This week in LIS 201 (week 11)

Week 11: Games, simulations, and avatars

LECTURE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

• Video games

READINGS BEFORE DISCUSSION

• Stephen Kline et al., “The new cyber-city: The interactive game industry in the new millennium,” Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing (2003).
• Carlo Rotella, “No child left untableted,” New York Times (12 September 2013).

HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION

• If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.
• If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice!  Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.
• Upload a working "skeleton file" of your slideshow presentation to your discussion section wiki, and make a link to your personal wiki page. This should be a PowerPoint file that has all the timings correct for the Ignite presentation, with 15-second auto-advance of the slides.

DISCUSSION MEETING

• First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms
• Two student presentations (# 17 and #18) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).  These should be the last article speeches of the semester.
• Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.
• Discuss your book slideshow project.

ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND

This weekend you'll participate in an augmented reality game.  For this exercise, you should team up with from one to three other students in your discussion section.  At least one student in each team needs to have an iOS device (an Apple iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad).    

• Read through the Aris web site at http://arisgames.org and learn about this augmented reality tool.
• Download the Aris app from the iOS app store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aris/id371788434
• Use the app to create an ARIS account and login to the game server.
• Pick one of the available games from the "Location Specific" category (these involve our campus and city).
• Play!
• Blog about your experience playing this sort of game.  (Each group may create a single jointly-authored blog post.)
• (Inspired to create your own augmented reality game?  I'm willing to consider extra credit if you do; let me know.)