At 10:30 AM Mon 01 Feb, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Latin vs. Anglo-Saxon" -- "The words derived from Latin are the enemy--they will strangle and suffocate everything you write. The Anglo-Saxon words will set you free...--Zinsser, "Writing English as a Second Language"Reading this brought me back to a topic I discussed in "
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At 6:41 PM Sun 31 Jan, MeganSeigh updated MeganSeigh [Entries: 54]
"" -- "I don't think I could live the kind of life that the Amish live but I would like to start doing it justice.  After reading Howard Rheingold's essay titled "Look Whose Talking," from "Writing Material," I was reminded of a..."
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At 12:59 PM Sun 31 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"TechKnow" -- "What kind of person am I becoming as a result of all this stuff?--Howard Rheignold's "Look Who's Talking" in Writing MaterialI've found myself asking this question a lot more frequently over the past few years. I can honestly say that..."
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At 12:13 PM Thu 28 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Wanna remember something? Write it down." -- ""...for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves."--Plato in MW, pg 362In Plato's Phaedrus, h"
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At 10:56 AM Thu 28 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Two Translations--Two opportunities" -- "Including two translations from the Illiad was a smart move. It shows how different, and yet the same, a passage can be translated. Even though the Lattimore translation was a lengthier and more complex reading, it's hard to say whether or..."
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At 10:30 AM Thu 28 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"It's all about control" -- "In each writing technology and in each text, the question is: how and to what extend does the writer control the reader's experience of reading?Bolter in WM, pg 77I really never thought of the how much control the writer actually..."
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At 3:44 PM Wed 27 Jan, MeganSeigh updated MeganSeigh [Entries: 54]
"Plato's Ingenius Discovery" -- ""But when they came to the letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit" (Plato, 361, Writing Material).Socrates is explaining to Phaedrus..."
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At 3:18 PM Wed 27 Jan, MeganSeigh updated MeganSeigh [Entries: 54]
"Homer and the Iliad" -- "I could not help but not entirely read the ancient Greek version of the passage from Homer's Iliad.  I tried to identify some of the letters (or symbols) that looked similar.  When I read the Lattimore version of the poem,..."
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At 2:45 PM Wed 27 Jan, MeganSeigh updated MeganSeigh [Entries: 54]
"Spoken Word vs the Written Word" -- "When reading in Writing Materials, I think the few points that Jay David Bolter brought up about oral and print communication reflect the discussions we had in class about how they are different and what the benefits and downfalls are...."
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At 11:15 PM Tue 26 Jan, MeganSeigh updated MeganSeigh [Entries: 54]
"English is not so Ordinary" -- "I never thought to blame the Latin language.William Zinsser writes, "I'm sure all of you, newly arrived in America, have already been driven crazy trying to figure out the instructions for ordering a cell phone or connecting your computer, or..."
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At 12:18 PM Tue 26 Jan, AjaHannah updated AjaHannah [Entries: 197]
"The Zinsser Approach" -- ""But I'm hopelessly in love with English because it's plain and it's strong. It has a huge vocabulary of words that have precise shades of meaning..." I am hopelessly in love with English, that much I have to agree with,..."
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At 12:23 PM Sun 24 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Article Presentation" -- "The discussion on Mortensen prompted me to take a closer look into blogging. My original entry looked at blogging from my point of view. The second part of my entry was on mutual fantasy online gaming. I did not feel..."
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At 11:43 PM Sat 23 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Video Game Violence Presentation...again" -- "This is a smaller version of the same video...you can probably just play the audio while watching the bigger youtube video if you guys are still interested :-)tiny.3gp EL 250..."
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At 1:49 PM Fri 22 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"EL 250 Portfolio 3" -- "Ah the end at last...This last group of entries deals mostly with the Peer-led discussions with a few entries that were class topics. I linked to several of my peers blogs in this portfolio to emphasize my contribution to the..."
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At 4:35 AM Fri 22 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Violent Video Games Presentation" -- "For those of you who read my rough draft, I tweaked my research topic a little to focus more on whether or not violent video games really do affect kids and decided to argue that we need to enforce the..."
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At 8:45 PM Thu 21 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"FarmVille vs. Harvest Moon" -- "Ahh Farmville...I wish I could say that I resisted jumping on the band wagon with this one, but that's simply not the case. Although it did take me a while to finally give in, once I did, I was hooked...."
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At 5:38 PM Thu 21 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Social Networks and Games" -- "I personally do not like the idea of games like Farmville on a social network. All it does is draws in a large populatioon from a particular site until something better comes along. I played the everso popular Mafia Wars..."
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At 1:08 PM Thu 21 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Portfolio 3 Video Games are More than Meets the Eye" -- "EL 250 has been very fast-paced and informative. The instructor, Dr. Jerz, has taken his students to new levels of learning through video games. During the last wee, students have written a term paper (draft), discussed Grimes with Susan Carmichael,."
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At 11:18 AM Thu 21 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Student Presentations" -- "My presentation takes a closer look at women and how they are viewed by society and the mass media market, especially video games. I chose to do my presentation on women and video games, how culture reflects upon them. I..."
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At 11:30 PM Wed 20 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Modding...Sims Style" -- "As soon as I read the intro to Dr. Jerz's Modding, Machinima, and Motion Capture, I immediately thought of The Sims, but not for the reasons Dr. Jerz included in his introduction. The Sims really was my introduction into Modding...."
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At 1:20 PM Wed 20 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Motion Capturing" -- "I like the idea of motion capturing. It is a new technology that is state of the art. You see a lot of it in movies. The graphics are so life-like. I think that it is with these new types..."
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At 10:25 AM Wed 20 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"A future for Indie Games?" -- "Off hand, I can't think of any indie games that I've played. This isn't to say that I haven't played one--maybe I just didn't know it was an indie game while I was playing it. Because I've never played one, I..."
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At 5:51 PM Tue 19 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Wilson with (Cody)" -- "I have in fact played an indie game before for the Xbox 360. It was a rip-off of Tony Hawk called Skate. The premise was the same, but there was more detail and variations to Tony Hawk. I began to..."
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At 1:14 PM Tue 19 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Gaming Reflects Who You Are" -- "Most of the multiplayer games I play are war games. I don't respond the same way in these games as I might in the real world. I typically play games like Gears of War and Halo in co-op mode instead..."
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At 12:35 PM Tue 19 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Children's Online Gaming--Anything but Childish" -- "In response to reading Grimes' article, "Terms of Service and Terms of Playing Children's Online Gaming, I feel rather appalled, because of the extent at which marketing companies are taking advantage of children.In response to Susan's Discussion que"
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At 1:30 AM Tue 19 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Eladhari with (Keith)" -- "The last game I played mulltiplayer was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I played the "Kill em' all mode" which is a free for all. The last person standing wins. Not really wins but, gains a higher status and..."
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At 1:07 AM Tue 19 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Grimes with (Susan) " -- "1. I have a huge problem with not paying attention to contracts. This in turn gets me into trouble. When you do not read the terms of service, you are adhering to all the terms without notice. Therefore, a contract..."
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At 10:51 PM Mon 18 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Scratch that Itch..." -- "After watching Dr. Jerz's tutorial videos for Scratch, I can't help but think back yet again to our days of Interactive Fiction coding in EL 236. Would coding for an IF game be simpler if someone already learned basic coding..."
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At 1:37 PM Sun 17 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Scratch " -- "I think that a design program like Scratch is great. It gives children and adults the chance to express themselves creatively while becoming informed on design. Scratch is also great because it is more than just playing a game, it's..."
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At 12:42 AM Sat 16 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Questions" -- "A few questions I came up with about blogging. A fairly new concept, what are your expectations for blogging? What was your first exposure to blogging? How different is blogging in college from high school, if mandatory? What ae your..."
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At 12:30 AM Sat 16 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Jessie and Matt" -- "Matt- The platform that I choose to be my favorite is the Xbox 360. There is a reason behind this. I was a Playstation gamer for years. Nobody could get me away from it. I was then exposed to the..."
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At 10:37 AM Fri 15 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Educational Entertainment" -- " "People who grew up with games are now entering positions of power, and they're saying, why shouldn't we embrace games?"--Jenkins, in The Serious Business of Serious Games by David M. EwaltI love this quote. He's so right! I don't..."
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At 10:02 AM Fri 15 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Taylor Discussion Intro" -- "Further, moost academic game studies have examined only the cultures present in multiplayer games, rather than including the large gaming communities that are formed around single-player games as these cultures begin and develop in online discussion "
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At 11:11 PM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"EL 250 Portfolio 2" -- "So here we are, at the end of week 2 and we've learned and applied so much! Although we're starting to move into the more research-oriented portion of the class, I'm still happy to say that the coursework is very..."
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At 3:21 PM Thu 14 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"Portfolio 2: Middle of the road for games in society" -- "EL 250 has gotten off to a good start. The commenting on the readings has kept up, and participation is high. This portfolio 2 contains the second week of the course. So far, this week we have studied the remainder..."
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At 3:06 PM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Video Games Aren't Training Our Kids To Kill" -- "Grossman describes contemporary first-person shooters as "murder simulators," suggesting that since the military uses such games to train troops to kill, they serve the same pedagogical functions in everyday life.--In>>Sight Vol. 3, 2003I remem"
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At 3:09 PM Thu 14 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 James Gee" -- "Implementing learning into children seems that there is a scientific approach to it. A competitive means to a simple idea. But my thought after reading and listening to the assigned readings and videos, are children the guinea pigs for the..."
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At 2:45 PM Thu 14 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Squire and Jenkins" -- ""Card’s school is a constructivist utopia in that nobody teaches kids what to do in these games; they are left on their own to experiment and solve compelling problems, and as they do so, they master strategies and tactics they..."
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At 2:52 PM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Games & Learning--Endless Possibilities." -- "What can we learn from games about creating better learning systems for kids?--James Gee on Games and LearningIt's so refreshing to see that people like James Gee are really pursuing the idea that games have so much to offer for the..."
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At 2:32 PM Thu 14 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Education and Games" -- ""And of course, perhaps the biggest reason why games are getting serious is that the “Super Mario Generation” is coming of age. Gaming is as familiar a medium to them as television, film, or books, so it’s only natural that..."
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At 12:04 PM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
""Just for Kicks and Giggles" " -- "This morning, while catching up on some of my commenting, I had Facebook open in another window while I worked diligently. One of my friends, who's an avid gamer, messaged me complaining that he was bored in class. I told..."
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At 11:17 AM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"What if God was one of Us?" -- "Similar to The Sims, in that the player acts as "God," Lionhead Studios' Black and White takes players into the realm of Eden, where they are faced with endless opportunity. In a previous blog, I showed the intro to the game..."
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At 10:52 AM Thu 14 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Personal Blogs--Public Diaries" -- "While I can see the value of them, I don't want the hazzle of maintaining and editing a blog where I need to check to see what others have written into it. I treasure my peaceful little slog on the..."
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At 11:08 PM Wed 13 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Thanks for the Good Advice!" -- "The art of personal storytelling is still alive in some ethnic and regional cultures, and the practice of live storytelling as concert-style entertainment has gained popularity in recent years. --Laurel, pg. 61It's a shame that personal story te"
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At 10:06 PM Wed 13 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Finely-Tuned Extended Play" -- "I decided to play Fine Tuned as my extended game play again like I did a year and a half ago, because I'm determined to make it further than I did last year. With the help of Dr. Jerz's comment..."
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At 9:02 PM Wed 13 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"IF Experience" -- "I remember doing this exercise back in EL 236, so I decided to try some new games, as well as one of the games I've played before. I chose to play:Fine Tuned--I remembered some of the beginning, but I was still..."
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At 8:30 PM Wed 13 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Torill Mortensen " -- "I would of loved to see the faces of students when she walked through the door after sending her nasty comments in email(s). After reading the blog, I'd say that I havwe to agree with Mortensen. I feel that a..."
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At 8:17 PM Wed 13 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"Review of a Review" -- "Wait a minute... I'm supposed to "enter" the race by pressing the space bar. Okay... gotta remember that.  (Is that what the problem was?)--Jerz, Fatworld ReviewAs I began to read Dr. Jerz's review of Fatworld, I grew interested enough"
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At 7:56 PM Wed 13 Jan, JeremyBarrick updated JeremyBarrick [Entries: 359]
"EL 250 Open Choice " -- "I want to show that the "classic" game of Pac-Man helps improve motorskils and memorizartion of patterns. Pac-Man may be contrued by some of being a "simple game", but when looked at closely, it carries a lot more weight than..."
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At 6:52 PM Wed 13 Jan, JessieKrehlik updated Jessie Krehlik [Entries: 232]
"War & Peace" -- "Games are immersive, which means that they are capable of transporting users into compelling virtual environments. They are intensely engaging, provoking states of intense concentration that can last for hours on end. They foster intense identif"
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