End-of-Semester Self Assessment

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Micro-Writing 5: Project Plan

Micro-writing 5: Project Plan Planning a project is an important part of the research process – particularly when multiple researchers are involved. Please create a project plan that responds to each of the points outlined below, as well as others that your group may identify independently. Your audience for this plan is me. How you…

Research Proposal Topic

Do you remember your days in the public school system? What subjects do you think were more highly valued? What were some of your worst and best memories associated with the public school system? How highly do you think that America, Alaska, Fairbanks, values public education? More specifically, why is public education one of the…

Capstone: Digital Storytelling

Tell us a story.   For this capstone project, you will work in small groups to create digital stories of Fairbanks for a Fairbanks audience. We will work as a class and with members of the Fairbanks community to choose the stories we’ll tell. What stories need to be told? What stories could we tell…

Electronic Literature

Creation Subgenre: Video Games. An interesting topic that is being discussed in the field of digital literature is the question of whether video games are included under the digital literature umbrella. Dr. Alistair Brown, Durham University, presents an interesting viewpoint, “…Actually, I think it is pretty clear that video games are not literature…’ He goes…

Revision for Electronic Literature on Wikipedia

Capstone 1 Part 1 — Creation Debates on e-lit The definitions offered about electronic literature are vague and broad. Katherine Hayles argues in Electronic Literature: What Is It that “electronic literature is ‘digital born.” Even the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) states electronic literature “refers to works that takes advantage of the capabilities of a computer.’…

Electronic Literature in Wiki

Part 1 Create: The Reader and the Writer of Electronic Literature Electronic literature opened up a whole new way of reading. It puts literature into a digital form, allowing the writer to add things that the reader can interact with as they read. This genre of literature is meant to be read on an electronic…

Capstone 1

Wiki edit of Notable People and Works There are a number of notable authors, critics, and works associated with electronic literature. Michael Joyce’s Afternoon, a story is known as the first hypertext fiction, although this has been disputed,[11] and Stuart Moulthrop’s Victory Garden is another notable work of electronic literature. Other particularly interesting and noteworthy…

What Constitutes as Electronic Literature? Jimmy Rogers Capstone 1

Jimmy Rogers March 10, 2015 What Constitutes as Electronic Literature? Jimmy Rogers’ Capstone 1, Wikipedia Revision Definitions N. Katherine Hayles discusses the topic in the online article Electronic Literature: What Is It. She argues in her 2008 text Electronic Literature that, “electronic literature, generally considered to exclude print literature that has been digitized, is by…

Games are to Work as Rules are to Play- Cynthia Jones

Mr. Golumbia, the idea, you question in Games without Play; that games need to have a set of rules while also having a flexibility to be play I find intriguing. And if games don’t have that flexibility then it isn’t play. You go beyond that too, asking the question whether or not we actually are…