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Prototype #1 - Focusing on Unity (2 pts)

Through the brainstorm, we realized that the most powerful emotion we were trying to create was a sense of unity between the 4 houses before they graduate. Once young wizards graduate from Hogwarts, they will have to collaborate with all types of wizards (and magical creatures) around the world.

Creating a sense of unity on a very small level:

Step 1: Play a game of wizard telephone

Step 2: End game with a spell "LUMOS" (Can you visualize 40 wizards making light shoot out the end of their wands? So pretty.)

These activities are not supposed to be complex nor difficult, rather they should allow us (The Bludgers) to see if people do enjoy being apart of a collective.

#prototype #unity

New focus: Creating a sense of unity and closure for Hogwarts students.

40 disjointed students enter hogwarts.

4 houses created.

1 class of hogwarts students exit.

#unity

Brainstorm - Create 2 pts

Visually representing the brainstorm.

Realized that most of our ideas centered around creating experiences.

Put the brainstorm post its (red, blue, green) on top, followed by pictures underneath them that typify aspects of how we felt this experience would be manifested.

#brainstorm #create

visual representation of experiences green

in a school full of tradition, create a new unifying ceremony for exiting students that feels like it's been around forever.

#brainstorm #create #BeVisual

visual representation of experiences blue

express individuals growth process over time at hogwarts

#brainstorm #create #BeVisual

visual representation of experiences red engender sense of unity b/n 4 disjointed houses before they go off into the world

#brainstorm #create #BeVisual

Brainstorm - create 2 pts

How might we - create 1pt

#howMightWe #create

Looked at some Harry Potter fan blogs and searched for mentioning of the graduation ceremony and how it would be imagined.

Alicks

Second Year

Feb 03, 2008

1:43 am

In an interview J.K. Rowling was asked if there was a graduation ceremony at Hogwarts, perhaps sailing from Hogwarts to the train on the boats. She replied that she hadn't thought of anything for a graduation but loved the boats idea. I love the boats idea as well and the point of this thread is to have a discussion about possible ideas for graduation.

Key Takeaways:

most relied on the interview in "Graduation Ceremony Part 1 of 2" post and agreed that the boat idea seemed to be a good choice: arrive by boat, leave by boat. balanced. harmony. most popular idea (if this were post - it voting, this would have gotten most votes).

overall ppl on this blog had a few key trends:

Once it was brought to peoples' attention that JKR didn't include a graduation ceremony in HP people were surprised.

Knowing that graduation in europe isn't a big deal was shocking to ppl. This is significant because it shows how familiar people are with the british educational system, suggests a bias that (especially US) people have in assuming that graduating high school is a fanfare and large event (like at Andover).

Some sentiment that if jk rowling wanted graduation to be important she would have written about it.

Many people tried to strike a balance between US and British understanding of graduation. They imagined the ceremony would probably be smaller and more intimate, not something involving the entire school.

"I would love to see something in the Great Hall.. Nice and simple, in dress robes with the Minister present. Nothing huge, like the ones we have here, but just the students leaving Hogwarts and the Headmaster. Just a simple speech, naming the best in the year. Kind of uniting them before they leave, since they had been seperated by there houses throughout the school years." -CoeurDeLyon

#understand #engage #boats #ceremony #interview #socialMedia

Graduation Ceremonies at Hogwarts are not detailed in the Harry Potter Series. The following is an excerpt from an interview done with J.K. Rowling about the lack of detail surrounding how young wizards leave Hogwarts.

Key Take Aways:

JKR would have liked to have a ceremony detailed, but it didn't fit with the story arc of the HP series

First year students arrive to Hogwarts via boat

JKR considered a boat departure poetic, beautiful, a return to innocence and symbolic especially because water is symbolic of in history of magic

water: flows and finds smoothest course, emotional, vital for life, soothing, deep

JN: Now, you know what I'm curious about now (SU: Mm-hm.), is that one of the neatest things about the Hogwarts tradition is the entrance ceremony, from the whole riding the boats to the castle to the sorting ceremony. What kind of traditions is there for graduation, and leaving Hogwarts?

JKR: Do you know, John, I'm really glad you asked that, because I felt a huge sadness that I wouldn't write a graduation scene.

JN: Yeah.

JKR: Yeah, I really did. I knew, I mean I knew from early days that we were never going to see them graduate. I knew that he would, well not he, but they, all three of them would not- We would not see them at school during what should've been their final year of education, but I really, during the final book, kept thinking it would've been- It felt sad that the book wasn't going to end with that feast scene, the graduation scene, but it couldn't, it just couldn't. That's not the way it could've ended. It would've felt far too trite, and a lot of people felt the epilogue was too sentimental. I think to have a graduation scene on top of what just (SU: Yeah.) happened would've been absurd (SU laughs) (JN: Aw.) anticlimax.

JN: Did you have ideas for kind of traditions they would do, like ride the boats back out of Hogwarts (JKR: Oh yeah definitely!) or something? Because I know I'm not as good as thinking these things.

JKR: The boats would've been the most poetic and beautiful way to for them to leave, and symbolic in that they- Harry would have seen the Threstrals again. You know what I mean? It would've been a return to innocence really, and passage of water is so symbolic, in history of magic. So yeah (JN: Yeah.), I think it would've been great.

#understand #engage #interview #ceremony #boats

Slow Lightning - Reframe - 4 pts

Metaphors:

Managing popularity-

...is like filling a cup...because...it gets heavier as you fill it.

...is like riding a roller coaster...because...there's always twists and turns.

...is like making spaghetti...because...you have to wait until it boils to stop.

...is like singing...because...its hard.

...is like a clean towel...because...it feels fresh on your face.

Managing a career path-

...is like playing twister...because...you have to put your hands and feet in lots of different places.

...is like a frog...because...it hippity hops.

...is like a ticking bomb...because...it could blow up at any time.

...is like a wet dog...because...it stinks.

...is like writing a story...because...its always an adventure.

Insights:

Managing a career path is a much bigger issue for most students graduating from Hogwarts. It entails aspects of a wizard's personal life as well as residual effects from their time at school.

There are a bunch of ways that wizards can have a career post-Hogwarts, but a lot of them (if not most) involve a wizard's state of mind. Personal issues are almost as impactful on career as career decisions themselves.

#slowLightning #reframe #career #personal

Slow Lightning- 4 pts- Reframe

#slowLightning #reframe #success #map

Analogous Empathy- 2 pts (+2 points for different user)- ENGAGE

Composite user:

Alexander McIntyre, Phillips Academy (Andover)

Graduate of Class of 2012, 18 yrs old

Shy as a 9th grader, became involved in student government, a musical group, and enjoyed social studies, math and biology.

Won an award for academic achievement upon graduation.

Parents are Laura and Peter McIntyre, live in Guilford, CT.

One sibling, younger brother Ryan, 15 yrs. old.

Plans on attending Cornell University in the Fall.

Finds that his experience at Andover transformed him into a more outgoing, confident and motivated young man. Without his experience studying away from home he feels that his academic and career paths would be dramatically different.

See below for Analogous Empathy materials.

#analogous #empathy #compositeUser #andover #interview

These are a collection of photos and quotes from private high school commencement ceremonies. They are intended to provide insight into the mindset and mechanics of a commencement ceremony at a private high school institution, with many from boarding schools on the east coast (analogous in student body to a school like Hogwarts). The photos are from Lawrenceville, Andover, and The Branson School. All commencement quotes are retrieved from an Andover commencement archive from 2009.

#analogous #empathy #ceremony #compositeUser

Commencement 2011

#ceremony #compositeUser #empathy #engage

Andover Graduation Ceremony 2010- Analogous Empathy- ENGAGE (2 pts)

continued above

This is an analogous situation in that this is a target age group of private boarding school students who are going through a transition in leaving their school. This school is located in the United States but has similar characteristics to those of Hogwarts: diverse student population (purebloods, muggle-born, etc), teaches a variety of disciplines and students board there during the school year.

#ceremony #empathy #analogous #engage #compositeUser

Extreme Users (2pts + 8pts for different users) - ENGAGE

#extremeUser #engage

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