Demotivational posters

by | Friday, June 25, 2010

I have been a big fan of Despair.com and its quirky, dark humor. I particularly love the demotivational posters, with their beautiful inspiring photographs coupled with some deeply cynical or depressing message.

Today students in my MAET summer program completed a unit on motivation. They read the standard Ed Psych motivational literature (Dweck etc.) and also watched the RSA / Daniel Pink video (that I had linked to here). And then, they created a series of demotivational posters. These posters were created in Google Presentation, with images from Flickr and most importantly they had to use their ideas from either the readings or from the Pink video. [Incidentally the video was not created by Daniel Pink, nor by RSA, but rather by Cognitive Media.]

Here is what they came up with, click on the words to see the posters. The names of the students who created them is provided below the titles.

Incentives
Scot Acre
Patrick Gillespie
Marc Compton
Shawn Telford

 Individuality
Kerry Guiliano
Aaron Moran
Mike Bammer
Julie Howe
Addy Hamilton		 Motivation
Barb Bedford
Cheryl Schaefer
Hope Andres
Stacey Schuh		 Rewards
Grace Bammer
Mary Wever
Jessica Steffel
Sarah Blazo		 Curiosity
Craig McMichael
Chloe Tingley
Lial Miller
Katie Lorey

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6 Comments

  1. sharmila
    sharmila on September 15, 2010 at 7:52 am

    Here is what they came up with, click on the words to see the posters. The names of the students who created them is provided below the titles.

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  2. retro
    retro on July 11, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    The cat one was horrible. But funny!

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  3. Chernah Coblentz
    Chernah Coblentz on July 5, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Wow, just took a look at despair.com. Scary – I’m already channeling my dark side.

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  4. Veronica
    Veronica on July 4, 2010 at 10:42 pm

    Didn’t really like the Curiosity poster, actually.

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  5. Andrea
    Andrea on June 25, 2010 at 6:51 pm

    Oh my goodness, the Curiosity poster made me LOL. What a great idea for an assignment, too. Thanks to the MAET-ers for sharing them!

    Reply
  6. Jordan Walker
    Jordan Walker on June 25, 2010 at 4:30 pm

    My favorite is Rewards – interesting what athletes do to reward themselves…

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