Have you noticed that the course is structured in four parts? Next week we finish up the first part:
>>>WHAT DOES FUN REALLY MEAN?
And then we will begin the second part:
Each part ends with turning in a logbook, to summarize the experiences that make up that part of the class. This first part is made up of readings & prototypings. The up-coming second part will conclude with Con #1 too.
The third part will begin with you-all running the class! And conclude with Con #2:
And the final part will finish up the website prototypings as well as the final learning analysis and final logbook.
Notice that EXPERIENCES that include making things are the unit for learning (and grading) here! you cannot just turn in products and fulfill the requirements of the class. Attendance is crucial because every class contributes something to the collection of experiences that make up this course.
And caring matters! The last part is:
>>>HOW WE CARE FOR AND WITH PLAY
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<Do you know how to access electronic reserves? For instructions, scroll to the end of the <Books> tab!
· Pearce, Communities, Ch 3 & 14 (electronic reserves)
· King, Virtual worlds: http://grrrlingitinsl.blogspot.com/ & Tranimal: http://sltranimal.blogspot.com/
· Pick a post from Not Your Mama’s Gamer to tie in with what you read in Pearce and King
· Optional: use index in Pearce to look up more about avatars
· LOOK FOR THE REED ESSAY BY EMAIL FOR NEXT WEEK!! be sure you have received this!
Who are these avatars? When are they us? How do we know? Connect your experiences with avatars with the readings for this week. How do they offer us distributed being, and what are other ways in which we experience that all the time? Embodiment is not just inside of skin…. How does that matter?
Thursday 19 September, Prototyping: an Identities & Avatars poster
· LOGBOOK 1, DUE TODAY IN CLASS IN HARD COPY & ALSO SENT ELECTRONICALLY to katiekin@gmail.com ; use filename <yrlastname> 468 logbook1. Subject header <yrlastname> 468 logbook1.
· BRING IN NOTES AND PRINTOUT IMAGES FROM THE WEB with an eye to your own timelines & stories about political identities and also avatars, how these do and do not line up, what you learn differently from each, how they are created, constrained and altered. We need all this and your crafty gear for our prototyping today!
Our third “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS!
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Some of my fav pics of me/avatar in SL: ===
how I started off:
Until my friend Cadence got me to customize my avatar.... (@ her Cafe in SL):
...and loving my dog/AI agent Sau....
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BIG QUESTIONS FOR THE DURATION OF OUR COURSE!
- Who are these people and avatars?
- Who am I?
- How do we fit into social structures?
- How are we affected by inequalities & oppression?
- What privileges keep us from understanding realities?
- What is identity politics, and what does it mean in US feminism?
- How does our everyday lived experience offer ways of understanding of systems of oppression?
- How is women's studies an agent in these understandings?
- What is intersectionality?
LINKS THAT HELP US FIGURE THINGS OUT:
How Stuff Works: What is social identity? (popular uses)
Portal:Feminism (Wikipedia's feminist resources dynamically edited)
All Politics is Identity Politics (progressive political uses of term, electoral)
Identity Politics: (Wikipedia entry)
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Send to katiekin@gmail.com (NOTE KIN NOT KING!)
file name: YOURLASTNAME 468 proto3
subject header: YOURLASTNAME 468 proto3
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