I was so proud to be a member of the Little Miss Sunshines group! In the end, everything comes together for this class, you just have to keep the big picture of what you are going for in your head! Good Luck!

Contribution to Final Project

In the upcoming week, since we will not be having class meetings, our group will be meeting to discuss our contribution to the final project. We know that we have to contribute clip art and the fundraiser link, so will be working to finish up those two things. For the fundraiser link, we will have to ask other group who had fundraiser links what they put on their link. WE can compile that information, and work it into our orignal link. HOpefully by doing this, we will cover the full scope of fundraising for the ASH.

Also, I think we will just compile all of the clip art so we will have them readily available for the final website. As of right now, I do not know what my final task will be to do to get ready for our final contribution. We will discuss this on Monday at our first meeting, but I imagine that it will nto very hard or time consuming to do, maybe just emailing a few people in other groups.

I am looking forward to seeing the final website soon, especially after seeing all of the group presentations!

Dual Coding Theory

The Dual Coding Theory is a very important theory that influences many aspects of our lives. It is a theory that says that visuals are associated with messages that we receive. The DCT is very widely used in marketing. In marketing, advertisers associate certain images with certain products. For instance, Coke is currently using a marketing campaign in which they use classic american small town life and associate images from it with drinking coke. By doing this, people are supposed to get that fuzzy happy feeling about Coke. Another example would be celelbrities being associated with certain products, such as Diane Keaton being the face for Revlon Makeup.

Another example is association of images with words, like they do when they teach young children how to read and spell... "A is for Apple". This practice helps the kids learn how to associate words with letters!

The DCT is widely used on the news by showing pictues with everything that they report on the news, and helpng people associate certain images with what they are talking about. This is a very effective method, and helps to excercise the power of the media. If you take the time to look, the DCT is all around us!