Schedule
| Week | Date | Assignment | Writing Due |
| 1 | 8/26 | Introduction to the class | |
| 2 | 8/31 | Read “Introduction: Why Science Needs Story” in Olson (pp. 1-21) | Complete intro tasks Sketch 1: Avatar |
| 9/2 | Play Depression Quest Listen to “The Landlord’s Game” 99% Invisible podcast (note the transcript) | ||
| 3 | 9/7 | Henry Jenkins “Why Media Spreads” and Ian Bogost “Media Microecology“ | Sketch 2: What’s in your bag? |
| 9/9 | Ezra Klein Show “This Conversation Will Change How You Think about Trauma: Interview with Bessel Van Der Kolk” (transcript). Podcast planning discussion | ||
| 4 | 9/13 | Technology Literacy Narrative 1 | |
| 9/14 | Olson, Houston 2: Thesis (24-65) | Sketch 3: Visual Note Taking | |
| 9/16 | Joe Sacco, Paying the Land part 1: “You find yourself in a circle“ | ||
| 5 | 9/21 | Olson, Houston 3: Antithesis — Methods: Narrative Tools, Word, Sentence (68-125) | Sketch 4: Podcast Graphics |
| 9/23 | Podcast planning | ||
| 6 | 9/28 | Read and respond to each others’ literacy narratives Listen to the first 25 minutes of “Suzanne Simard: Forests are Wired for Wisdom“ | |
| 9/30 | Olson, Houston 3: Antithesis — Methods: Paragraph and Results (127-73) | ||
| 7 | 10/5 | Joe Sacco, Paying the Land “part 4″ | |
| 10/7 | Olson, Houston 3: Synthesis (176-232) | Podcast 1 & 2 | |
| 8 | 10/12 | No class: Fall Break | |
| 10/14 | Games Kickstarters: John Company Monumental Consequence Earthborne Rangers Inspirisles Jiangshi: Blood in the Banquet Hall Artisans of Splendent Vale Coyote and Crow Xenolanguage | Podcast 3 & 4 | |
| 9 | 10/19 | Forney, Marbles (3-4). | Technology Literacy Narrative, Part 2 |
| 10/21 | Podcast 5 & 6 | ||
| 10 | 10/26 | Sketch 5: HTML landing page | |
| 10/28 | Podcast 7 & 8 | ||
| 11 | 11/2 | Sketch 6: Combophoto | |
| 11/4 | Podcast 9 & 10 | ||
| 12 | 11/9 | Play The Funny Thing About the Deer and The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo | Sketch 7: Music Mix |
| 11/11 | Working on Twine games | Podcast 11 & 12 | |
| 13 | 11/16 | Sketch 8: Recreate a Movie Scene | |
| 11/18 | Podcast 13 & 14 | ||
| 14 | 11/23 | ||
| 11/25 | No class: Thanksgiving | ||
| 15 | 11/30 | Twine games presentation | |
| 12/2 | Submit Twine game files & reflection post | ||
| 16 | 12/7 | Sketch 9: Assemblies | |
| 12/16 | Final Reflection Letter and portfolio due | ||
