Class Recap: Day One

I didn't know what to expect from this class.  I'm still not exactly sure what to expect.  It reminds me of those college classes in cheesy movies where the professor dramatically throws apples or something.

I enjoy being creative.  Most people would say I'm pretty good at it, even.  But for me, creativity and art needs a purpose.  Creativity and art need to make the end product better.  Not just "different."

Case in point: the syllabus.  

On the one hand, there WAS a point to making it a "musical syllabus."  The idea was to get us thinking in new ways about old things.  On the other hand, it was different merely for the sake of being different.  The end result was much less effective than a traditional syllabus at doing what syllabi do: communicate information.  Does this make it a bad design choice?  Probably so.

I don't know if that makes me one of the "I'm just going to get an easy A in this class" students or not.  I look forward to the class regardless.  I know this class is about challenging the way we think.  I hope to be challenged, and I hope to challenge the way Beth thinks and the way my classmates think too; not only the other way around.

~TomBob

Written and posted while sitting in my pajamas in front of Stargate SG-1