Epilogue 12-13-10

The purpose of this blog entry is to explain to future students what I think the class named Seeing Sideways is all about.

I think that Seeing Sideways is a class intended to teach students to explore and create new things, free of whether it's "right" or "wrong". Basically, anything goes as far as assignments go...as long as the assignments are not pornographic in nature and as long as they obey school rules. I guess this class is preparation for future projects within the workforce.

Assignments include doing whatever you want with an egg, doing something that involves your identity, creating something that inspires you, and analyzing your beliefs, be they in God, in another deity, or lack of belief, and creating something from those beliefs.

You also have to make blog entries presenting such projects, and justify said projects(how it works, why they created it, etc.).

That's pretty much it from me.

"What is it?" Blog 10-29-10

On Monday, we were shown a pile of materials that resembled some mail to a Maria Vasquez in Arlington, Virginia. We then saw it and had to tell the two "holders of knowledge" through Oncourse mail what we thought the package's contents were. I told them what I had thought it was, though I gave both guys different answers. I had since searched through Google and then found out what it really was, but I don't want to spoil anything until Monday.

I think Mrs. Lykins wanted us to tell us what we thought the package was to create a story and/or world or to do independent research of a package's contents to discover the truth behind the contents and where they came from and to enhance problem-solving skills, though I'm leaning more towards research and problem-solving. Luckily, I was able to remember what the objects were, so that I could look their titles through Google. The internet really is a treasure-trove of information, especially in cases like this. I know it might be cheating, but none of the rules involved "not using any search engine at your disposal".