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ENG 329 3.F: Kalman as Affective Artist

Today’s Plan: Listening to Kalman (15 minutes) Elements of her Process (15 minutes) Reading (8 minutes) Free Writing (8 minutes) Homework In today’s class I want to work out a bit more what we might mean by “affective object.” We’ll … Continue reading

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ENG 329 3.W: First Projects, What is Affect?

Today’s Plan: Watch Project One Videos Project Two Timeline What is Affect? Homework What is Affect? For the rest of the week I’d like to take a short break from discussing cinematography and technology and lay some aesthetic foundations for … Continue reading

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ENG 225 3.W: Sicart Analysis Paper

Today’s Plan: Calendar Update Games and Gaming Journal Review Sicart Questions Finalize Game Choice Homework Calendar Update Let me map out the rest of Project One. Friday, January 25th: Review Sicart papers. Homework: Play your game and write in your … Continue reading

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ENG 201 3.W: Report/Proposal Assignment

Today’s Plan: Check in on job lists and job sheet Project 2 Assignment Sheet Homework Job Lists and Sheet Let’s take a look. As you will see in a minute, every job in the sheet needs to be categorized as … Continue reading

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ENG 225 2.F: Let’s Talk Writing

Today’s Plan: Sicart Review Paper Writing Rubric Sample Paper Evaluation Sicart Review Paper Your first writing assignment will be due before our next class session on Tuesday, January 22nd at midnight. This will give me some opportunity to review the … Continue reading

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ENG 329 2.W: Wrestling with Adobe Premiere

Today’s Plan: Navigating Adobe Premiere Adobe Clasroom in a Book discussion Homework Navigating Adobe Premiere I emailed out a .zip file with the class notes. To begin, download an unzip those files. We will be editing them in class. At … Continue reading

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ENG 201 2.M: Miller’s “A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Communication”

Today’s plan: Office Hours Jobs Can Be Scary Discuss Miller Homework Carolyn Miller’s “A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing” Some questions: What is positivism? Why is it a problem for technical writing? What does Miller identify as the most problematic … Continue reading

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ENG 329 1.W: Remediation Project

Today’s Plan: Watch some introductions Introduce Project 1: Remediation Play with Photoshop Homework What is Remediation? In their now classic work on digital textuality, Remediation, Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin build on the work of canonical media theorist Marshall McLuhan. … Continue reading

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ENG 225 1.W: Introduction to Ethics

Today’s Plan: Office Hours Introduction to Ethics / Project One Setting Up a Google Doc Homework Introduction to Ethics Today I want to give some sense of what constitutes ethics. I’ll start by attempting to differentiate ethics from morals. Both … Continue reading

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ENG 225 1.M: First Day

Today’s Plan: Syllabus: Required Materials Let’s Talk About GamesArt Homework Let’s Talk About Games and Art This is the third time I’ve taught this course. The previous two times, I opened with a project built around Roger Ebert’s tired article … Continue reading

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