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Insignificant Wranglings
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Listening, Passivity, and/as Ethics
This morning a tweet caught my attention: Loved hearing Albers and Harste speak about reclaiming writing #ncte14 #reclaimthejoy #literacies pic.twitter.com/ifqU0mEdTY — Jon Wargo (@wargojon) November 22, 2014 I haven’t read Albers and Harste before, so I’ll have to track down … Continue reading
New Media Week 13
Today we have several things on the docket. Digital Projects Today is a good time to check in on the final digital projects. I know many of you are interested in revising your MEmorial for inclusion in the article. Let’s … Continue reading
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Rhetoric & Gaming 13.2 / Planning Your Board Game
Previously I shared a few resources for Project 4 (Creating a Board Game). Today I want to clarify my expectations for the project and make sure that you all have a group to work with (though you are more than … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 11.2 / Gamification, Procedurality, and ARGs
The majority of today will center around my presentation on Gamification, Procedurality, and ARGs (Alternate Reality Games). First, however, I wanted to share some language and resources for making a game. I’m freestyling this, so hopefully you can help me … Continue reading
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New Media Production Week 10
WEEK 10. How is it already week ten? This requires that I reassess all the hopes and dreams I packed into the syllabus in order to identify what we can actually accomplish in the time we have remaining. I have … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 10.1 / Research Resources
Today’s class has two primary objectives. First we will discuss the McGonigal reading. I think McGonigal opens interesting pathways into (re)thinking the value of games. Then we will move into the research project that I introduced in our last class. … Continue reading
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New Media Production Wk 9
Tonight we have 2-3 primary objectives. First, I would like to discuss Shipka, and what “A Composition Made Whole” means to you. I am especially interested in hearing from our folks outside of the R/C community. In doing so, I … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 9.2 / The Research Project
Project 2 Reflection So far this semester, I have asked you to think about video games in terms of two common concerns of the humanities: art/aesthetics and gender/race. In the first project, we explored whether/how games facilitate higher-level aesthetic experience: … Continue reading
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Walter Ong: Writing is a Way of Being
Lecture notes on Ong: Below are my lecture notes on Ong. Here’s the quick version: Ong, along with Eric Havelock, were among the first scholars to argue that literacy was more than a tool that simply communicates what human think. … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 8.2 Bogost, Rhetoric, and Procedurality
We’ll talk more about Bogost next week, after you have completed Project 2. In today’s class, you’ll take a quiz that will highlight some key terms. But I wanted to take a minute to explicate what I see as a … Continue reading
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