Thursday, May 8, 2014

Creativity: The Spice of Life

Writing is one of those things where you have to be in the mood for it. One day I can be totally into a topic and the next I fall flat, all because of the little things that made up my morning or just my overall level of motivation that day, but when I'm home I always seem to do well because I am in my own little area.

Creative writing is when an author just writes to entertain themselves or a targeted audience, using their minds as the basis for the story. It is important and fun to do this every so often because it makes you think a different way. It makes you able to generate situations and events in your head in order to achieve a theme or end result. This can help you to understand your own life, knowing what needs to happen in order to achieve an end result, or a goal. It does the mind good to analyze the order of events on paper, in order to be able to do it in your own life.

In relation to my masterpiece, creativity is what will set apart all the different projects. Everybody has their own subjects and things to present, and anybody can just slap together a slide show, but I don't believe in that. I believe that to truly understand it, and to make others understand it, everybody needs to present it in the way that enabled them to truly understand it, to bring everyone else down to their own level.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Masterpiece Interview

Here are the questions I asked three classmates in regards to their masterpieces:
1. What is your masterpiece on?
2. Why?
3. What is the significance of this project in your life/career?
4. How do you see this work helping you in life outside of school?
5. Has anything surprised you in your work?
6. What do you need to successfully complete your project and present it?
7. What have you learned that's worth teaching someone else?

Here are their responses:
Carlos Serrano
1. Boxing
2. He is passionate about it.
3. He would like to make a career out of it.
4. He would like to become a professional and to teach self-defense.
5. He was surprised about the amount of cardio involved.
6. He needs to record himself.
7. He has learned self-defense which is useful for others to learn
Alfredo Arriaga
1. Needs to find something to do.
2. Feels he needs direction right now.
3. Its significant to have a direction and purpose.
4. Collaboration to find inspiration.
5. It isn't that easy.
6. Find something to do.
7. To teach to start thinking early.
Jake Dickens
1. Becoming a wide range veterinarian.
2. He loves animals and has a passion for helping them.
3. Help him figure out his exact path to achieve this.
4. Be able to have a career in it.
5. It is MUCH harder than becoming a regular doctor.
6. He needs to finish documenting his internship.
7. If you want to learn about it, you need to go all in and go for it because there is a lot to learn.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Help Us Help You

If you haven't been keeping up with my or my colleagues blogs, we are currently doing our masterpiece on Architecture, and our project in response to our visit to Cal Poly. We will be doing what so many students have been talking about for years: a classroom made for students, by students. We will have the literal dimensions and renditions of the current classroom (Room 608) with drawings from every perspective, and we will completely destroy it and start from scratch. Now I don't want to give too much away, but our new classroom to be revealed on the day of the Masterpiece Gallery will be something revolutionary, and hopefully a precedent for the design of future learning spaces.

Now it wouldn't be completely made by students if there are only a few opinions on the project, so please feel free to comment or contact me, Matt Berumen, Alfredo Medina, or Cecelio with any ideas you would  like to see in our classroom of the future and don't worry we will still cite our source.