| Date |
Description |
Assessment |
| Sept 3 |
New Media Concepts Introduction. Important relationships. |
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| Sept 8 |
Harold and the Purple Crayon as New Media system. Vannevar Bush and the Memex. Read as As We May Think. The new media wiki. |
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| Sept 10 |
The Memex continued. The new media wiki continued. Amazon.com as New Media system. |
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| Sept 15 |
Hypermedia and Hypertext. The writerly, readerly text. Forms of News assignment due. Read about thirty minutes of a Show of Hands and A Sky of Cinders. |
Forms of News |
| Sept 17 |
Working with Tinderbox as a hypertext tool. |
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| Sept 22 |
More Tinderbox work. Mapping Space assignment due. |
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| Sept 24 |
Developing your hypertext. Mapping Space assignment due. |
Mapping Space |
| Sept 29 |
Finalizing and exporting your hypertext on the web. Weblog journal review. |
Hypertext Project |
| Oct 1 |
Interactive Fiction: system introduction and examples. The Window Exercise. |
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| Oct 6 |
Read and play Zork online. Zork discussion. |
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| Oct 8 |
Building IF: mapping. |
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| Oct 13 |
Interactions |
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| Oct 13 |
Decorating |
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| Oct 15 |
Interactive Fiction: building alternative outcomes. |
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| Oct 20 |
In-class review of interactive fictions. Weblog journal review. |
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| Oct 22 |
Film Editing and Perceptual Frames. IF project due. |
Interactive Fiction |
| Oct 27 |
Digital storytelling project overview. |
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| Oct 29 |
Digital storytelling project overview. |
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| Nov 3 |
Managing artifacts |
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| Nov 5 |
Digital Storytelling review. |
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| Nov 10 |
Social Software. Digital storytelling project due. Weblog journal review. |
Digital Story |
| Nov 12 |
Managing projects on Facebook. |
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| Nov 17 |
Social Software continued |
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| Nov 24 |
Game: Concepts. In-class game variation. Game design 101. |
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| Dec 1 |
Games: Early Console treatments. |
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| Dec 3 |
Games continued |
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| Dec 8 |
Games: Contemporary treatments |
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| Dec 10 |
Game design completions. |
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| Dec 15 |
Games: Continued. Major Game Variation assignment due. Weblog journal review. |
Game Design 101 |
| Dec 17 |
Review and Projects Demonstrations |
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