New Essay over at TWC Posted
30/03/09 00:04 Filed in: Publications
My essay, “The everyday lives of video game developers: Experimentally understanding underlying systems/structures,” is live over at Transformative Works and Cultures. The editors and reviewers at TWC were excellent and I’d recommend that other scholars of new media look at it as a venue. The citation for this essay is:
Spring 2009 Syllabi Online
08/01/09 11:15 Filed in: Courses
Updated syllabi are online for my two spring courses. TELE-5990 is a special topics course on videogames and NMIX-4110 is the introductory level “new media production” class. The NMIX syllabus can also be found on the MyNMI website. The NMIX course is a prerequisite to the NMIX capstone course, which I will be running next fall. The only difficult aspect of all of this is that there are three sections of the 4110 course with 15 students per class. The capstone however, can at most only handle 25 students. Obviously the mathematics of that doesn’t completely work out, which means that many NMI students will have to “apply” to the capstone course. The upside is that we’ll get some of the best students in the capstone class. The downside is that some students will find themselves having a difficult time completing the NMI certificate.
I tend to think that this is simply more motivation for students to push themselves to produce quality work in 4110.
I tend to think that this is simply more motivation for students to push themselves to produce quality work in 4110.
Online Honesty, Plagiarism, and Attendance Policy
07/01/09 12:19 Filed in: Courses
In an effort to streamline my workflow, and a whole lot of other day-to-day tasks of being a professor, I put the Honesty, Plagiarism, and Attendance Policy Agreement form online this semester. This should make it easier to manage this kind of data along with student response. Anything to avoid paperwork and paper shuffling. Now if only I could figure out a good way of taking attendance with a system like this...
More Homepage Updates
07/01/09 12:15 Filed in: General
I realized over the break that the main page of my website doesn’t get nearly enough updates. So in an effort to change that I’m switching over the front page to something that demands updates a bit more often. Of course I update my blog the most often, but the front page deserves a little more love than I give it currently.