Mark Bernstein, Tinderbox creator, sends readers on to our own Brendan Finn and gives him a “well worth reading” compliment. Brendan didn’t quite make a Joyce Cycle in his hypertext, but it was a nice cycle nonetheless.
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We are starting our next project in digital storytelling today.
Here are links to tutorials for the software you might be using:
Windows Movie Maker (comes free on all Windows machines).
Another free download you might want to try is Photo Story 3 for Windows.
On the Macbooks, there is iMovie 08.
Lastly here is a site with links to [...]
This morning I demo’ed two short works of IF: Nine Points and The Legend of Grammy’s Apple. Both serve as demonstrations and tutorials of how to play and interact with works of interactive fiction (text adventures.) For a more detailed explanation of playing IF, read this useful overview.
After that, we discussed the importance of creating [...]
Dan Kimerling of TechCrunch has some interesting and arguable ideas on the relationship between Microsoft and future power users. He writes
Another example of Microsoft’s inability to understand younger users, comes in what I can only call their software design philosophy, which I can summarize as “Throw in More Features”. Yet, that seems antithetical to [...]
This is something to look into: SnapPages.
I don’t know a lot about webpage creation tools, such as SnapPages and the product from Google, but it’s well worth the time to play with the software. That’s what we do: play, explore, and wonder at the usefulness.
SnapPages™ provides a suit of tools that make creating your [...]
Jess has found an interesting relationship between Harold and PictoChat:
Today in class we discussed the story Harold and the Purple Crayon. I couldn’t help but make a fairly obvious comparison to the PictoChat Battle Stage in Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii. For those who have yet to play the game the PictoChat [...]
Here’s an interesting entry from Nat Torkington of O’reilly on the subject of ubiquitous computing. He draws from an interview with William Gibson, focusing on this quote:
One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that [...]
Check out these apps and companies:
Alertthingy
Twhirl
Crowdvine
CogHead
Spinscape
Jive
I lend my computer to a student so that he can work on his IF project and I find this on the desktop.
Cool.
Via Techcrunch we have a link to a new product forthcoming that mashes Twitter for educational use called Edmodo.
Tonight, work began on creating an analog hypertext by creating a paper-based system based on individual stories and personal preferences. Work will continue throughout the semester.
Steve explains the process.
Systems develop.
The “lexia.”
The hypertexts begin…
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David has a post on USA Today and meets the world of dynamic content:
I logged on to USA today the virutal newspaper early this morning, while waiting for it to get light so I could go shovel snow. I recall the headlines were about the Grammies, which interest me not at all. Eventually, I shovelled [...]
In this course we will be talking a lot about systems and what they mean. For example, on this day I took some time to work on some photos. Now that I can again work in the Photoshop landscape, the image editor I’m most comfortable with, I can get back to the business [...]
Looks like Unreal Tournament will be coming out for the Mac soon. John and I like this because this will make the dev tools available cross-platform. Maybe Valve will make the next move because, again, the SDK would be made more available to the user, and would make our job easier in getting students [...]