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NMP Calendar Spring 2010

Spring 2010 Calendar
Date Description Assessment
Jan 25 New Media Communication. The New Media Ability framework. Begin review of new media. What do we mean by new media? The academic and professional context of new media.
Jan 27 Concepts and ideas continued: examples of everyday new media and how they reflect general principles. Read Vannaver Bush and this Wikipedia Article on New Media.
Feb 1 Nuts and Bolts: ePortfolio and the iGoogle system. Trend Watch and Information Literacy
Feb 3 Observing systems: using Twitter to think about what systems are doing
Feb 8 Social Media discussion. Observing systems continued. Observing Systems assignment due.  Use this paper as a formatting model.
Feb 10 Snow Day
Feb 17 Metaphors of new media: mapping and representing space. Mapping Space discussion. Submit Idea for Trend Watch
Feb 22 Interface, interpretation, and interaction.
Feb 24 Course review. Self-assessment. Representing Space Assignment Due.
Mar 1 IF Block: Interactive fiction project: Concepts and examples.Download and install Inform 7 on your own laptop and/or home computer. It comes in both Windows and Mac OS versions. Readings: Introduction to IF & Nine Points
Mar 3 Readings:

Interactive Fiction Shorts

Spend at least 15 minutes playing through five (5) or more of these works to get yourself familiar with the form and the possibilities.

In-class demonstration of writing within the Inform 7 authoring environment.

 First Trend Watch Report.  Follow this set of questions to complete the assignment.
Mar 8
Mar 10 Concept Maps due
Mar 15
Mar 17
Mar 22-28 Spring Break
Mar 29 IF transcripts, printing your code, releasing your game (.zblorb file)
Mar 31
April 5 IF Projects due.
April 7 Hypertext block: Read about an hour’s worth of Susan Gibb’s Smile and Adrienne Eisen’s Six Sex Scenes. Discussion. Second Trend Watch Report due in Digication.  See first Trend Watch Assignment for directions. You can also find directions in Digication.
April 12 The writerly, readerly text. Links and relationships.  Read about an hour’s worth of 253
April 14 Orientation to the non-linear writing environment Reading 253 Assessment due
April 19 Forming relationships and links
April 21 Paths and structure
April 26 Decision Trees and the IF Walkthrough in Tinderbox.
April 28 Moving to Completion.  Sharing your document in Emberlight.
May 3 Uploads and discussion. Linking Ideas Assessment due in Emberlight May 3
May 5 Subject discussion for Trend Watch Presentation. Project Proposal due Third Trend Watch Report
May 10 Solving problems
May 17th: 10-12PM Past, Present, and Future Presentations Oral Presentations.  ePortfolios complete.