THEORY of KNOWLEDGE
EMOTIONS as a WAY of KNOWING
MEDIA CURATION WEBSITE PROJECT: EMOTION GALLERY
RATIONALE: The goal of this project is to allow you to explore 2 emotions in
more depth, aggregate relevant multi-media sources, and curate by offering
personal commentary. It is a chance to show your unique interests and aesthetic.
Moreover, we will have an extensive gallery of specific emotions to which we can
reference when composing the TOK essay.
OVERVIEW: You will be working with 2 emotions of your choice. After identifying
the emotions, you can seek out examples of the manifestation of this emotion
from an endless variety of sources. The artifacts should be tied to as many Areas
of Knowledge (History, Arts, Maths, Sciences, etc.) as possible. Moreover, they
should be a manifestation of the emotion, or a representation of how that emotion
either HELPS or HINDERS “knowing”.
PROCESS:
1. Choose 2 emotions from these lists:
http://www.sba.pdx.edu/faculty/mblake/448/FeelingsList.pdf
http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/assess/feelings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrasting_and_categorization_of_emotions
One idea is to choose to contrasting emotions, such as Anger and Fear, or
Pride and Shame.
2. Start searching everywhere, or even creating, artifacts that contain
representations of each emotion. Start with the courses you are taking
first, then branch out to the Internet. You should have a VARIETY OF
MEDIA, such as:
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photography
artwork
music
poetry
literature
quotes
film clips or other drama pieces (script dialogue, etc)
natural phenomena (like a video of an animal fighting, for anger)
historical items (events, personal accounts, speeches, film clips,
photos)
interviews first-hand accounts)
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tweets and other status updates from social media
infographics / statistics
articles
news stories / current events
Language B items- poetry, quotes, video, words, etc.
Your own creations if you like (art, photo, poetry, film, texts and posts,
etc.)
Save into Diigo, Pinterest, Scoop.it ,Tumblr, folders, or any other way as
you collect.
3. Designing and Compiling the website gallery: we will be using WIX
(www.wix.com) They offer totally customizable templates in both Flash
and HTML 5. You will need to sign up for a free account and you will have
lots of support in building/ managing your site. We will spend time in class,
though there are user-friendly video tutorials.
****Wix is an amazing tool for creating a personal website or digital
portfolio, so you will find it handy after this project is finished.
4. Adding commentary: you need to add commentary to your artifacts (text
or audio). Explain the rationale why you chose them and what specifically
about them represents the emotion. You can add more personal thoughts
but keep in mind you should demonstrate the following:
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HOW THIS ARTIFACT DEPICTS THE EMOTION IN RELATION TO
OTHER WAYS OF KNOWING (LANGUAGE, REASONING,
PERCEPTION)
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HOW THIS ARTIFACT CONNECTS TO ANY OF THE AREAS OF
KNOWLEDGE (MATHS, NATURAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES,
HISTORY, ETHICS, RELIGION, ARTS)
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HOW THIS ARTIFACT RELATES TO KNOWLEDGE (IS IT AN
OBSTACLE? DOES IT PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE?)
Some LINKING QUESTIONS to think about:
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What does biology tell us about emotions? (Science)
How much is a problem of bias in Social Sciences? (PSYCH)
What role does empathy play in a historian’s work?
What role does passion play in an artists’ or authors work? (ARTS, LANG)
Is ethics a matter of the heart or head? How do emotions contribute to our
decision making?
6. To the Arts provoke emotion or purge them? (ARTS)
7. What role does emotion play in religious belief? (RELIGION)
8. Is language used more to describe or persuade? (LANGUAGE)
9. To what extent do emotions color our perceptions? (PERCEPTION)
10. How important is intuition, or passion in Math or Science? (MATHS,
SCIENCES)
11. Are we driven more by reason or emotion? (REASON)
SOURCES:
CURATION:
Google or other browsers, Tumblr, Storify, InstaGrok (pulls from variety of media)
YouTube, your own life and classes, Twitter and FB,
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/