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Announcements (from the home page)

23 Jul (Sat): The class web site is now online.

24 Aug (Wed): The reading for 8/29 is now online

29 Aug (Mon): The blogs page is now up

29 Aug (Mon): Post a test entry to your blog by 8/31

29 Aug (Mon): Bring a playful technology to class on 8/31

31 Aug (Wed): There is no class on 9/5 (Labor Day)

31 Aug (Wed): Your first blog post is due 9/7

7 Sep (Wed): Your second blog post is due 9/12

14 Sep (Wed): Your third blog post is due 9/19

21 Sep (Wed): Your fourth blog post is due 9/26

28 Sep (Wed): Your fifth blog post is due 10/3

3 Oct (Mon): All fieldwork posts must contain a link to this page

3 Oct (Mon): There is no class on 10/5 (for fieldwork)

3 Oct (Mon): Your fieldwork write-up is due 10/10

10 Oct (Mon): Project Prospectus Deadline EXTENDED to 10/24

10 Oct (Mon): On Wed 10/12 class will meet in G8A FLB

12 Oct (Wed): Your seventh blog post is due 10/17

12 Oct (Wed): The Projects Page is now online

12 Oct (Wed): Be sure to try out your Segue space (see 10/12)

17 Oct (Mon): Seventh blog deadline extended to 10/19

19 Oct (Wed): The projects page has been updated

19 Oct (Wed): Your project prospectus is due 10/24

19 Oct (Wed): Post your project prospectus as a blog entry

26 Oct (Wed): Office hours are cancelled for 10/26

26 Oct (Wed): Your ninth blog post is due 10/31

2 Nov (Wed): The projects page has been updated

2 Nov (Wed): The panel of judges has been appointed

2 Nov (Wed): Your tenth blog post is due 11/07

7 Nov (Mon): On Wed 11/9 class will meet in G8A FLB

7 Nov (Mon): The judges page has been updated with more judges

9 Nov (Wed): There is no blog post due Monday

9 Nov (Wed): Project V. 1 is due on Monday 11/14

14 Nov (Mon): presentation info was passed out on 11/14

14 Nov (Mon): presentation times are on the schedule (11/28-12/5)

14 Nov (Mon): On Wed 11/16 we will take our field trip

16 Nov (Wed): Photos from the field trip are now online

16 Nov (Wed): There is no blog post due Monday

16 Nov (Wed): Project presentations start Monday, 11/28

7 Dec (Wed): Good luck on V. 2 of your projects

7 Dec (Wed): Turn in consent forms to 244 Lincoln Hall
   (ask for the instructor's mailbox)

7 Dec (Wed): "Free" outside reading on Simulation: 11/02

12 Dec (Mon): Congratulations to winners of Project Awards!

Assignments

7 Sep (Wed): Is your play educational?

12 Sep (Mon): Why are things called "play"?

19 Sep (Mon): How are media audiences playing?

26 Sep (Mon): Can play theory help designers?

3 Oct (Mon): Explain your aggression, violence, and militarism.

10 Oct (Mon): First Fieldwork Write-Up

17 Oct (Mon): The Cognitive Neuroscientist Video Game Critic

31 Oct (Mon): Imaginary World Designer

7 Nov (Mon): Peer-Review a Playful Technology Proposal

Bibliography of Foundational Readings (on the readings page)

About the Foundational Bibliography

Man, Play and Games

An Exploratory Model of Play

Play as the Clue to Ontological Explanation

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Notes on the Concepts of Play and Leisure

Fun in Games

Toward a Critical Theory of Play

Nature and Significance of Play

Ends, Means, and Galumphing

On Feline Play

Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood

Play Theory of Mass Communication

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Deadlines, Important

24 Oct (Mon): PROJECT PROSPECTUS DUE

14 Nov (Mon): PROJECT V. 1 DUE

12 Dec (Mon): PROJECT V. 2 DUE (NO CLASS)

Help/Handouts

29 Aug (Mon): The Illustrated Guide to Blogging

31 Aug (Wed): Writing Requirements and Expectations

7 Sep (Wed): Children's Play Handout (in-class exercise)

3 Oct (Mon): Posting an image in a Blog Entry

3 Oct (Mon): Fieldwork Consent Form (Adults)

3 Oct (Mon): Fieldwork Assent Form (Minors)

3 Oct (Mon): Fieldwork Guidelines

10 Oct (Mon): Cognition Bingo (in-class exercise)

12 Oct (Wed): Playful Technology Conceptual Design Project

12 Oct (Wed): How to Use Segue to Publish Your Project

12 Oct (Wed): Project Elements Menu

19 Oct (Wed): Grading Rubric for Project Work

2 Nov (Wed): The Illustrated Guide to Commenting on Blogs

7 Nov (Mon): Finding Outside Sources for Your Project

9 Nov (Wed): How to Enable Your Project to be Graded in Segue

14 Nov (Mon): Presentation Requirements

Home Page, Class (go to the home page)

Essentials

Image Credits

Information About this Class (on the about page)

Course Description

Class Structure

Grading Scale

Class Requirements

Class Policies

Major Sections of the Course

29 Aug (Mon): PART I: Theories of Play

28 Sep (Wed): PART II: Settings & Consequences

28 Nov (Mon): PART III: Our Contribution

Meetings

24 Aug (Wed): Introduction

29 Aug (Mon): Playful Technologies

31 Aug (Wed): Play in Animals

7 Sep (Wed): Play as Development

12 Sep (Mon): Play as Fate/Chance, Play as Power

14 Sep (Wed): Play as Identity

19 Sep (Mon): Play as Fantasy

21 Sep (Wed): Play as Self-Fulfillment

26 Sep (Mon): Play as Nonsense

28 Sep (Wed): Selected History of Play and Games

3 Oct (Mon): Violence and Play

5 Oct (Wed): FIELDWORK DAY (NO CLASS)

10 Oct (Mon): Motivation and Play

12 Oct (Wed): Cognition and Play

17 Oct (Mon): Design of Playful Technologies

19 Oct (Wed): Design Part II

24 Oct (Mon): Gender and Play

26 Oct (Wed): Gambling as Play

31 Oct (Mon): Online Worlds and Play

2 Nov (Wed): Simulation and Play

7 Nov (Mon): Subversion and Play

9 Nov (Wed): Playful Technology and the Law

14 Nov (Mon): Industrial Organization and Play

16 Nov (Wed): Field Trip: Volition

28 Nov (Mon): Presentations I

30 Nov (Wed): Presentations II

5 Dec (Mon): Presentations III

7 Dec (Wed): Reprise and Conclusion

Notes/Holidays

5 Sep (Mon): Labor Day (NO CLASS)

21 Nov (Mon): Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

23 Nov (Wed): Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

Online Class Readings (password protected)

How to access the online readings

29 Aug (Mon): Why Study Play?

3 Oct (Mon): Immortal Kombat

10 Oct (Mon): Intrinsically Motivating Instruction

12 Oct (Wed): Games and the Cognitive System

24 Oct (Mon): Chess for Girls?

26 Oct (Wed): Commercial Gambling

2 Nov (Wed): Games as the Play of Simulation

2 Nov (Wed): The Triumph of Tinkering

14 Nov (Mon): Coin-Op: The Life

Textbook Readings

The Ambiguity of Play

31 Aug (Wed): Rhetorics of Animal Progress

7 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Child Play

12 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of Fate

14 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Identity

19 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of the Imaginary

21 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Self

26 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of Frivolity

Web Readings (not password protected)

How to use the Web Readings

29 Aug (Mon): The syllabus

28 Sep (Wed): All But War is Simulation

28 Sep (Wed): Spacewar

17 Oct (Mon): Players Who Suit MUDs

19 Oct (Wed): The Iterative Design Process

24 Oct (Mon): Online Gaming Culture

26 Oct (Wed): The Players

31 Oct (Mon): A Rape in Cyberspace

31 Oct (Mon): Virtual Worlds

31 Oct (Mon): The Unreal Estate Boom

2 Nov (Wed): The Semiotics of SimCity

7 Nov (Mon): Parasitic Interventions

9 Nov (Wed): Clones, Bones, and Twilight Zones

9 Nov (Wed): The Right to Play

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