The Nature of being Compelling

Ok, so with the chance of this negatively affecting my grade, I must confess a bit here.  Being compelling on command is HARD and a bit frusterating.  Although maybe that is the point.  I am struggling to put something together that is compelling, and it is starting to stress me out.  For me being compelling is something that happens through a different process than getting an assignment and attempting to "ace" it, although this two-week I am feeling more like just trying not to fail is the goal. I think part of the goal of this class is to get us thinking differently about assignments as teachers and what it means to be compelling, to shape our definitions of compelling in an attempt to help us understand better of what the goal is for our students, because ultimatley every teacher wants students to leave with a broader understanding and opened mind.  So far as we have been doing readings, and watchings and listenings, my definition is shaping up like this (at this point, but part of being compelling is that the definition is not always stagneant):  To be compelling means to use many senses to experience something in a new or different way from how one might have viewed or experienced something previously.  To enlist a new way of thinking about something based on new experiences.  It is something along those lines anyway.  So here is were I am struggling as a student and as an educator.  It feels like there is a right answer that as students we are supposed to get to, and as an educator, sometiems there are right answers that need to be learned.  2+2=4.  There is a process for learning it but no matter what you use, for the most part it is taught first with concrete objects and then it moves to abstract.  Maybe, though, it is the process that you learn it which is in and of itself compelling.  I don't know.  Perhaps I should have posted this on a discussion board rather than a blog, or maybe I don't really want my questions answered, or my musing looked at as readily so somewhere inside I posted it here because it is slightly "safer."  Or maybe this is all the point getting us outside our comfort zone and trying to push us, or I am missing the point completely and the professor is thinking "how did she make it thought undergrad" (I truely hope that isn't the case, and actually did quite well in my undergrads :) )  Either way, this was a much harder module as a student than photography...although like I tell my students, if it is easy then I am not doing my job because apparently you already know it and I shouldn't be teaching you something you already know.