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Future Media Fest: General Introduction
During the week of October 4, Georgia Tech will play host to Future Media Fest, a conference that bills itself as “an interactive mash-up of talent, ideas, trends and technology.” This event promises...
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Teaching Composition with Interactive Fiction
Regular readers of TECHStyle may remember my mentioning, back in September, my plans to use interactive fiction (“IF”) computer games in my multimodal composition classes. After two semesters of...
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Teaching Composition with Interactive Fiction, Part Two
In an earlier post, I explained why I think interactive fiction (IF) computer games can drive valuable experiments in the multimodal composition classroom. You can check out Part One for an overview...
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Marty Fink’s Spring ENGL 1102 course, Queer New Media
Britts, help spread the word about the Marty Fink’s Spring ENGL 1102 course, Queer New Media. The course will be the first of its kind at Georgia Tech, and will engage questions of digital media...
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Teaching Composition with Interactive Fiction, Part Three
In two earlier posts in this series, I gave an overview of why I use interactive fiction games in my composition classes, and described an “easy way” to do this: that is, using these games as “the...
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Letter from a New York City Jail: Reacting to the Past in First-year Composition
The Second Continental Congress voting for independence from Great Britain. When my student Patrice was arrested, I was amused. We were in my English 1101 seminar, “Romantic Revolutions,” and Patrice...
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