April 27, 2006
Reminder: Don't miss Jim Barrett's lecture on friday 13.15!
see the schedule and blog post from April 18 for details!
Posted by top at 12:06 AM
April 26, 2006
Ass 2 reminder and discussion schedule
Dear New Medians,
1) Don't forget the deadline for delivering draft reports of your ass 2's:
Monday May 1 23.59
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/assignment2.html
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/schedule.html
2) The order at the obligatory ass 2 feedback event is now published on the course schedule:
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/schedule.html#ass2discussion
Be there and be in time. You only have 10 minutes to get feedback on your ass 2 draft reports from me.
Posted by top at 11:17 PM
April 18, 2006
The Computer Technician as Author
The Computer Technician as Author
Jim Barrett's New Media guest lecture next friday (April 28)
Time and place: Friday 28th of April, 13.15-15.00 in MC333
Abstract:
Constructing something that tells a story is very much at home in computer science. But what should one consider when one (tries to) communicate/s using new media? Working from the concepts of: Literacy Narrative Reading Rhetoric Art I will introduce some of the parameters of the computer technician as author.
Suggested Readings:
GAME DESIGN AS NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE
by Henry Jenkins http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/games&narrative.html
IMAGINING GAMEPLAY: THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SPATIAL WORLDS by Bernadette Flynn http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/research/papers/imaging_gameplay.pdf
Materiality is the Message
Review of: N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines. Mediawork Pamphlet.
Cambridge: MIT P, 2002. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v014/14.1doughty.html
Posted by top at 03:22 PM
April 13, 2006
check out the assignment results!
In the email I have sent to all of you regarding the results of ass 1 I forgot to mention that all data with regards to the assignments (1 2 and 3) will from now on be visible on the results page.
Posted by top at 06:44 PM
General comments on your ass 1 submissions
These comments are a) to be reviewed by you before resubmitting your ass 1 reports (those of you who got an "O", meaning that the report is incomplete), b) to be reviewed by all of you before submitting your ass 2 and ass 3 work.
1) Spell check.
2) Use figures, photos, and tables when appropriate. Especially for summarizing important sections of your document. Sometimes a picture or a table can really say a lot.
3) Make sure the following is included in the very beginning of your report: your full names, _CS_ email addresses (_not_ your yahoo addresses or whatever other email addresses you might have), assignment number, document title, course name, and submission date.
4) Make sure to have a proper reference list in the end of your document to which you refer to from within the text in order to strengthen your argumentation. The reader has to convince the critical reader of your documents about your opinions. Without references to other people and invetsigations that stregthens your points, and/or without a proper argumentation why things should be done in the way you think (or why they are like the way you say they are) your work will have low value scientifically.
5) Your submission should be in an open "online" format, i.e. HTML, PHP, etc. The only exception is PDF which can be considered an offline format but is still acceptable based on its wide use on the web and the fact that readers are free. Microsoft Word is _not_ OK as a submission format.
Posted by top at 03:22 PM
April 10, 2006
Ass 2 and 3 reports should be written in English, Ass 1 pretty free choice
As I mentioned on Friday's lecture, ass 2 and 3 should be written in English language since it will be read and listened to by all course attendees. The language of ass 1 can be in any language the teacher understands which this year means either Swedish, English, German or Italian.
Posted by top at 04:40 PM
April 07, 2006
Welcome to the course blog!
I have now given all people on the updated participants list...
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/participants.html
... access to the course blog.
All of you should now have the possibility to create new blog entries as well as commenting on existing ones.
To post a comment on an existing entry, just go to the course homepage and click on "comments" below the entry you want to comment on: http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/
To create a new entry, click on "L O G I N" on the course homepage
http://www.cs.umu.se/kurser/TDBD07/VT06/courseblog/
...and click on "Create Entry".
Your user name is the same as your CS username, e.g. "dit01xcz" Your personal password is set to the same as your username. Please change it the first time you log in. Note: those of you who have attended blogged courses before at CS have the same passwords as you had for the blog on previous courses.
Whenever you feel that a question you have might be of interest to other students, consider putting it up on the blog rather than just sending me an email. I get email about everything that gets blogged anyway and will answer blogged questions just as I answer emailed ones, with the difference that blogged ones are available to anyone to see.
Ah, and the blog language is English. Try to use English also in the emails to me.
Posted by top at 06:18 PM
April 03, 2006
slides for lectures 1 2 and 3 updated
I have done some small changes to the slides belonging to the lectures on tuesday and wednesday, accessible from the schedule. In case someone has downloaded these files before today, you should know that they have been (slightly) changed.
Posted by top at 05:39 PM
Lecture on wednesday at 15.15-17.00 (not 13.15-15.00)
There was an error in the schedule which has now been corrected: The lecture this wednesday will be at 15.15-17.00 (and not 13.15-15.00). The location is unchanged, MC333.
Posted by top at 12:04 PM