Movie posters

Linda and Heidi s "story" heuristic helped ground faculty discussions of writing in their "place" just as Jane and Maureen s (University of Nevada, Reno) "movie poster" activity helped ground faculty discussions of assessment in their "perceptions" of writing. Stations... 

One of our primary fears was that instructors would feel attacked by the assessment and resist participating in the process, so we tried to provide a space for instructors to discuss their perceptions of assessment. We used the focus groups as the opportunity to voice these concerns about assessment by having small groups of instructors create movie posters depicting visual representations of assessment. 

To complete this project, members of each group had to discuss their perceptions of assessment and agree on the representation. We then let the other members of the focus group interpret the movie poster before allowing the designers to discuss their process. The movie posters ranged... 

Jane and Maureen s movie poster activity provides a DCM heuristic for uncovering educators values about writing. DCM-inspired activities are inherently visual, and they provide alternatives to traditional interviews, surveys, and questionnaires. DCM-driven methods, such as this movie poster activity, make visible aspects of rhetorical values that traditional research methods may not be able to reveal. In fact, Broad (personal communication, October 6, 2006) explained that UNR s innovative application of DCM reveals educators "latent rhetorical values" using a "psychoanalytical approach." Stalions... 

Nourmand, Tony. 2001. James Bond Movie Posters The Official 007 Collection. San Francisco Chronicle Books LLC. 

A state that can t take a joke At Trailer Park, Governor Wise would be sold a temporary tattoo (they re available at the bar for five dollars) and directed to the poster of Teenage Hitchhikers, a 1974 movie. He could watch Dragnet on the television, where justice is served, as it should be, like beer without a glass. 

In addition, despite his magnificent contributions to chemistry and the many awards that he has won for them, Ken still has not learned to take himself seriously. This summer he and Robin convulsed an audience of quantum chemists by dressing and acting like movie stars on Oscar night when they presented the award for best poster at an international conference. People who meet Ken are amazed to discover that a chemist as famous as he can be so easy going and so funny. Nevertheless, Ken really is one of the people who helped to transform physical organic chemistry from the study of reaction mechanisms in solution to the much broader field that it is today. 

The author grew up on his grandparent s cotton and cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle during the early seventies far from the nearest town (20 miles), school (12 miles), and even farther from the world of James Bond. Growing up the author did not see a single James Bond movie or a poster for a Bond film until he was thirteen years old. The impression it and a myriad of other pop culture artifacts made on him helped to shape his career as a graphic artist. Here is his story. 

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