This is an inspiration piece. It’s been a long time since I allowed myself the freedom to add a touch of random creativity into this blog. I miss it. I confess that I’ve been feeling a bit torn about the focus of the blog since graduation.
I’ve been fascinated with stop motion and paper as a medium for a while now. I love the final product here. It’s fresh. If you trace it back to Vimeo you’ll find more videos on how this was made. Pretty amazing. I would love to be able to see something like this used in an eLearning context (yes, I know the budget)….as a labor of love?
I ran into this clip from Ira Glass. I love his message here.
In my post Visual Metaphors I thought, “It’s wonderful that I can recognize good design. But I feel that I’m not where I want to be.” Ira Glass, who is a genius at post-modern storytelling, explains that this is a normal part of the creative journey. There will be a time when your vision is larger than your applied skills. His suggestion: work your way through it – persist – hold yourself accountable for doing the work, even though it may not meet the high standards of the vision you hold. Through persistence one becomes, is able to craft, a progressively higher quality product. I found Ira’s humility and honesty very encouraging.
I also hear echoes of Kolb’s cycle in here….reflective observation of what is good (the vision), hypothesis (how can I create this), active testing (doing, creating), concrete experience of doing leads to full learning experience. I also wonder about scaffolding during the process. With more scaffolding (mentoring for example) can the process be sped up? Sometimes, as in the case of Ira, there are no mentors doing exactly the same thing. One has to create their own vision at some point along the way. There’s lot of food for thought here for me.