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WHAT DOES FUN REALLY MEAN?
Tuesday 3 Sept – Welcome to Our Course!
· HANDED OUT: Syllabus Part One, Schedule first bit, How to Read (also on website for download as well, check the <About> tab for links)
· CLASS BUDDIES, CLASS WEBSITE, SMART PHONES?
· Intro to course texts. Bring all the books you have so far!
· Vered, selection from “Beyond Barbie” – on course website <Home> tab, read before class if possible. Free Scribd Mobile app: http://www.scribd.com/about
We will start off making class buddies, interviewing each other, and otherwise beginning to create ourselves as a community of intellectual friends. With a classmate generate a list of questions to ask each other about topics that you hope to make part of this class, and take notes on your responses to share with everyone. We will also read and discuss Vered’s selection on “The Girl Question in Gaming.” What does Vered's feminist analysis from the nineties (embedded in class site) have to say about feminist learning, play, games, and virtual worlds today? What is different now? Which of these questions have been taken up? How are we thinking of these same issues today? What does Vered tell us about what we call making and coding today? How do your own histories of play, games, computers, feminisms, everyday life, technologies and media participate in such questions?
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• with a classmate generate a list of questions to ask each other about topics that you hope to make part of this class, and take notes on your responses to share with everyone
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What does Vered's feminist analysis from the nineties (embedded below) have to say about feminist learning, play, games, and virtual worlds today? What is different now? Which of these questions have been taken up? How are we thinking of these same issues today? What does Vered tell us about what we call making and coding today? How do your own histories of play, games, computers, feminisms, everyday life, technologies and media participate in such questions?
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You will notice that Katie reads with a pencil in hand, annotating and coding her text, making reading an interactive process! You can do this too! An invaluable discussion of this and other academic practices for reading in handout on HowTo Read (it's not so obvious!).
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What does Vered's feminist analysis from the nineties (embedded below) have to say about feminist learning, play, games, and virtual worlds today? What is different now? Which of these questions have been taken up? How are we thinking of these same issues today? What does Vered tell us about what we call making and coding today? How do your own histories of play, games, computers, feminisms, everyday life, technologies and media participate in such questions?
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You will notice that Katie reads with a pencil in hand, annotating and coding her text, making reading an interactive process! You can do this too! An invaluable discussion of this and other academic practices for reading in handout on HowTo Read (it's not so obvious!).
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