Realistic Science Fiction Connections?

How are technology scinece and science fiction merging based upon your google reader subscriptions?  Please reflect in class on 9-23-11.

Xenophobia In Science Fiction?

What is your definition of xenophobia, and how did the card activity make you think about your definition? What emotions can you assign or connect with the term and concept of xenophobia in Science Fiction?  Please use the quote from your card in your response.  This blog response is due during class on 9-19-11.

"Future School" Extrapolation Project Reflections

Now that you have read many of your peers' Future School Extrapolation Projects, what are you thinking?  Holistically, what are your reasonable extrapolations regarding all of the extrapolations you have read?  What potential changes excite you the most?  What potential changes fill you with angst and apprehension?  Other thoughts? 
(Please complete this blog response by 2:30p.m. on Mon., August 29th)

What Is Your Defenition Of Science Fiction?

Robert A. Heinlein, author and critic:

Science fiction is "realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method" (quoted by Knight in Bishop, Nebula Awards 25, 3).

Theodore Sturgeon, author:

"'A good science-fiction story is a story about human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content'" (as quoted in Atheling, More Issues, 12).

George Hay:

"Science fiction is what you find on the shelves in the library marked science fiction."
(Aforementioned quotes were borrowed from Dr. Agatha Taormina's web page): http://www.nvcc.edu/home/ataormina/beyond/


Which of these quotations aligns with your definition of Science Fiction? Please respond thoughtfully using references to class discussion, prior knowledge, science fiction literature, science fiction films, etc... Type using complete sentences. This blog response is due by 2:30p.m. on Friday, August 19th, 2011.

"Star Trek" And Paradox?

How does the Star Trek episode: City On The Edge Of Forever address Time Travekl and Paradox?  Please share your thoughts regarding specific Time Travel ideas and this film.  Please complete by April 20th at 2:30p.m.

Ordinances And E.T.?

After reading Denver Ordinance 300, did you think of any short story or class connections? If you can incorporate quotations, reflect, challenge, or discern with keen insight, please do so in your blog post due today.

Burros? Icky? Apes? Other?

How does The Planet Of The Apes movie make us contemplate and wrestle with the concept of xenophobia? Does it pertain to the Science Fiction we have read? Use quotations from the movie and text to support your claims. Please use googledocs to create your notes after each viewing of the movie; post to this blog after the final movie excerpt is shared.