Week 1 – Introduction & Unit Outline
1. READ:
“The Great Automatic Grammatizator” short story by Roald Dahl
Currently available online
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15666439/The-Collected-Short-Stories-of-Roald-Dahl-Volume-2-Roald-Dahl
The unit outline can be found here
[180Kb PDF]
2. PLAY WITH:
Geoffrey’s Automatic Story Generator
http://geoffrey.com.au/?page_id=8.
Automatic Music Generator (midi)
Wolfram Mathematical Software
http://tones.wolfram.com/about/
For next week:
1. READ & DISCUSS:
Pick one article (or more if you’re keen) that you find interesting from the following sites and discuss here in the comments:
Gamasutra
http://www.gamasutra.com/
International Game Developers Association
http://www.igda.org/
2. BLOG (set this up at blogger.com):
Write what you might have learned this week in your “The Interactive Screen” BLOG.
3. DISCUSS:
Define “Web 2.0″ in one sentencce.
Define “widget” in one sentence.
Discuss these terms here in comments (and further in your BLOG if you feel the urge).