An abbreviated form of this article appeared in this week's issue of The Michigan Tech Lode, with the note that you could read the full article online. For some reason, the online version reflects the same cut. In the interest of completeness, I offer the full article here.

Edit [10 November, 12:43 AM]: They've finally put up the full version on ( Read more... )

[Revised version posted 3:43pm, EST on 13 December, 2010 ( Read more... )

Reading: "Art Form for the Digital Age: Video games shape our culture. It's time we took them seriously." (2000) by Henry Jenkins ( Read more... )

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Reading: "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media" (2009) by Danah Boyd ( Read more... )

Presenter: Megan ( Read more... )

Before I forget to post this ( Read more... )

Storyboard layout of images and placement of sound files is complete for all five parts of the series. Parts 3 & 4 of the 5-part series are synchronized and hopefully finished. Parts 1, 2, and 5 still require synchronization, but I am satisfied with the sights and sounds that I have to use.

Part Three
Part FourBear in mind that there may be a ( Read more... )

I kind of dragged my feet getting started, and it took me longer than expected to track down a brown dry-erase marker, but other than that, I think I'm reasonably well on track. I did underestimate somewhat how long it would take to do the drawings/take the pictures yesterday. I blocked out the whole afternoon, never dreaming I'd need all of it, ( Read more... )

I propose to provide a positive image of Michigan Tech to prospective students (incoming freshmen, transfer, or grad students) while simultaneously entertaining the audience with humor. The audience members are relatively smart (average ACT score over 26*) people, approximately age 17-25, who can thus be considered to be fairly comfortable with ( Read more... )

Topic:
Stop-motion cartoon

Purpose:
Purely escapist humor

Statement of Purpose:After years of exhaustive "research", I have come to the conclusion that the entertainment industry exists for a reason: people like to imagine scenarios that are different from their own lives in some way in order to put aside their real problems temporarily. Not only ( Read more... )