games & lives across time and technology

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Thursday 19 September, Prototyping: a Timelines poster, your experiences with games

·       BRING IN NOTES AND PRINTOUT IMAGES FROM THE WEB with an eye to your own timelines & stories about games and gaming, those of your friends, maybe parents, what you know about the histories of women and technologies in timelines.

·       The syllabus has links, see <books> tab, like a timeline for video games, and other stuff. Check those out and come up with some more to share. We need all this for our prototyping today!

Our second “flipping the classroom” Thursday! You MUST BE PREPARED so we can spend our time MAKING THINGS! Google around before you come to class! Bring in pics and notes! 

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some resources:

Video Games: Timeline | Infoplease.com 

Timeline of women in computing from Wikipedia (scroll down)

FEMICOM, the feminine computer museum

Do Girls Play Computer Games? (Serious Games 2009)

A history of the computer game (Jesper Juul's MA thesis 1999/2001)

Gaming: Geek Feminism

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More cool timelines! http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html

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Katie begins an online timeline at Tiki-Toki: http://www.tiki-toki.com

http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/165265/subject-in-history/#vars!date=1927-05-11_00:00:00!  
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Katie starts gathering notes, pics, links:

my bits and pieces!

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Edward Pickering and his female assistants, known as the “Harvard computers.”

Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/09/the-women-who-mapped-the-universe-and-still-couldnt-get-any-respect/#ixzz2fLZzzVUp 
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take a digital pic of your poster
name the pic file: <yourlastname> 468 proto2
send it to Katie on gmail: katiekin@gmail.com (NOT KING)
subject header: <yourlastname> 468 proto2

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