in medias unrest
I had the opportunity to teach the first run of ENG279 Video Games this summer at UTM & the course was a blast. Students loved it. I loved it. The student feedback spans everything from our critical discussions to how much we had playing and making games.
When do you get the chance to see Bioshock play throughs on a theatre screen WITH full sound???
The Keynote I gave at The Arts of Adaptation Conference at Loyola University, Saturday March 18, 2017
Image credit: Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
Terrific panel discussion with Nigel Newton, David Caron, Joanne Loton, and David Brady. Our conference host was the always insightful, Professor Ramona Pringle.
Panel: The Future of Storytelling
Moderator:
Nigel Newton, Director (Canada), INDE Experience Engineering
Panel:
»» David Brady, CEO, Cream Productions
»» David Caron, Co-publisher and President, ECW Press
»» Joanne Loton, Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Sesqui
»» Dr. Siobhan O’Flynn, Founder, NarrativeNow
A terrific feature interview with one of my students, Cody Kita, on the work he & fellow student, Adam De Luca did for the Annex BIA in support of a bike lane proposal on Bloor St. Their placement was the core activity for my experiential learning course, CDN435 Active Citizenship, in the Canadian Studies Program at University of Toronto. Well done Cody & Adam! and big thanks to Brian Burchill & Janice McHugh of the Annex BIA for making this opportunity possible!
From the feature (also featured on the FAS homepage!) & posted under: Re-Imagining Undergraduate Education:
“Students spent months studying issue
As part of Active Citizenship in a Canadian Context, a University College fourth-year course inCanadian Studies, Kita and classmate Adam De Luca spent seven months studying the issue of the Annex bike lanes and reporting their insights to the local Business Improvement Area (BIA).
Kita says the bike lanes had been the subject of numerous studies and debates over the decades, but the key factor was getting area businesses on board.
“It’s kind of amazing, because bike lanes are a need that has been expressed by the community for a long time, and finally that support is coming from the businesses as well,” says Kita, whose report advocated for the bike lanes on economic and safety grounds….”
Gone Writing!
Book project well under way examining ‘Narrativity’ as a feature of ‘narratives’ across media and a process reframed via experience design
More to come…
I’m showcasing the TMC Resource Kit website, co-created with Anthea Foyer, which we developed to provide How-To design tips and case studies for traditional media producers wanting to jump into digital media, interactive storytelling and transmedia. The site has case studies on groundbreaking & award winning transmedia projects, interviews with leading transmedia and interactive media storytellers, and fantastic production ‘manuals’ shared key producers around the world. This site was a collaborative project with Anthea Foyer, synthesizing & capturing some of our experience and thinking over the past 14 years working in digital media.
Recently, in consulting, I’ve been referring quite a few people who are dipping their toes in the digital waters to TMCResourceKit.com & although it’s a few years old now, the content has absolutely held up. Nice to see our original goal still in play!