Teacher Of the Year

When I created my magazine cover I kept in mind the elements of media literacy and put a lot of thought into how someone would interpret my construction if they were to dissect it. I chose a close up picture of myself with contrast between the shirt I was wearing and my pale face to draw attention to it. I added an example of my art "Radio Active Owl" oil on canvas I recently painted. Across from the image is the text "From Artist to Educator Samara's Story." This brings your eye to the larger font across the image of my face to read the text, adding emphasis to my image. Secondly I added an image of two beavers, one with obvious artistic talent who has created a sculpture out of a tree and meanwhile his friend says "just stop it" implying that he is overenthusiastic about art which is never the case. The text below it states "everyone is an artist! explore the talent you didn't know you had" perhaps the second beaver has not tried to create, she does not know her talents. An example of a grabber line would be: "absence of technology is hurting our students." Any educator would want to help their students not hurt them, which fills them with the need to buy the magazine. Subtext of the grabber line allows you an opportunity to look into "7 ways you can help!" Yet another grabber line beneath the first is "you cant draw the box if you are inside it" and follows up with "insight on teaching techniques." Next, we have the title, which is not distracting by being too large or brightly colored, it blends in with the color scheme. Below the title is "special interview with teacher of the year." Also, the GR code, which is what I used in place of a bar code to seem more technologically inclined, is in the bottom left corner. The bar code would normally be distracting but because of the use of white in the color scheme there are more interesting things to view. Above the code is the issue month and year. Because it is so small it is easy to miss. 

Overall, I used several tactics of persuasion. Association in form of topics in which fellow educators would be interested in such as helping their students instead of hurting them by implementing technology in the classroom with "7 steps." In a way my expertise as being a credible source, since I did receive the teacher of the year award, as to my insight into teaching techniques. Dare I say, beautiful people was used as a persuasion technique. I used a picture of myself in which my make-up and hair was done and I am wearing a nice shirt and have a happy smile, drawing individuals to the cover. Obviously, my target audience would be fellow teachers, however, because I added information about art and my personal story and an interview other art buffs may find the magazine interesting.