Comments(0) [Happy Halloween! Here we go! Final Fantasy XII for PS2 today and Final Fantasy III for Nintendo DS on November 14. BK]
category: Gaming, Popular Culture
Comments(3) An FAS study released this week, titled “Harnessing the power of video games for learning,” reports that best-selling games are built in surprisingly pedagogical ways. Players improve at their own pace. Beating a level requires experimentation, failure and learning from mistakes. -Nick Summers [From Nick. BK]
category: Gaming, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Technology
Comments(0) His strip also conveyed a Midwesterner’s goggle-eyed perspective on the metropolis. “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” which took over The Herald’s Sunday supplement cover in 1905, married something of Muybridge’s stop-action photography with Lewis Carroll to invent a phantasmagoric vision that guided a viewer’s eye seamlessly across differently shaped candied panels. They magically blended to make […]
category: Comics, Popular Culture
Comments(0) Ironic, because the book is all about image: the vision of the Green Knight when he arrives amid the Yuletide revels; the image of perfection that Gawain’s shield represents, a pentangle on one side and Mary on the other; the picture of the perfect chivalrous knight that Gawain finds burdensome when he’s face to face […]
category: Literacy, Poetry, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(4) No, Sanders has full-fledged bibliomania. The bookstore owner exhibits all the classic symptoms of the disorder listed by Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: buying “multiple copies of the same book and [the] accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use.” -Lynda Percival [Joel Pace, an undergraduate mentor and friend of mine, experiences bibliomania often and […]
category: Bibliography, Literacy, Popular Culture
Comments(1) Joystiq’s sister site DS Fanboy recently posted about a homebrew effort called Comic Book DS that lets you transfer comics from your computer and read them book-style with the DS flipped on end. You don’t have to conceal issues of Action Comics underneath an old copy of Newsweek that you swiped off your dentist’s waiting […]
category: Gaming, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(8) Take a look at what passes for subjects of scholarly and instructional focus on campuses. Should taxpayer dollars really go to underwrite courses in such things as the history of comic book art? Policy makers and tuition payers need to be made aware of what sorts of courses institutions consider appropriate to fulfill core academic […]
category: Comics, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(5) [I contemplate about whether or not having stampers with our frequently used comments on them such as “Comma splice – move clause and revise sentence” or “Pronoun disagreement” is more efficient than writing those out each time, but then our students may not be able to tell how much energy is invested into reading and […]
category: Life, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Poetics
Comments(0) Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution. -Associated Press [From Jerz’s Literacy Weblog. BK]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology, Television
Comments(2) If Google reaches a deal with YouTube, the combined company would be a more potent force against MySpace, the social-networking Web site that has become the No. 1 provider of video on the Internet, according to comScore Networks, a market-research firm. -Ben Charny [I know lots of people use Facebook, MySpace, or both, but MySpace […]
category: Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology, Television