DRAFT ABSTRACT
PRESENTATION
TUTORIAL NOTES 230426
– ‘Are there any other locations apart from a school where you could circulate this material?’
Consider a library if school doesn’t work. If nothing came from the school, it could work.
What conditions would that bring?
– ‘You don’t; need to see what you do here and single, standalone projects… it might have another extended life. Imagine this existing in a school and then the same principles or spirit then being pushed through to a library’. Children go, free resource.
– Design – by removing guilloché, makes it much simpler. Inconsistencies with column width because of time (just a day spent designed the rest of the week researching and writing). 3 spreads for each good. Structure discussed (THEN, NOW etc). Add in intro to parents, consider front and end matter down the line, introductory statement and glossary.
– Activities – shared breakfast reference! Kids will go find object and ask questions about it, can this go deeper?
– User testing after you see the schools – see the teachers and then get it in front of kids.
– FORMAT – look at splitting the five items into separate publications? To create one whole one?
Could there be a follow up? Building on these ideas? Could the items link somehow? Could they be linked somehow? Not using narrative. The item could be separated out, one a week. Should we drip feed the content? Passport as a folder, mini publications within it, bitesize chunks. It allows us to go deeper in two the objects as well. Structural decision there.
– End on a cliffhanger at the end of one book, link the book with the copy, some kind of narrative? ‘Next time we’ll be collecting something really sweet’. Could they document the journey of one object?
– Kids could investigate the objects themselves, let the objects speak back to them. Could it be more sensory, howdies it smell, open the pack and pour it?
– Could the text be based on how a kid would find out about the items themselves? From their point of view?
– 5 mini publications, making up one big one.
(Could this be a treasure hunt IN the library? Kids find the object, fill in the passport)
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ACTION POINTS
1 – See teachers, confirm appointments and ask about user testing.
2 – New iteration based on that feedback
3 – Testing and evaluation, school or library or families I know socially,