January 18, 2008 Archives

On your blog, post a comprehensive, detailed, richly-linked blog entry designed to generate discussion about a topic related to your term paper. I'd like you to think of the oral presentation as the more daring, hipper cousin of your buttoned-down and formal term paper. Try out an idea you don't fully understand yourself. If you're still trying to make up your mind about something, try to do that here.

To submit your work, post a link from this page to the URL of your entry.

The idea is to post an original essay on your site, full of links to good material online (such as interviews with game designers, newspaper stories or academic articles, screenshots, perhaps videos of people playing the game(s) you're focusing on), all coming together to teach the class an important concept. 

Don't spend time summarizing what you find elsewhere in the internet -- make your point as efficiently as possible, and link to where your reader can get the full article you're citing.

Ask questions, spark conversations, teach us something we don't know, demonstrate your ability to apply concepts taken from the course readings (and the maxims such as "all art is constrained" or the mirror/window/lens model).

We've already looked at Leslie's presentation on Lara Croft. That should give you a good idea of what to shoot for.