insights did you gain? How can you use your experience working with the Big Idea
inform your curriculum? (Talk about the process, lessons learned, and how to make it
relevant for your students).
Feedback was overall good for my project/presentation. A few things that were mentioned were that in my original images, my font was a smidge unreadable. Another thing was that everyone (including myself) hated the song that I used for my stop motion animation. That's okay though, because what I'm going to do is have my brother make me a song for it instead. He's a musician and that's his thing, which is good for me because I can use it! Ha.
Overall, I've enjoyed the process of working with a big idea to make curriculum. Honestly speaking, I feel like it makes it a little bit easier. Although it's very easy to go - okay, I want to teach my students painting, collage, ceramics, blah blah blah and come up with arbitrary reasons for why they're doing it, having the connections between everything that they're doing, along with their own personal connection, really makes it their own. A few things that I've learned along the way is that not everyone thinks in the same way that I do (NO WAY! It should have been obvious, haha), so I have to articulate myself better. I've also learned that I completely overwhelm myself by making my project ideas too big and way too complicated. Simplification is a good thing, but often I think, oh no, this is way too simple. Then it seems like I need four hours, a powerpoint presentation, a live action performance, a musical number, and a seven course meal to explain myself. Keep it simple, it's much less grief.
Making things relevant for my students is one of my extreme worries, but I feel like as long as I let them make their own connections without being so specific, it can work. Once again, not everyone thinks like I do.
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