A few weeks ago I posted a note about an assignment I gave my students in the on-campus version of the MAET program. They had completed an unit on motivation and had watched the RSA / Daniel Pink video and their task was was to create demotivational posters, (along the lines of those on despair.com) using ideas either from their readings/discussions or from the Pink video.
The posters were a huge success. In fact Daniel Pink tweeted them (Thanks Daniel) and lots of his followers ended up on my website to see the work done by the students, which is all very cool.
Well, I am now in Rouen, France, meeting with the students in the off-campus MAET program. I got a chance to work with each of the groups (representing year 1, 2 & 3) and had them create similar posters as well. So now we have a total of 17(!) posters. It is interesting to see just how different they are, even the ones that tackle the same concept do it differently.
I have included all of the posters below — the one’s from East Lansing as well as the one’s created here at Rouen. Click on the words to see the posters (the names of the students who created them is provided below each of the posters).
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| Incentives
Scot Acre |
Individuality
Kerry Guiliano |
Barb Bedford
Cheryl Schaefer Hope Andres Stacey Schuh |
Grace Bammer
Mary Wever Jessica Steffel Sarah Blazo |
Craig McMichael
Chloe Tingley Lial Miller Katie Lorey |
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Melanie Hosbach |
Rewards 2
Sarah Pickles |
Theresa Hamilton
Larissa Lisayo Miguel Herrera |
Cheytoria Hickey
Bridget Reed |
Kristi Dix
Patricia Liff Rugh Gadson Olivia Shillings |
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Frances Snowden, |
Mastery2
Paul Blackwell, |
Bill Marland,
Christina Popowski, Jillian Johnson, Jamie Perry |
John Hogan
Michelle Cox Sean Sweeny Rehb Rajab Alfred McDonnel |
Dean Halverson
Ashley Priem Shaza Ahmed Lauren Cortesi Camiella Hudson |
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Material Incentives
Rawad Bon Hamadan |
Bossel Deiry
Susie Dina JP Bennett Kelly Cunningham Kristin Bergeron |
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel is a book written by two of my high school friends, Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal. 
Next time, try suggesting the theme “Demotivation”.
Haha the Daniel Pink tweet, yes that was great.
Paige, I am glad you like these posters. I think we had a great deal of fun in this activity.
I think you are free to use this in your blog posts as long as you provide proper credit and a link back to this page. Drop me a note when you do so.
take care ~ punya
I was wondering what the copyright on these photos is? Would love to use the “Grading” on in my new blog post.
What do you think?
These teachers did a GREAT job on these!
Thanks,
Paige McClement
I was curious what the copyrights are on these posters. I just wrote a blog on getting rid of grades in my classroom. The Grading poster would be great addition to that post!
The teachers did a great job on all of these!
Thanks, Paige
I was just looking over the demotivational posters again. The students in France also did a great job. I loved the Apathy one for sure and the Collaboration poster really speaks the truth in many instances. Many points to ponder.
Also loved the Daniel Pink tweet. Amazing project indeed!
I actually laughed out loud for Collaboration. They all look great!
Huh, I feel like I now have a bond with those MAET in
France.
I particularly like “Grades”, you make a good point on that one.
Grace
Punya,
Saw the Daniel Pink tweet and followed. Nice project! Looks like a gas to create.
Take care,
Tim Madden
(former student, like, ’00-’02)
Punya, I am excited to see the posters, but the links on the new posters actually take us to the posters created in the MSU summer cohort. I will stay tuned in:-)
Julie
Julie, the links have been fixed now. Sorry for the screwup, but I wanted to get this done before I left Rouen and guess what, in my hurry, I messed up.