Message for People in my Tuesday/Thursday or Thursday sessions

Hello Everyone,

Sorry about the short notice. I had an emergency to attend to and I could not be there at school today (Thursday, September 4, 2008). Please check your e-mail so that you know the adjustments I made to your respective classes.

If you are in my Thursday, 5:15 to 8pm class, we will be meeting in the online chatroom (on Blackboard, go to Communication < Collaboration < Virtual Classroom) for our class so I can go over a few things.

If you know of anyone in the respective classes above, please inform them about any changes they might not be aware of due to e-mail mixup or problems with their e-mail or just access.

Thank you for your patience.

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Post Your URL Here...

Post your URL for your blog here, along with your e-mail address. Click Here to Read More..

Video Game Listing:

The video game list is in the first post below. If you want to add to this list, just post underneath here. Click Here to Read More..

Project 1: How Do Arguments Work? (Rhetorically Analyzing Video Games)

Length/Format/Design: 1,500 word academic paper with an abstract, MLA Works Cited page

Overview: Writers often use more than text to persuade an audience. Writers convey opinions by combining visual and auditory information to reach their audience. For instance, when a candidate appears in a political advertisement, he or she must also consider the background, clothes, music, and setting rather than simply the published words on a page. By using an array of rhetorical techniques, such as visual imagery, sound, costume, and voice inflection, writers can tailor their arguments towards a specific audience with greater precision, more dramatically affect their audience’s perceptions, and move those audiences towards action more readily.

In the twenty first century, video games have especially increased a writer’s ability to present text in new ways, and a critical audience should be able to analyze the strategies video game creators use when interlacing movement, sound, and gaming for a purpose.

Research and locate two video games that interest you from the list below. These video games should be similar in tone or subject manner. Analyze these games in order to make an evaluative argument regarding
1) what is the message the video game is trying to portray
2) how effective are the video game creators in portraying their message.

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Advertising, Education, and Persuading: Games for Analysis

Schedule for Today's Class:

1. Quiz
2. Summary of Readings and the Class, Introduction of Schedule
3. Define Persuasive Games, Advergames, and Educational Games (with examples of "Successful" versions of these types of games)
4. Set up blogs (link to the main blog and two of your classmates)
5. Homework:
- BLOG: about two video games from the list. Talk about how they fit into the genre of games we talked about in class and how they fit into your own ideas about advertising, education, and politics.
- READ: Chapter 2 in the book
- FIND: two different video games and bring the urls to class on Thursday that fall within the genress of Advergames, Persuasive Games, or Educational Games. Click Here to Read More..