topics to include
writing – editing for wordiness, organizing paragraphs
working in a team
more readings to give them examples of how to use their data, good writing how to organize paper, and background & theory
that when doing interviews in a group everyone should ask all the questions – you might have 4 questions to ask for your [...]
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thoughts on changing qualitative class for the spring
thoughts about the critical analysis class
Image of Jeannie Novak
gonna use the jeannie novak book – game development essentials
ch1 is history stuff – need a little something for the new students, I found some good extra resources to work in this year but maybe more of the basic info belongs in the intro class and in the analysis class we play [...]
ideas for changing the assignments for next fall g&s class
the big assignment comparing games
think it needs to be 2 or three specific assignments – turn in the game one, thent he videogame one, then for the final do a comparison, maybe half hte class is doing the board games while other half doing the videogames and then we flip to spread out the use [...]
Ideas for G&S class next fall
I want to start a videogames news page on the parkgameportal.com
The freshmen will add info to the news page – news stories interviews, videos
Then the juniors in the biz and law/ethics classes can add to it, add different insghts
WOuld be a way to network, to show passion for hte industry, to get stuff to talk [...]
ideas for the fun and games Senior seminar
think we’re going to look at fun as a media effect, use the psychology of entertainment book as a basic text and the theory of fun as kind of a quick read intro to the idea
psych of entertainment by Bryant and Vorderer
also Media Entertainment by Zillman & Vorderer
also chapters from media effects books and the [...]
4 weeks are over
And I’m pretty sure folks aren’t reading the homework. So gota work in quizzes and reading updates I think. And I have to start calling on people by name and giving them points (or not if they can’t answer)
We started playing board games – and they hadn’t read the instructions – maybe ya can’t read [...]
class so far – end of first week
it was a short week – started school on wednesday. Week 2 will be short too because of Labor Day.Guess we’re going to just ease into the semester. Good thing too since I needed to finish up my tenure file and it’s just too nice to think about papers and assignments.
The first day we played [...]
