Monthly Archives: November 2009
Media Artifact: What a Picture is Really Worth
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
In November, 1945, amid the traditional upstate NY snow, my grandparents were married. During a 17- day delay en route, my grandfather, a member of the Airforce, decided that there was no time like then to tie the knot. The…
Ancestral Artifact: Books
by mbond • • 0 Comments
think I might have figured out why I’m so afraid of computers. After reflecting on the media artifacts that help to shape me and my literacy, an image from an old film, The Time Machine, came to mind. The Time…
Media Artifact: The Internet, i-pod, and Facebook, oh my!
by Ryan • • 1 Comment
I was born before I should have been. I was born just in time to miss inclusion into the digital native generation. Surfing the internet wasn’t a common household activity when I was in high-school. Word-processing was not a part of…
How could we make gaming educational?
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
Well this is an age old question, “How do we make games educational”? Well one way is for both sides in the gaming business to meet on fair grounds and sign a peace treaty. There is a huge gap between…
Learning through Games . . .
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
Both articles, “Learning and Games” and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play” are built upon the statement “video games are virtual experiences centered on problem solving, they recruit learning and mastery as a form of pleasure” (Gee, 16).…
Media Artifact: Xbox FTW :)
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
I’ve gone on ad nauseum about my gaming hobby and therefore passion for Xbox Live, so it really seems like if I picked anything but an Xbox for my media artifact, I’d just be lying. And that’s the truth. I…
Can Video Games Actually Make Better Writers?
by chayden • • 0 Comments
Using the video game SWAT 4 as a primary exemplar for explaining the connection between learning and education, Gee makes some interesting observations about how individuals actually process information through experiences. He makes some good points regarding the necessity of…
Media Artifact Exercise – The Smart Phone
by chayden • • 0 Comments
I remember watching old episodes of “Get Smart” where the bumbling agent Maxwell Smart would answer telephone calls from his shoe. I recall thinking to myself, “Wow! How amazing would that be if you could call anyone, at anytime, in…
Media Artifact Exercise
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
For this exercise, I was experiencing difficulty selecting a specific artifact from the list of examples Dr. De Vries provides. However, out of this minor frustration, I discovered a way to analyze and explore the entirety of artifacts by focusing…