For this post, I want you to begin thinking about your essay. How will you apply/explore "color" through the lens of your specific major/discipline? This is a brainstorming blog, so I want you to come up with at least three different ideas.
It is interesting to me how blue is the color that a lot of social media websites use blue as their outline. For example, twitter, Myspace, Tumblr, Facebook, and etc. There is a huge relationship between crime and social media. The media and the news actually desensitizes citizens because they are so used to seeing crime,the same type of crimes, or a certain ethnicity committing the crimes. Citizens actually will go to these websites for news, instead of watching the news or using a newspaper.
Blue is not only my favorite color, but when you think of law enforcement, you usually here #BlueLivesMatter. Blue is the identified color within law enforcement and it is very important.
Blue is sometimes considered dark or depressing, or it is correlated with boys instead of girls. When some police interview little kids, they will sometimes use colors as feelings and blue is used as sad while purple or yellow is used as happy.
Cheyenne, this sounds good. You could definitely explore all the terminology of "blue" in law enforcement, such as the "thin blue line" and "blue wall of silence."
I currently work with Autistic children and I would like to explore on self-expression; therefore, the ZONES of regulation; green, yellow, blue, and red.
Green means happy, calm, focused, etc.
Yellow shows excitement, frustration, worried, etc.
Blue means sad, sick, tired, etc.
Red shows mad/ angry, terrified, out of control etc.
I would like to learn more what these colors can define and help with. Also, to where they came from and why they express these emotions.
My major is liberal studies however; I would like to be a special education teacher. I know that special ed teachers focus on life skills a lot in their curriculum so I would like to use the three colors that these students will constantly see when out. Obviously they will see several colors but these three are important to understand and can be used in numerous ways.
I would like to explore with the colors red, yellow, and green.
Red is a universal signal for stop and can also be used to describe emotions such as angry.
Yellow means to slow down but can also be used to show students that it is time for them to calm down.
Green typically means go but it has numerous meanings to it so I would like to explore more about these colors and their uses.
I selected these three colors because of the traffic lights and how different they are from one another. Their uses could be endless and I think they would be great to work with for my particular major.
Lupe, this is a good start. You could focus on classroom setting; for example, teachers are told to avoid painting their classrooms yellow because the color itself agitates children and increases anxiety (unlike green or blue). You could focus on using color as a means to "control" behavior in a classroom, or you could focus on using color as a means for children's/students' self-expression. Good start!
I am interested in exploring the color Red for my essay. I am currently majoring in criminal justice and my experience in taking the courses it helped me gain knowledge on what really happens within the fields of the criminal justice system.
Red mostly is a color that is expressed as violence. In comparison to the law enforcement’s job description, violence is an outrage that happens mostly on the job due to particular individuals. Law enforcement’s goal is to protect and defend society, therefore sometimes violence will happen no matter what due to gang related crimes.
Since, red is a color that also symbolizes a harsh warning such as danger, it can be related to the cons within the career of a law enforcement officer. The life of being a law enforcement officer is mostly not balance due to individuals that he/she arrested in the past and might see them in public. They might arouse in anger towards the officer and his/her family.
Red is the also a color that blood is referred to. Law enforcement has a huge bad reputation with using deadly use of force against minorities. As a result, blood is being splattered due to some minorities developing a sort of mindset of the saying, “an eye for an eye”. Since, law enforcement is abuse their power, some individuals may want to harm them back as well and due to some other issues of corruption happening in the courtrooms. In additional, "Black Lives Matter" is well-known, so having blue will definitely also conclude in "Blue Lives Matter" too.
Overall, I think law enforcement can be related to red because it is a color of that refers to violence, dangerous, and blood.
Yuri, you could definitely tie this to gangs as well (i.e. "bloods") as well as the so-called "red squads" of police in many big cities in the past (and maybe the future . . .)
I am double major, psychology and child, adolescent, and family studies. My ideas are: 1.The neuropsychological approach to color. How color is processed through the eye and the brain. Exploring the three basic attributes: hue, value, and saturation.
2.Psychological properties of color. How color affects the brain and emotions. Personal experiences and memories are associated with certain colors. Colors can have three effects: Cultural effect, symbolic effect, and psychological effect.
3.Color psychology specifically children and the different colors. How different colors affect learning and memory in children. Schools should take color into consideration in classroom settings. Blue: Enhances creativity. Red: Strong feelings of excess stimulus, love, and threat. Yellow: Enhances intelligence. Green: Increases relaxation. Pink: Calming color. Purple: Attracts attention. Orange: Enhances critical thinking and memory.
I major in biology, and it was pretty tough to think of topics to use involving colors. I thought these would be the best topics to talk about.
1. I was thinking of talking about the biology of how color is seen. i wanted to talk about how genetics play a role in which colors we can see and also how our eyes are able to see in color.
2. I was also thinking of talking about how the liquids of body have different standard colors and how we use that to determine whether a person is healthy or falling ill.
3.finally, I thought of talking about chromatophores and melanocytes which are pigment containing cells that allow certain types of animals to be of different pigments from one another.
I am a biology major. In the World of science, colors hold a significant amount of importance. They are used in many different settings: In hospitals, colors are used for gender specificity. For example pink bandages are used for young girls and blue bandages used for young boys. Pink is also the primary color used for breast cancer awareness for example in slogans, t-shirts, hand bracelets and many other objects. In anatomical settings, colors are used to determine the state of functionality of certain body parts. Concentrating on my major, some of the colors I am inclined to pursue are the colors red and blue. When thinking of color red in relevance to one’s body, it is considered optimistic. Red is often an indication of a good sign. For example, when a body part has a red color, it is considered healthy and functional. In comparison with blue which is indicative of danger. A body part that has attained blue color indicates loss of functionality due to deprivation of oxygen, vital source for all living things. Furthermore, colors are used to describe pain using pain scale, where red refers to severe and green refers to mild to no pain.
I am majoring in kinesiology. The following are my ideas:
1. I can easily use the color red as a symbol for injury or trauma. Not every injury that occurs in sport is traumatic, but typically sport associated injuries are painful experiences, therefore red can be also used as a symbol for pain both physiologically and psychologically.
2. A lot of the standards remain the same between the medical field and the sports medicine field, yet they are very different in terms of medical understanding. Choosing two colors that are the same but not the same can represent the two clashing fields. Maybe two colors that are meant to be together on the spectrum but are not typically seen together because they are not pleasant when placed together.
3. Kinesiology is the study of human movement. The color yellow can be seen as a symbol for energy or movement. Yellow is also the color of sunlight, which humans can use as a source of energy. Yellow can be seen as a source of the metabolic process or the product (energy).
It sounds like you want to use the idea of color and design for information and understanding of otherwise complicated ideas (for patients and/or healthcare providers). Sounds like a good idea!
I currently have a few ideas that I might explore for this paper:
1.) As a communications major with a focus in public relations, I have learned about the importance of symbols in nonverbal communication. Choosing symbols to represent a client or organization is one of the most important parts of nonverbal communication. Different colors often represent different organizations or causes. For example breast cancer awareness is often associated with the color pink. Various organizations and causes often have a color associated with it and my paper could explore the importance of these colors from a PR/Communications standpoint.
2.) As a marketing minor, I could focus on the importance color plays in advertising, and product packaging. Often times colors are used to cause a certain reaction from the consumer, such as using orange packaging to produce feelings of warmth or happy emotions.
3.) A third possibility could be a combination of idea one and two. A paper that explains how color can represent an organization, a brand, and a product.
My major is Criminal Justice. I am exploring the color blue which relates to the “Thin Blue Line” and the “Blue Wall of Silence.” The “Thin Blue Line” places a blue horizontal line in between a black line on top and bottom. Both colors have a meaning. The blue horizontal line represents law enforcement officers. The top black horizontal line represents the public. The bottom black horizontal line represents the criminals in society. Behind the “thin blue line” analogy is that law enforcement officers are what keeps society at peace. Without law enforcement, the world would turn to chaos. Recently with many officer involved shooting incidents, the “thin Blue line” has interpreted to supporting law enforcement and their difficult job
I am a nursing major, and color places a big role in our daily work as a nurse. Some of the color meanings include:
Red is the color of blood and is associated with trauma. It also is the color used for emergencies, when we triage this color is level 2 meaning the patient is critical and needs to be seen within 15 min. It is also the color of the code for fire in most hospitals. When assessing a patient, the color red indicates the patient is healthy and blood is flowing through their body.
Blue is the color used widely to indicate level 1 in triage, which means these patient need resuscitation and need to be seen immediately. It is also the code color for an adult cardiac arrest. When assessing a patient, this color indicates lack of oxygen.
Overall, I think that I could talk about the role that colors play in the assessment of patients to indicate their health status. I was also thinking of talking about the meaning of the colors associated with certain situation in triaging and codes.
For the given essay, I chose the color red and I will be breaking the topic down from a psychology major's perspective. It would be interesting to delve deep into the reasons why red is viewed as a color of love and how it evokes a romantic response. It would also be interesting to view, in the same way, how red can simultaneously evoke a romantic response from a person, as well as be associated with anger and hatred. I think there's a psychological correlation between the two. Also, I'd explore how red can be a symbol of desire, while being a sign of danger, such as "red flags." Or even begin to find out why red can create a feeling of aggression and confidence.
My major is nursing and my ideas will be centered around the color blue. 1.) Code blue in the hospital means that a patient is in cardiopulmonary arrest. There are many codes of colors like code pink, code red, code purple, cold gray, etc. But code blue is the most frequent one you'll hear whilst in the hospital. 2.) I just found out recently when learning about inserting Nasogastric tubes into a patient that anything colored blue is considered sterile which means don't touch it. 3.) Seeing the color blue on my patient means that he/she is lacking oxygen.
Heriberto Pian I am Business major with a concentration in finance, and I think these would be a good topic. How a color plays a role within an organization. I can use the color black/blue to represent the seriousness of business, especially in the finance world. I can also use a combination of colors and see how they relate into business terminology for example when comes to managing a portfolio.
My major is Business Administration with a concentration in Management. Last year, I took a course discussing the effects that different environments have on employees and customers. I can specifically explore the effects different colors have in the workplace. There was an example that was brought up where the interior color of a car pound office was changed to hot pink. They wanted to see if the bright color could bring a more positive mood to the customers. The results were positive and in conclusion they had less aggressive customers. I can also look into how the color of the uniforms could change the productivity of employees. This is the only topic I can currently think of that relates to color in management.
I am a Liberal Studies major and my ideas on color will revolve on my future experiences in the classroom.
I can describe how each color represents the different types of students I will encounter during my career.
I can also have the colors represent the different reactions I will have to different types of students. With some I will click and connect with and others I will have to put more effort into.
I can also go into the psychological effects that colors have on the brain, the effects that the chemicals released by each color affects mood, and how I will use this information to design my classroom in a way that promotes learning.
Rainbow Myths In religious studies I am constantly studying sacred myths. Through research I found that there are many myths regarding rainbows, including religious myths. With this topic I can explore how myths define rainbows and their significance.
Symbolic Colors in Religious Traditions For this topic I can look at what colors are most commonly associated with certain religions and why. My paper can look at multiple colors and religions. As an example, green is a very meaningful color in Islam. I can discuss why that is and how that color is used in relation to Islam.
Some other ideas that came to mind but I cannot quite place within focus are: how colors convey the sacred, how colorful religious objects are employed to convey the sacred (for example, stained glass windows), or analyzing how colors are used effectively in religious myths.
As a liberal studies student, I've had to take a child development class and one of the most interesting things I learned in that class is what color, from an early age does to a brain. From the paint you choose for a baby's room to the school's decision to repaint the classrooms, the colors they choose will influence how that child's brain works in a sense. I found this to be completely fascinating and decided to look into it. I recently found an article stating that for students in elementary school, they should be in classrooms that are primary colors-red, blue, or yellow but that the colors should not be too bright because it could cause some children to become "overstimulated, energetic or anxious" but colors that are too dull (think schools that receive little funding and don't get money to repaint and repair classrooms) are under-stimulating. The article also talks about trend with age, so I would talk about generally younger students since I want to teach kindergarten. It is said that "red, peach/orange, warm yellow, salmon, coral and violet" reduce tension here. I would probably talk about red and yellow as colors and then group the oranges together as one large topic.
I feel like yellow is a color I saw a lot throughout school and it has became my favorite color. I would like to maybe do it on the aspect of what yellow makes them think of. I did a facebook survey earlier in the week and got over 40 responses with over 25 different answers. With common core, it's supposed to be about students learning how they learn it in different ways so I think it reflects the way the new school's system encourages their learners.
I am really interested in talking about behavior charts!!! So often teachers refer to the behaviors as the colors they are on and so in that class the students all fear those colors. There are psychological ties to these colors based off this behavior chart. These charts fill classrooms across the country and are responsible for making tons of children anxious. I would study a general behavior chart and talk about why that color may be associated with the "crime."
With the major of Liberal studies i can relate color to my classroom. My students can explore the meanings of color and what they can represent. With an elemenatry class i can show my students the meaning of colors and explain to them which colors belong to what. Students will understand that colors affect behaviors and how color has the ability to inspire others and certain students might feel sensitive to colors and that is why in my classroom i will create colors in my classroom that will be joy to students.
As a liberal studies major, I feel as to grab and keep attention of students, that you need colors that pop to them. A color that I would use a lot within my career and classroom would be the color red. Finlay uses red in a few different ways within chapter, one way I know for sure that I could use the color red would be for is ways to show children that things are off limits, or perhaps certain posters and papers to show classroom consequences. I am relating this to her story of the dragons fighting, although her interpretation is different I am using it with how students confront each other and argue and how I as the teacher would confront them and handle the situation.
Another major way that I could use red within my teaching career would be that I could also use red items as incentives, perhaps red goodies, maybe sneak red candy. This idea I also got from the chapter "Red" because the color red was always in demand by people. People were anxious to get their hands on insects and other items that could create red dyes. In some ways I am sure this was an incentive for people, and could be used to push students even farther with some incentive waiting for them at the end of a task.
Another way I could see myself using the color red, would be to let students express themselves in a way. I understand that students can sometimes be upset over things that may occur at home and I believe if I let students have journals or perhaps certain times to write or draw what they feel, it would give me another way to see more into they way my students may be. At first the color red may seem as a color of just anger, I feel like there could be certain ways to use it other within the classroom.
The first idea that I have is to use the colors of red, white, and blue to talk about the problems going on today with our new president and some of the changes that he has made that people do not agree with. For example, eliminating all of planned parenthoods. I could use the color pink for this as well because it can stand for babies and birth control issues.
I am a liberal studies major and I would like to teach an elementary school class later on. I cold use a representation of colors because these are what help children find out what status they are in the class. For example, when I was in elementary school we have a board with our name on it with a clear slip that had different color cards in it. These cards showed where you stood in the class to show if your behavior has been good or bad. The order would go green, yellow, orange, and red.
Being a liberal studies major, I've learned quite a lot about what bad behaviors to look for in children that want/need help in their home lives. On thing that has come up quite often is the problem of foster children and their behaviors at school. I'd like to use color red for this to represent abandonment and how these foster children have been abandoned.
As a business administration major, I want to first take into account and explore the color "black" because it emphasises a more serious and powerful dimension. The business world is known to be a serious field. I think the color "black" would be a great start in discussing specific attributes in the business field. I also want to discuss how different colors can create a positive and negative image among consumers. Lastly i would like to explore how several colors are able to affect organizations internally. For example, how employee's are treated and how they treat one another amongst themselves.
As a psychology major, I want to look at how different colors can cause physiological and psychological effects to children and see if these effects impact student learning.
As someone who has a passion to teach kids, I want to how the colors red, green, and yellow effect children's moods and feelings. When i was a kid, we had those three colors in slips which signified our behaviors. It'd be interesting to see why it is normal to associate green as good and red as bad.
I am also interested in the way color affects marketing, specifically with food sales. I have heard it is common for restaurants and fast food places to paint their walls yellow because it stands for loudness and a creates a bigger appetite.
I want to explore the color blue.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to me how blue is the color that a lot of social media websites use blue as their outline. For example, twitter, Myspace, Tumblr, Facebook, and etc. There is a huge relationship between crime and social media. The media and the news actually desensitizes citizens because they are so used to seeing crime,the same type of crimes, or a certain ethnicity committing the crimes. Citizens actually will go to these websites for news, instead of watching the news or using a newspaper.
Blue is not only my favorite color, but when you think of law enforcement, you usually here #BlueLivesMatter. Blue is the identified color within law enforcement and it is very important.
Blue is sometimes considered dark or depressing, or it is correlated with boys instead of girls. When some police interview little kids, they will sometimes use colors as feelings and blue is used as sad while purple or yellow is used as happy.
Cheyenne, this sounds good. You could definitely explore all the terminology of "blue" in law enforcement, such as the "thin blue line" and "blue wall of silence."
DeleteI currently work with Autistic children and I would like to explore on self-expression; therefore, the ZONES of regulation; green, yellow, blue, and red.
ReplyDeleteGreen means happy, calm, focused, etc.
Yellow shows excitement, frustration, worried, etc.
Blue means sad, sick, tired, etc.
Red shows mad/ angry, terrified, out of control etc.
I would like to learn more what these colors can define and help with. Also, to where they came from and why they express these emotions.
This sounds like a good start!
DeleteMy major is liberal studies however; I would like to be a special education teacher. I know that special ed teachers focus on life skills a lot in their curriculum so I would like to use the three colors that these students will constantly see when out. Obviously they will see several colors but these three are important to understand and can be used in numerous ways.
ReplyDeleteI would like to explore with the colors red, yellow, and green.
Red is a universal signal for stop and can also be used to describe emotions such as angry.
Yellow means to slow down but can also be used to show students that it is time for them to calm down.
Green typically means go but it has numerous meanings to it so I would like to explore more about these colors and their uses.
I selected these three colors because of the traffic lights and how different they are from one another. Their uses could be endless and I think they would be great to work with for my particular major.
Lupe, this is a good start. You could focus on classroom setting; for example, teachers are told to avoid painting their classrooms yellow because the color itself agitates children and increases anxiety (unlike green or blue). You could focus on using color as a means to "control" behavior in a classroom, or you could focus on using color as a means for children's/students' self-expression. Good start!
DeleteI am interested in exploring the color Red for my essay. I am currently majoring in criminal justice and my experience in taking the courses it helped me gain knowledge on what really happens within the fields of the criminal justice system.
ReplyDeleteRed mostly is a color that is expressed as violence. In comparison to the law enforcement’s job description, violence is an outrage that happens mostly on the job due to particular individuals. Law enforcement’s goal is to protect and defend society, therefore sometimes violence will happen no matter what due to gang related crimes.
Since, red is a color that also symbolizes a harsh warning such as danger, it can be related to the cons within the career of a law enforcement officer. The life of being a law enforcement officer is mostly not balance due to individuals that he/she arrested in the past and might see them in public. They might arouse in anger towards the officer and his/her family.
Red is the also a color that blood is referred to. Law enforcement has a huge bad reputation with using deadly use of force against minorities. As a result, blood is being splattered due to some minorities developing a sort of mindset of the saying, “an eye for an eye”. Since, law enforcement is abuse their power, some individuals may want to harm them back as well and due to some other issues of corruption happening in the courtrooms. In additional, "Black Lives Matter" is well-known, so having blue will definitely also conclude in "Blue Lives Matter" too.
Overall, I think law enforcement can be related to red because it is a color of that refers to violence, dangerous, and blood.
Yuri, you could definitely tie this to gangs as well (i.e. "bloods") as well as the so-called "red squads" of police in many big cities in the past (and maybe the future . . .)
DeleteI am double major, psychology and child, adolescent, and family studies.
ReplyDeleteMy ideas are:
1.The neuropsychological approach to color. How color is processed through the eye and the brain. Exploring the three basic attributes: hue, value, and saturation.
2.Psychological properties of color. How color affects the brain and emotions. Personal experiences and memories are associated with certain colors. Colors can have three effects: Cultural effect, symbolic effect, and psychological effect.
3.Color psychology specifically children and the different colors. How different colors affect learning and memory in children. Schools should take color into consideration in classroom settings.
Blue: Enhances creativity.
Red: Strong feelings of excess stimulus, love, and threat.
Yellow: Enhances intelligence.
Green: Increases relaxation.
Pink: Calming color.
Purple: Attracts attention.
Orange: Enhances critical thinking and memory.
Sweet! These sound like great ideas.
DeleteI major in biology, and it was pretty tough to think of topics to use involving colors. I thought these would be the best topics to talk about.
ReplyDelete1. I was thinking of talking about the biology of how color is seen. i wanted to talk about how genetics play a role in which colors we can see and also how our eyes are able to see in color.
2. I was also thinking of talking about how the liquids of body have different standard colors and how we use that to determine whether a person is healthy or falling ill.
3.finally, I thought of talking about chromatophores and melanocytes which are pigment containing cells that allow certain types of animals to be of different pigments from one another.
These are great ideas!
DeleteI am a biology major. In the World of science, colors hold a significant amount of importance. They are used in many different settings:
ReplyDeleteIn hospitals, colors are used for gender specificity. For example pink bandages are used for young girls and blue bandages used for young boys. Pink is also the primary color used for breast cancer awareness for example in slogans, t-shirts, hand bracelets and many other objects.
In anatomical settings, colors are used to determine the state of functionality of certain body parts. Concentrating on my major, some of the colors I am inclined to pursue are the colors red and blue. When thinking of color red in relevance to one’s body, it is considered optimistic. Red is often an indication of a good sign. For example, when a body part has a red color, it is considered healthy and functional. In comparison with blue which is indicative of danger. A body part that has attained blue color indicates loss of functionality due to deprivation of oxygen, vital source for all living things. Furthermore, colors are used to describe pain using pain scale, where red refers to severe and green refers to mild to no pain.
Great ideas!
DeleteI am majoring in kinesiology. The following are my ideas:
ReplyDelete1. I can easily use the color red as a symbol for injury or trauma. Not every injury that occurs in sport is traumatic, but typically sport associated injuries are painful experiences, therefore red can be also used as a symbol for pain both physiologically and psychologically.
2. A lot of the standards remain the same between the medical field and the sports medicine field, yet they are very different in terms of medical understanding. Choosing two colors that are the same but not the same can represent the two clashing fields. Maybe two colors that are meant to be together on the spectrum but are not typically seen together because they are not pleasant when placed together.
3. Kinesiology is the study of human movement. The color yellow can be seen as a symbol for energy or movement. Yellow is also the color of sunlight, which humans can use as a source of energy. Yellow can be seen as a source of the metabolic process or the product (energy).
It sounds like you want to use the idea of color and design for information and understanding of otherwise complicated ideas (for patients and/or healthcare providers). Sounds like a good idea!
DeleteI currently have a few ideas that I might explore for this paper:
ReplyDelete1.) As a communications major with a focus in public relations, I have learned about the importance of symbols in nonverbal communication. Choosing symbols to represent a client or organization is one of the most important parts of nonverbal communication. Different colors often represent different organizations or causes. For example breast cancer awareness is often associated with the color pink. Various organizations and causes often have a color associated with it and my paper could explore the importance of these colors from a PR/Communications standpoint.
2.) As a marketing minor, I could focus on the importance color plays in advertising, and product packaging. Often times colors are used to cause a certain reaction from the consumer, such as using orange packaging to produce feelings of warmth or happy emotions.
3.) A third possibility could be a combination of idea one and two. A paper that explains how color can represent an organization, a brand, and a product.
Colors and branding/marketing . . . Great idea!
DeleteMy major is Criminal Justice. I am exploring the color blue which relates to the “Thin Blue Line” and the “Blue Wall of Silence.” The “Thin Blue Line” places a blue horizontal line in between a black line on top and bottom. Both colors have a meaning. The blue horizontal line represents law enforcement officers. The top black horizontal line represents the public. The bottom black horizontal line represents the criminals in society. Behind the “thin blue line” analogy is that law enforcement officers are what keeps society at peace. Without law enforcement, the world would turn to chaos. Recently with many officer involved shooting incidents, the “thin Blue line” has interpreted to supporting law enforcement and their difficult job
ReplyDeleteI am a nursing major, and color places a big role in our daily work as a nurse. Some of the color meanings include:
ReplyDeleteRed is the color of blood and is associated with trauma. It also is the color used for emergencies, when we triage this color is level 2 meaning the patient is critical and needs to be seen within 15 min. It is also the color of the code for fire in most hospitals. When assessing a patient, the color red indicates the patient is healthy and blood is flowing through their body.
Blue is the color used widely to indicate level 1 in triage, which means these patient need resuscitation and need to be seen immediately. It is also the code color for an adult cardiac arrest. When assessing a patient, this color indicates lack of oxygen.
Overall, I think that I could talk about the role that colors play in the assessment of patients to indicate their health status. I was also thinking of talking about the meaning of the colors associated with certain situation in triaging and codes.
For the given essay, I chose the color red and I will be breaking the topic down from a psychology major's perspective. It would be interesting to delve deep into the reasons why red is viewed as a color of love and how it evokes a romantic response. It would also be interesting to view, in the same way, how red can simultaneously evoke a romantic response from a person, as well as be associated with anger and hatred. I think there's a psychological correlation between the two. Also, I'd explore how red can be a symbol of desire, while being a sign of danger, such as "red flags." Or even begin to find out why red can create a feeling of aggression and confidence.
ReplyDeleteMy major is nursing and my ideas will be centered around the color blue.
ReplyDelete1.) Code blue in the hospital means that a patient is in cardiopulmonary arrest. There are many codes of colors like code pink, code red, code purple, cold gray, etc. But code blue is the most frequent one you'll hear whilst in the hospital.
2.) I just found out recently when learning about inserting Nasogastric tubes into a patient that anything colored blue is considered sterile which means don't touch it.
3.) Seeing the color blue on my patient means that he/she is lacking oxygen.
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ReplyDeleteI am Business major with a concentration in finance, and I think these would be a good topic. How a color plays a role within an organization. I can use the color black/blue to represent the seriousness of business, especially in the finance world. I can also use a combination of colors and see how they relate into business terminology for example when comes to managing a portfolio.
My major is Business Administration with a concentration in Management. Last year, I took a course discussing the effects that different environments have on employees and customers. I can specifically explore the effects different colors have in the workplace. There was an example that was brought up where the interior color of a car pound office was changed to hot pink. They wanted to see if the bright color could bring a more positive mood to the customers. The results were positive and in conclusion they had less aggressive customers. I can also look into how the color of the uniforms could change the productivity of employees.
ReplyDeleteThis is the only topic I can currently think of that relates to color in management.
I am a Liberal Studies major and my ideas on color will revolve on my future experiences in the classroom.
ReplyDeleteI can describe how each color represents the different types of students I will encounter during my career.
I can also have the colors represent the different reactions I will have to different types of students. With some I will click and connect with and others I will have to put more effort into.
I can also go into the psychological effects that colors have on the brain, the effects that the chemicals released by each color affects mood, and how I will use this information to design my classroom in a way that promotes learning.
Rainbow Myths
ReplyDeleteIn religious studies I am constantly studying sacred myths. Through research I found that there are many myths regarding rainbows, including religious myths. With this topic I can explore how myths define rainbows and their significance.
Symbolic Colors in Religious Traditions
For this topic I can look at what colors are most commonly associated with certain religions and why. My paper can look at multiple colors and religions. As an example, green is a very meaningful color in Islam. I can discuss why that is and how that color is used in relation to Islam.
Some other ideas that came to mind but I cannot quite place within focus are: how colors convey the sacred, how colorful religious objects are employed to convey the sacred (for example, stained glass windows), or analyzing how colors are used effectively in religious myths.
As a liberal studies student, I've had to take a child development class and one of the most interesting things I learned in that class is what color, from an early age does to a brain. From the paint you choose for a baby's room to the school's decision to repaint the classrooms, the colors they choose will influence how that child's brain works in a sense. I found this to be completely fascinating and decided to look into it. I recently found an article stating that for students in elementary school, they should be in classrooms that are primary colors-red, blue, or yellow but that the colors should not be too bright because it could cause some children to become "overstimulated, energetic or anxious" but colors that are too dull (think schools that receive little funding and don't get money to repaint and repair classrooms) are under-stimulating. The article also talks about trend with age, so I would talk about generally younger students since I want to teach kindergarten. It is said that "red, peach/orange, warm yellow, salmon, coral and violet" reduce tension here. I would probably talk about red and yellow as colors and then group the oranges together as one large topic.
ReplyDeleteI feel like yellow is a color I saw a lot throughout school and it has became my favorite color. I would like to maybe do it on the aspect of what yellow makes them think of. I did a facebook survey earlier in the week and got over 40 responses with over 25 different answers. With common core, it's supposed to be about students learning how they learn it in different ways so I think it reflects the way the new school's system encourages their learners.
I am really interested in talking about behavior charts!!! So often teachers refer to the behaviors as the colors they are on and so in that class the students all fear those colors. There are psychological ties to these colors based off this behavior chart. These charts fill classrooms across the country and are responsible for making tons of children anxious. I would study a general behavior chart and talk about why that color may be associated with the "crime."
With the major of Liberal studies i can relate color to my classroom. My students can explore the meanings of color and what they can represent. With an elemenatry class i can show my students the meaning of colors and explain to them which colors belong to what. Students will understand that colors affect behaviors and how color has the ability to inspire others and certain students might feel sensitive to colors and that is why in my classroom i will create colors in my classroom that will be joy to students.
ReplyDeleteAs a liberal studies major, I feel as to grab and keep attention of students, that you need colors that pop to them. A color that I would use a lot within my career and classroom would be the color red. Finlay uses red in a few different ways within chapter, one way I know for sure that I could use the color red would be for is ways to show children that things are off limits, or perhaps certain posters and papers to show classroom consequences. I am relating this to her story of the dragons fighting, although her interpretation is different I am using it with how students confront each other and argue and how I as the teacher would confront them and handle the situation.
ReplyDeleteAnother major way that I could use red within my teaching career would be that I could also use red items as incentives, perhaps red goodies, maybe sneak red candy. This idea I also got from the chapter "Red" because the color red was always in demand by people. People were anxious to get their hands on insects and other items that could create red dyes. In some ways I am sure this was an incentive for people, and could be used to push students even farther with some incentive waiting for them at the end of a task.
Another way I could see myself using the color red, would be to let students express themselves in a way. I understand that students can sometimes be upset over things that may occur at home and I believe if I let students have journals or perhaps certain times to write or draw what they feel, it would give me another way to see more into they way my students may be.
At first the color red may seem as a color of just anger, I feel like there could be certain ways to use it other within the classroom.
The first idea that I have is to use the colors of red, white, and blue to talk about the problems going on today with our new president and some of the changes that he has made that people do not agree with. For example, eliminating all of planned parenthoods. I could use the color pink for this as well because it can stand for babies and birth control issues.
ReplyDeleteI am a liberal studies major and I would like to teach an elementary school class later on. I cold use a representation of colors because these are what help children find out what status they are in the class. For example, when I was in elementary school we have a board with our name on it with a clear slip that had different color cards in it. These cards showed where you stood in the class to show if your behavior has been good or bad. The order would go green, yellow, orange, and red.
Being a liberal studies major, I've learned quite a lot about what bad behaviors to look for in children that want/need help in their home lives. On thing that has come up quite often is the problem of foster children and their behaviors at school. I'd like to use color red for this to represent abandonment and how these foster children have been abandoned.
As a business administration major, I want to first take into account and explore the color "black" because it emphasises a more serious and powerful dimension. The business world is known to be a serious field. I think the color "black" would be a great start in discussing specific attributes in the business field. I also want to discuss how different colors can create a positive and negative image among consumers. Lastly i would like to explore how several colors are able to affect organizations internally. For example, how employee's are treated and how they treat one another amongst themselves.
ReplyDeleteAs a psychology major, I want to look at how different colors can cause physiological and psychological effects to children and see if these effects impact student learning.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who has a passion to teach kids, I want to how the colors red, green, and yellow effect children's moods and feelings. When i was a kid, we had those three colors in slips which signified our behaviors. It'd be interesting to see why it is normal to associate green as good and red as bad.
I am also interested in the way color affects marketing, specifically with food sales. I have heard it is common for restaurants and fast food places to paint their walls yellow because it stands for loudness and a creates a bigger appetite.