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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31 Oct (Mon): Imaginary World Designer

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

10 Oct (Mon): First Fieldwork Write-Up

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

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

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

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

7 Sep (Wed): Is your play educational?

(on the readings page)

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Play Theory of Mass Communication

Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood

On Feline Play

Ends, Means, and Galumphing

Nature and Significance of Play

Toward a Critical Theory of Play

Fun in Games

Notes on the Concepts of Play and Leisure

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Play as the Clue to Ontological Explanation

An Exploratory Model of Play

Man, Play and Games

About the Foundational Bibliography

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

14 Nov (Mon): PROJECT V. 1 DUE

24 Oct (Mon): PROJECT PROSPECTUS DUE

14 Nov (Mon): Presentation Requirements

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

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

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

19 Oct (Wed): Grading Rubric for Project Work

12 Oct (Wed): Project Elements Menu

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

12 Oct (Wed): Playful Technology Conceptual Design Project

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

3 Oct (Mon): Fieldwork Guidelines

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

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

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

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

31 Aug (Wed): Writing Requirements and Expectations

29 Aug (Mon): The Illustrated Guide to Blogging

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Image Credits

Essentials

(on the about page)

Class Policies

Class Requirements

Grading Scale

Class Structure

Course Description

28 Nov (Mon): PART III: Our Contribution

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

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

7 Dec (Wed): Reprise and Conclusion

5 Dec (Mon): Presentations III

30 Nov (Wed): Presentations II

28 Nov (Mon): Presentations I

16 Nov (Wed): Field Trip: Volition

14 Nov (Mon): Industrial Organization and Play

9 Nov (Wed): Playful Technology and the Law

7 Nov (Mon): Subversion and Play

2 Nov (Wed): Simulation and Play

31 Oct (Mon): Online Worlds and Play

26 Oct (Wed): Gambling as Play

24 Oct (Mon): Gender and Play

19 Oct (Wed): Design Part II

17 Oct (Mon): Design of Playful Technologies

12 Oct (Wed): Cognition and Play

10 Oct (Mon): Motivation and Play

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

3 Oct (Mon): Violence and Play

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

26 Sep (Mon): Play as Nonsense

21 Sep (Wed): Play as Self-Fulfillment

19 Sep (Mon): Play as Fantasy

14 Sep (Wed): Play as Identity

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

7 Sep (Wed): Play as Development

31 Aug (Wed): Play in Animals

29 Aug (Mon): Playful Technologies

24 Aug (Wed): Introduction

23 Nov (Wed): Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

21 Nov (Mon): Thanksgiving (NO CLASS)

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

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

2 Nov (Wed): The Triumph of Tinkering

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

26 Oct (Wed): Commercial Gambling

24 Oct (Mon): Chess for Girls?

12 Oct (Wed): Games and the Cognitive System

10 Oct (Mon): Intrinsically Motivating Instruction

3 Oct (Mon): Immortal Kombat

29 Aug (Mon): Why Study Play?

How to access the online readings

26 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of Frivolity

21 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Self

19 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of the Imaginary

14 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Identity

12 Sep (Mon): Rhetorics of Fate

7 Sep (Wed): Rhetorics of Child Play

31 Aug (Wed): Rhetorics of Animal Progress

The Ambiguity of Play

9 Nov (Wed): The Right to Play

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

7 Nov (Mon): Parasitic Interventions

2 Nov (Wed): The Semiotics of SimCity

31 Oct (Mon): The Unreal Estate Boom

31 Oct (Mon): Virtual Worlds

31 Oct (Mon): A Rape in Cyberspace

26 Oct (Wed): The Players

24 Oct (Mon): Online Gaming Culture

19 Oct (Wed): The Iterative Design Process

17 Oct (Mon): Players Who Suit MUDs

28 Sep (Wed): Spacewar

28 Sep (Wed): All But War is Simulation

29 Aug (Mon): The syllabus

How to use the Web Readings

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