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Seminar
Schedule
Following
is our tentative seminar schedule.
Week
1 9/7: Introductions
Activities: Review GTT Media, Introductions
Speaker: Henry Jenkins
Readings: GTT piece,; Poole: Trigger Happy; Prensky: Digital
Game-Based Learning
Game of the Week: The Sims
Week
2 9/14: Games to Teach Math, Science, and Engineering
Activities: Discuss Games and Education; Discuss Readings,
Speaker: TBA
Readings: CMS:Games
& Education Panel; Review DGBL (5-9); Perkins (2-3); Resnick
article.
Game
of the Week: Riverdeep.net; Standard Deviants; Trail Games
Week
3 9/21: Opening New Markets
Activities: Education
Speaker: TBA
Readings: Jenkins/ Cassell: Barbie to Mortal Kombat; AAUW:
Tech-Savvy
Game of the Week: The Sims
Week
4 9/28: Expanding Game Themes in Context
Activities: EA Workshops
Speaker: Henry Jenkins, Marty Marks, David Thornburn
Readings: TBA
Game of the Week: TBA
Week
5 10/5: Educational Software Markets
Activities: International Markets; Educational Markets; Culture
and Games
Speaker: Shigeru Miyagawa; Jill
Readings: Saltzman Game Design, 4-7;
Game
of the Week: Star Festival
Due: Issues in Gaming White Papers
Week
6 10/12 Action-Adventure- Role Playing Game - Simulated World Game
Design
Activities:
Motivation, Learning Instructional Theory
Speaker: Eric Klopfer Kurt Squire
Readings: Malone Intrinsic Motivation; Schank et al. Learning by
Doing; Csikszentmihalyi Flow
Game of the Week: Tetris; Quake; Jet Grind Radio
Due:
Content Reports; Game 2 Prototype Outline; Game Prototype Proposals;
Tool Reports; Optics Game Prototype Complete
Week
7 10/19 Massively Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game Design
Activities:
Speaker: TBA
Week
8 10/26 Learning through Participating in Virtual Environments
Activities: RPG Design; Game symbolism; Narrative and Game Design
Speaker: Doug Church, Brian Sullivan
Readings: Spector Remodeling RPGs; Happy; Jenkins: Spatial
Narrative; Aesthetics of game design.
Game of the Week: Thief
Week
9 11/2 Consortium Launch
Activities: Present GTT for Consortium.
Speaker: N/A
Readings: Biealyck & Collins, Learning Communities Bruckman,
Moose; Dede; Koster Laws of Online World Design; Kim; Designing
Online Community; Turkle: MUDs
Game of the Week: Sissyfight 2000; MOOSE Crossing / Asheron’s
Call; Everquest;
Week
10 11/9 Strategy/ Simulation Game Design
Activities: Balancing Games
Speaker: Brian Sullivan; Chris Weaver.
Readings: Crawford: Concepts.
Game of the Week: TBA
Week
11 11/16 TBA
Activities: Gender
Speaker: Brenda Laurel, Henry Jenkins, Justince Cassell
Readings: Jenkins/ Cassell: Barbie to Mortal Kombat; AAUW:
Tech-Savvy
Game of the Week: The Sims, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy
Week
12 11/30 Lessons from Science Education; Assessment
Activities: Integration; Innovation and Invention, Assessment,
ecological psychology, Jasper Series
Speaker: Tom Keating, Michael Young
Readings: DGBL; Schwartz et. al. STAR Legacy; NAP
Game of the Week: Typing House of the Dead
Week
13 12/7 Presentations
Activities: Present Prototypes
Speaker:
Readings:
Game of the Week: GTT Prototypes
Due:
Game Prototypes; GTT Semester 1 Report
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