| Narrative forms in the Digital Classroom |
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This semester we launched a pilot project,
Worlds of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and
Virtual Reality
(http://worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com/about
), a First Year Writing Seminar at Vanderbilt
University. The mission of this class is
similar to that of courses taught at nearly
all post-secondary educational institutions:
to teach students to think critically and
write effectively beyond the basic
composition level. Our seminar focuses on
how stories change as they cross from one
media to another, from books to films to
online games. We begin with The Lord of the
Rings, a work at the intersection of
canonical literature (Old English texts,
romance conventions, religious and mythical
symbolism), popular culture, and multiple
media formats. Tolkien's novels have been
the inspiration not only for Peter Jackson's
successful films but for a vast array of
games from paper-and-pencil based Dungeons
and Dragons to nearly all of the early MMOs
such as Ultima Online and EverQuest to the
most popular current MMO, World of Warcraft.
In spring 2007, Turbine released Lord of the
Rings Online (LOTRO), the game we have chosen
to represent MMOs in our study.
Juxtaposing a story in three media prompts
questions about such fundamental aspects of
narrative as character, point of view, and
the experience of space and time, as well as
more theoretical considerations such as Who
is the author of an interactive work? How
does the inclusion of sound, graphics, voice,
text, and the ability to move around in a
virtual world alter one's experience of
narrative? and What is one's subject position
in relation to each medium?
At the same time, the project explores the
potential of social networking and other
digital tools for managing course content,
documenting class discussions, facilitating
peer editing, and disseminating
student-created knowledge. The course blends
tools with which students are already
familiar—Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and
podcasts—with freely available productivity
software—Google Documents, Microsoft Live
Office, and iTunes University—to
demonstrate that students are producers as
well as recipients of knowledge. Leveraging
college-age students' pre-existing digital
competencies in the literature classroom has
the potential to encourage active engagement,
group participation, teacher-student
interaction, and connections to real world
contexts.
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| Far Cry 2: Narrative Designer Interview |
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*Watch in High Quality!*
Here Is An Interview From The Narrative
Designer For Far Cry 2, Also Some Gameplay In
This Video Aswell. This Game Is Coming Out
For PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 And PC. Please
Comment And Rate.
PSN - chriswebb95
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| German challenge to Holocaust-Shoah Narrative |
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Dirk Zimmermann is a 36-year-old happily
married family man who challenges Section 130
of the Criminal Code that prohibits doubting
the legally-sanctioned Holocaust-Shoah
narrative. He sent Germar Rudolf's 'Lectures
on the Holocaust' to German public figures,
then turned himself in to the police for
having violated Section 130.
It is a conscious act because Zimmermann
demands he has a right to doubt.
Tags : humanities social science media engineering health communications |
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Durée : 247 s |
| Jimmy Edgar Video Blog Volume 5 The Narrative |
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Jimmy in a voice and music narrative.
jimmyedgar.com
myspace.com/colorstrip
Much like the key in Houdini's mouth, Jimmy
Edgar's presence through presentation remains
safe against his own tongue. Not one to
disarm his own design by exposing its secrets
but rather locking it behind the audience's
attention.Revealing only the art to the
surface without surrendering his creative
darkness by blinding it with a superficial
stage lights glare.
His process remains intimately raw with a
calculated privacy. A precision. Angled with
a sharp sexuality penetrating the focus into
the mind. Now more than ever, with the
upcoming release of Colorstrip, he
establishes himself as one of the most unique
artists around. Like a literal renaissance
man, dripping with every shade of the pantone
wheel in an iridescent chameleon skin. Jimmy
is involved in everything from video
installation work, avant-garde fashion
design, graphic design, painting,
professional fashion photography, and many
other facets.
Jimmy Edgar has perfected the ideal dual
attraction of both a subtlety and
complication. Together they make a
questionable desire even more desperately
intriguing. His is a brilliance that crosses
in between the lines of a geometric balance
and manipulative sensuality. Like a human
alarm clock or a teasing test of time. A bomb
threat set to challenge every minute that
passes with a dangerous charm. But, if you
ask Jimmy himself what it is that moves him
to create, I promise you he will respond with
a modest laugh, and nothing more.
-J Hayes
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Durée : 151 s |
| BMW Efficient Dynamics Narrative |
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BMW EfficientDynamics is a range of related
technologies that reduce fuel consumption and
emissions while simultaneously improving
performance. The programme forms the core of
BMW's ACEA commitment to reduce its average
CO2 emissions across its vehicle range to
140g/km by 2008 (a reduction of approximately
25% compared to 1998). In achieving this, BMW
is helping to shape the future of driving by
pioneering the ultra-efficient engines of
tomorrow.
BMW EfficientDynamics is rolling out across
the BMW model range. These innovative new
technologies are designed to maximise the
efficiency of the internal-combustion engine
and deliver significant environmental and
cost savings to customers, e.g:
• Auto Start-Stop. Stops the engine
automatically whenever the car comes to rest
and is taken out of gear -- for example, at
traffic lights -- and restarts the second the
clutch pedal is depressed, saving fuel and
reducing emissions.
• Intelligent Alternator Control/Brake
Energy Regeneration This monitors battery
condition, engaging the alternator only when
the battery requires recharging. This reduces
the demands on the engine, reducing fuel
consumption and emissions. In addition, when
the car's brakes are applied or when coasting
downhill, this system automatically engages
the alternator to charge the battery,
recycling energy that would otherwise be
wasted.
• Optimum Shift Indicator. This is a small
visual display on the car's instrument
cluster which shows the optimum gear for any
driving situation. This gives drivers the
opportunity to adopt a more fuel-efficient
driving style.
• Lightweight Engineering. The use of
advanced lightweight materials, such as
thermoplastics, aluminium and magnesium
alloy, reduce the overall weight of the
vehicle, enhancing driving dynamics and
improving fuel economy.
• Electric Power Steering. By using an
electric motor to assist the steering, the
system is not only lighter in weight than a
conventional hydraulic power steering,
thereby reducing fuel consumption and
emissions - but assistance can also be varied
to aid the driver at lower speeds.
• Reduced Rolling Resistance Tyres. When a
vehicle is being driven, the tyres are
constantly flexing, a process which uses both
fuel and energy. Special heat-resistant,
anti-distortion materials are used in the
sidewalls and tread of the tyres to reduce
this tyre flexing and therefore lower
emissions and improve fuel economy.
• Low-friction Fluids. Reducing fluid
friction in an engine helps minimise wasted
energy and, consequently, fuel consumption
and emissions. BMW uses low-friction
transmission fluid, engine oil and final
drive fluid to help the vehicle run more
smoothly and efficiently.
• Active Aerodynamics. Actively controlled
air flaps regulate air flow to the engine and
braking systems. By opening and closing these
flaps, the engine is able to reach its
operating temperature quicker, whilst vehicle
drag is also reduced - helping the car move
through the air more easily and reducing fuel
consumption and emissions.
• High-precision Direct Injection. An
enhanced direct fuel injection system
offering an even more precise mix of fuel and
air. The fuel is injected at high pressure
and in extremely accurate quantities,
resulting in better performance and reduced
fuel consumption.
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Durée : 136 s |
| RAKIM & REDMAN V'ger 7 Narrative by:HONEYRYDER THE BEATMISTRESS |
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Spacewalk into the alien vessel, mind meld
with it. The vessel is V'ger a living
machine. Pure logic V'ger the unmanned
scientific probe named Voyager 6, which was
part of the NASA Voyager program, and
launched in the "twentieth century.The
damaged probe was found by an alien race of
living machines that interpreted its
programming as instructions to "Learn all
that is Learnable" and return that
information to its creator. These machines
made V'ger into something capable of
fulfilling that mission, and on its journey
back it gathered so much knowledge that it
achieved consciousness itself! Having learned
all that is learnable on its journey home,
which took V'ger across the Universe . V'ger
begins to explore things, such as other
dimensions and higher planes of being
myspace.com/hivebeatz
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