Course Calendar

Calendar
Date Description Assessment
Sept 3 New Media Concepts Introduction. Important relationships.
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.
Sept 10 The Memex continued. The new media wiki continued. Amazon.com as New Media system.
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.
Sept 22 More Tinderbox work. Mapping Space assignment due.
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.
Oct 6 Read and play Zork online. Zork discussion.
Oct 8 Building IF: mapping.
Oct 13 Interactions
Oct 13 Decorating
Oct 15 Interactive Fiction: building alternative outcomes.
Oct 20 In-class review of interactive fictions. Weblog journal review.
Oct 22 Film Editing and Perceptual Frames. IF project due. Interactive Fiction
Oct 27 Digital storytelling project overview.
Oct 29 Digital storytelling project overview.
Nov 3 Managing artifacts
Nov 5 Digital Storytelling review.
Nov 10 Social Software. Digital storytelling project due. Weblog journal review. Digital Story
Nov 12 Managing projects on Facebook.
Nov 17 Social Software continued
Nov 24 Game: Concepts. In-class game variation. Game design 101.
Dec 1 Games: Early Console treatments.
Dec 3 Games continued
Dec 8 Games: Contemporary treatments
Dec 10 Game design completions.
Dec 15 Games: Continued. Major Game Variation assignment due. Weblog journal review. Game Design 101
Dec 17 Review and Projects Demonstrations