Narrative forms in the Digital Classroom
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- Author: VanderbiltUniversity
Tags: college digital education English forms gaming higher media narrative students university Vanderbilt
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.
Obama - The Stranger Among Us
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- Author: miradena
Tags: ayers barack change election friends maker michelle obama political socialism soros terrorists underground wright
How much does anyone really know about this man, Barack Obama? The evidence appears more and more clear that he has been training for some political revolution for 20 years. His words are the same words spoken by William Ayers. His actions and his voting record are reflective of Marxist policy and his religious convictions are based upon Black Liberation Theology. His books and his pastors infer racist views of America and his wife Michelle often speaks of her continued disdain for the people in America. Obamas friends are terrorists and radicals and criminals involved in political unrest, money laundering and obscene crimes such as the actual bombing of US government institutions. Obama, safely tucked within the Senate, has been subjected to some checks and balances - but the real danger is in allowing him free reign, regarding policy dictation, through a majority Democratic Congress. Reciting the word change is a cheap, conciliatory action to incite applause. But Obama's change can do little more than accelerate our metamorphosis into the Socialist States of America. SPANISH TRANSLATION** OBAMA- El Extrano Entre Nosotros Cuanto realmenta se conoce acerca de este hombre, Barack Obama? La evidencia parece muy clara, que el ha sido entrenado para revolucion politica por 20 anos. Sus palabras son las mismas palabras de Bill Ayers. His acciones y sus votos reflejan las reglas marxistas y sus creencias religiosas basadas en la Teologia de Liberacion Negra. Sus libros y sus pastores infieren vistas racistas de America y su esposa Michelle a menudo habla de su continuo menosprecio por la gente de America. Los amigos de Obama son teroristas, radicales, y criminales envueltos en desorden politico, lavado de dinero y crimenes obscenos como el acaecido bombardeo de las instituciones del Gobierno, Obama dentro del Senado ha sido sujeto a las reglas del Senado- pero el peligro seria darle rienda suelta a travez de una mayoria democratica en el Congreso. CHANGE ! CHANGE! son palabras que incitan aplauso.Pero Obama's CHANGE, solo podria acelerar nuestra metamorfosis en : Estados Socialistas de America. Please research Obama's friends: William Ayers (terrorist), Khalidi (PLO terrorist), Bernardine Dohrn (terrorist), Raila Odinga (cousin, Kenyan terrorist), Tony Rezko (criminal), Jim Johnson, George Soros (Socialist), Rev Wright (Black Liberation Theology) How much does anyone really know about this man, Barack Obama? The evidence appears more and more clear that he has been training for some political revolution for 20 years. His words are the same words spoken by William Ayers. His actions and his voting record are reflective of Marxist policy and his religious convictions are based upon Black Liberation Theology. His books and his pastors infer racist views of America and his wife Michelle often speaks of her continued disdain for the people in America. Obamas friends are terrorists and radicals and criminals involved in political unrest, money laundering and obscene crimes such as the actual bombing of US government institutions. Obama, safely tucked within the Senate, has been subjected to some checks and balances - but the real danger is in allowing him free reign, regarding policy dictation, through a majority Democratic Congress. Reciting the word change is a cheap, conciliatory action to incite applause. But Obama's change can do little more than accelerate our metamorphosis into the Socialist States of America. Miradena
Listening Post - US election narrative - 26 Sep 08 - Part 2
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- Rating Average: 4.82 from 22 people
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- Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Tags: Barack campaign election Gizbert John Listening McCain media message Myanmar Obama Post presidential Richard US Zimbabwe
The Listening Post takes a look at constructing the narrative: how John McCain is dictating the media's daily talking points in the US presidential election. We head to the US where the presidential election campaign is in full swing. And what are the media talking about during these times of economic woes and interminable foreign wars? As one TV anchor put it, they will be talking about "whatever the McCain campaign wants"! We look at how crafting the media narrative in order to win the news cycle has led the media to seriously consider the veracity of what the politicians and their campaigns are saying. Misleading adverts, misquoted statements and downright lies are coming back to haunt John McCain in a media backlash. But who will come out best in this battle to grab the voters' attention? In Newsbytes: Zimbabwe moves to relax restrictions on the media; A24, a new online initiative for pan-African journalism, is launched in Kenya; Egyptian campaigners employ SMS messaging to expose torture; Myanmar releases writer U Win Tin after 19 years in prison but the media faces a new threat as the ruling military government launch a cyber-war against anti-government online publications; and computer hackers target US Republicans at the highest level. Our Video of the week offers a master class in improvised musical instrumentation. This innovative Japanese man has created an orchestra out of vegetables. Learn all you need to know from his YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/heita3?ob=1
German challenge to Holocaust-Shoah Narrative
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- Author: FredrickToben
Tags: communications engineering health humanities media science social
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.
Oliver Cromwell - Hero or Villain?
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- Author: worcesterjonny
Tags: Billy Bragg Charles Cromwell Diggers Ireland Levellers Oliver Parliamentarians Pogues Protestants Royalists Stuart War
A short animation looking at the life of Oliver Cromwell. Was Cromwell a hero or a villain? The film includes tracks by The Pogues, Billy Bragg and Elvis Costello.
cultural identity narrative
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- Author: tbschlaf
Tags: CIN
cultural identity narrative created for a class using clips from a Brazilian film (Madame Sata) and novel (Tent of Miracles).
Character and Narrative: Persuasion in Advertising
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- Author: rolf1
Tags: bbv99 captology captology.tv character clearification narrative persuasion vista wendy's
Looks at clearification.com and bbv99.com to see how the use of character and narrative to persuade visitors
Old Blue Chair - narrative
- Length: 4:40
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- Author: rlh81170
Tags: Blue Chair Chesney Kenny Old
A narrative by Kenny and Ivan about the effects of time spent in the islands, along with "Old Blue Chair" performed in the British Virgin Islands and Heinz Field Stadium in Pittsburg, PA.
ILFF10/2006 "East Side Story" (Feature Narrative)
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- Author: LatinoFilmFestival
Tags: Carlos dir. East ILFF Portugal Side Story
dir. Carlos Portugal, 2006, USA, 88 min. Diego is a handsome, closeted East Los Angeles native with the hopes of leaving his culturally conservative hometown and opening up a chic Mexican restaurant in Arizona, away from his grandmother and former lover. When East Los Angeles suddenly experiences a real-estate boom, culturally diverse crowds of people begin pouring into what had once been considered the "Barrio." Among that crowd are Wesley and his jealous partner Jonathan, a gay couple adjusting to the neighborhood and the dominant Mexican community. When Diego and his new neighbors cross paths at a party they establish a relationship that will escalate and ultimately reveal a side of Diego that he had never known. Filmed in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, this romantic comedy is a refreshing look at the diversity that exists in LA and the long term effects the structural and economic revitalization of Downtown LA might have on surrounding communities. Screening at 10th International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area on 11/3/2006 @ 9:45 PM - @ Castro Theatre (San Francisco)
Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith - Intro
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- Author: PalgraveMacmillan
Tags: language meaning perception philosopher philosophy reality
Edmund Wright, a philosopher and a poet introduces his new book, Narrative, Perception, Language, and Faith. Described by the Rhetoric Society Quarterly as a magisterial book that is nothing less than a grand theory of discourse. This section is one of six.
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