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Tues Aug 27 – introduction of syllabus and selves
Thurs Aug 29 – Overview: Introduction of interests and skills
- Communicating Climate Change: a psychoanalysis – Science Weekly Podcast , Jan 19, 2017 The Guardian: min 18:55
PODCASTS
HW Audacity Tutorial
- How to record and edit a podcast
- Buzz Sprout Tutorial
- Sign up for Podcast Hosting e.g. on Anchor.fm or Buzz Sprout
Tues Sep 3
- Forest 404 episode 1, lecture 1, soundscape 1
- while you listen
- Podcast Discussion
- Script Concepts
Thurs Sep 5
- Hand in Script
- Sound Booth/Field Recording
- HW – do recording, assemble fx and music – soundsnap.com
Tues Sep 10
- Oceans of Noise – Guardian Podcast
- Podcast Discussion
- Edit project/audacity issues
Thurs Sep 13
- Finish and Post Project – show and tell if time
TWITTER BOTS
HW
- Make Twitter Account for your bot (and optionally flickr account)
- READ Basic TwitterBot Etiquette by Darius Kaemi
- READ This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on twitter.
- Botwiki – pick a bot, follow, be ready with very short oral report
Tues Sep 17
- WATCH Darius Kazemi (~34 mins): Bots Bots Bots
- Discuss Botiquette
- Brainstorm your bot – ecobots?
- HW write short proposal for your twitter bot – 1 page max – 280 characters min(!)
- HW research your tools/method
- Cheapbotsdonequick by George Buckenham using Tracery
- Zack Whalen’s Google Spreadsheets Twitterbot
- Tweepy python library for twitter API, python is on school machines, you will have to make yourself a virtual environment for the tweepy library in your account, ask me for the steps.
- Daniel Shiffman Tutorials Twitter API and Twitter bots
Thurs Sep 17
- Tracery tutorial, Kate Compton’s JavaScript library
- “Hello World” Bot using your chosen tools/method
- HW continue making bot, this includes making profile, header picture and description for the bot’s twitter account
Tues Sep 24
- Research and Present More bots: Literary Bots from the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
- Report progress, troubleshoot problems
Thurs Sep 26
- Finish bot (don’t forget profile background, avatar, bio!)
- Present bot
MOBILE APPS
HW:
- READ: “Mobile Game Design and Zombies, Run!” – p 463-465 Game Design Workshop 3rd Edition by Tracy Fullerton. See hand out, but you can also download the entire pdf of the book
- DOWNLOAD and PLAY Zombies, Run!
- CHOOSE ANY MOBILE APP you use/like/are impressed by – be ready to give short oral report on it
Tues Oct 1
- Discuss reading and apps
- Discuss design choices/rationales
- Brainstorm simple app idea
- – matching goals to abilities
- – setting creative/technical challenge
- Unity 3D – ?
- HW: write up simple app proposal
UB eco app?
Thurs Oct 3
- Unity 3D – building to phone tutorial – simpleMobile App
- Tutorials as per experience/need, eg
- if you have never used unity (don’t need to do any install or install unity hub steps)
- interactive walkthroughs
- first project tutorial
- using the interface
- mobile/touch apps
- and/or google for videos
- if you have never used unity (don’t need to do any install or install unity hub steps)
- Discussion of ideas
HW: Apps/Games from Games For Change – you will be assigned one be ready to report your experience with the game
Tues Oct 8
- Report on game/app you were assigned
- Continue to make your own apps
- Maybe useful
- NK3 tutorial on using UI and canvas
- grab assets (UI buttons etc. for placeholders)
- Unity canvas docs
- script of scene switch
Thurs Oct 10
- Finish and demo apps and/or app designs
AR APPS Tues Oct 15 – Thurs Oct 24
Tues Oct 15
- Playing with lens studio
Thurs Oct 17
- Augmented Reality
- Snapchat – what I found out.
HOMEWORK
- READ Augmented Reality Smart Cities by Ajit Singh
- Download and sorry you can’t play Go Back Fetch It
Tues Oct 22– brainstorming in groups -> AR concept
- MIT Open Doc Lab, Charity Everett talk on Go Back Fetch it
- Artivive AR platform/tool used by Everett
- The Artist’s Role in Augmented Reality (Columbia College Online)
- Artivive at Albertina Museum in Vienna, Monet To Picasso In Augmented Reality
- WebXR API info
Thur Oct 22 – by end of class your group will have AR prototype or design.
HOMEWORK
- read Game Design Workshop, Chapter 6 Conceptualization by Tracy Fullerton pdf emailed to you
- pick a sentence that interests you, be ready to to read it out and say why you think its interesting/important next Tuesday
- note: although Fullerton is focusing on game design, there are enough general principles here to help us whatever we are designing.
FINAL PROJECT Tues Oct 29 – Dec 5
Tues Oct 29
- Discuss Fullerton Essay on concept development
- Go over Final Project Productions steps, deliverables, expectations
- Find a production group or feedback group
HOMEWORK read Fullerton on Design Doc (pdf set to you)
- pick a sentence that interests you, be ready to to read it out and say why you think its interesting/important on Thursday
- note: although Fullerton is focusing on game design, there are enough general principles here to help us whatever we are developing.
Thurs Oct 31
- Fullerton on Design Documents
- Start on brainstorm/design doc/production
- CHECK IN
- meet with group/feedback group to assess your progress
- discuss what is going into the first version of your design doc or your podcast timetable
HOMEWORK
- First step of design doc: at least vision and timetable/weekly goals
Tues 5 Nov
- James Vaughan at Games for Change on Plague
- watch actively: be ready to summarize something he said interested you, and to make a comment (make note)
- Pre-production and Production
- Download Plague for Thursday
Thurs 7 Nov
- Plague
- Pre-production and Production
- CHECK IN
- meet with group/feedback group to assess your progress
- address any updates to design doc that must be made
Tues 12 Nov
- Plague
- Production
Thurs 14 Nov
- Podcasts
- No Country for Young Women (listen for first 2 mins of 32.41)
- Radio Lab
- Production
- CHECK IN
Tues 19 Nov
- CHECK IN
- Post production and Testing
Thurs 21 Nov
- Testing
Tues Nov 26 – ONLINE
- Play Game, write up description using description exercise
- Alpha Beat Cancer – “children’s game demystifies cancer by teaching the terminology and information needed for informed and productive care” (IOS and Android)
- BBC Earth: Life in VR – ” takes the users to the Californian coast, and an underwater world bursting with life.” (Android)
- Climate Defense – “asks the player with preventing global warming by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) ” (Android)
- Dumb Ways to Die – “avoid dangerous situations around trains — and other life-threatening scenarios” (IOS and Android)
- OR
- Watch Video Colonized by Data – Nick Couldry
- Find three points that you are interested in, note time, summarize point the speaker is making, make own coment
- Media TBA
- Revisions
- CHECK IN
Tues Dec 3
- Revisions
Thurs Dec 5
- Final Show/Critiques
- 11:10 Podcasts
- Olivia
- Shawn
- Richard Li
- Rick
- Fred
- Shane
- ~11:40 Presentations
- Gavin
- Sarra?
- ~11:50 Games, apps and bots
- Derek
- Jama
- Jasmine
- Tom
- Carlito
- Sarra
- Nickson and Jessica