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Pawning the Faerie Queene Literature in the Age of Online Gaming and Social Networking
Thesis I The difference between Digital Natives and the rest of us:
Thesis I The difference between Digital Natives and the rest of us: vowels.
Pawning
Pwning Derived from the word "own,"it implies domination of a rival.  Used primarily in online games to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated.  -Wikipedia
World of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and Virtual Reality Co-taught with Matt Hall, head of ITS at Vanderbilt First Year Writing Seminar at Vanderbilt University Class blog: worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com Total views: 20,010 Busiest day: 2,054 (October 5,   2008) Views today: 8 Total Posts: 258
Lord of the Rings Online Book, movie, and massively multiplayer online game (MMO) Remediation (Jay David Bolter and Richard 	Grusin, Remediation: 	Understanding New Media)
Thesis II Remediation highlights formal features of narrative in unexpected ways.
Ancillary Goals Toolkit of free, readily available digital technologies that instructors can draw on without extensive training. Blog (Wordpress) iTunes University – podcasts of classes YouTube – videos related to the class Windows Live – posting supplementary materials Google Documents or Microsoft Office Live – peer reviewing
Digital classroom To learn more about using these free programs, view our pod cast on YouTube. Search for: “Narrative forms in the Digital Classroom” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71sTxCl4CY
Thesis IIi Off the shelf programs are the salvation of Digital Immigrants
Thesis IV Digital Natives know next to nothing about the media they use.
Faerie Queene Online Designed and built in the final three weeks of the semester Never Winter Nights 2 Goal: students making a game from Spenser  not producing a game for others to play.
Design Notes
Entrance to Faerie Queene Online (FQO) Players enter FQO through an early modern replica of our First Year Writing Seminar classroom.  Two doors lead off – one into Spenser’s Study, the other into the game.
Spenser’s Study On the desk is a copy of “The Mutability Cantos.”
Spenser’s Study is the respawn area. If defeated, a player is resurrected in Spenser’s Study, where he or she discovers two stanzas about the mutability of all mortal life before re-entering the game.
Entering Faerie Land Emerging from a forest, one encounters Britomart.
Castle Joyeous Plain Before the doors of Castle Joyeous, one must defeat several knights who challenge you to swear allegiance to their lady, Malecasta.
Castle Joyeous dining hall
Merlin’s Cave Emerging from Castle Joyeous, you are transported, as in Britomart’s flashback in Canto 2, to Merlin’s Cave.
Castle Busirane Forest NPC tells you to follow the winding river through the forest but to watch out for wolves.
Sir Scudamour A dialogue tells the player about Sir Scudamour’s beloved Amoret, imprisoned in Castle Busirane.
Castle Busirane The castle is defended by a wall of fire.
Ollyphant Before one can enter Castle Busirane, one must first defeat the giant Ollyphant.
The Cupid Tapestry Click on the wall hanging and you enter the stories depicted in the tapestry (Book III, Canto 11).  Ekphrasis as virtual reality.

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Pwning The Faerie Queene

  • 1. Pwning the Faerie Queene Literature in the Age of Online Gaming and Social Networking
  • 2. Pawning the Faerie Queene Literature in the Age of Online Gaming and Social Networking
  • 3. Pawning the Faerie Queene Literature in the Age of Online Gaming and Social Networking a
  • 15. Pawning the Faerie Queene Literature in the Age of Online Gaming and Social Networking
  • 16. Thesis I The difference between Digital Natives and the rest of us:
  • 17. Thesis I The difference between Digital Natives and the rest of us: vowels.
  • 19. Pwning Derived from the word "own,"it implies domination of a rival. Used primarily in online games to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated. -Wikipedia
  • 20. World of Wordcraft: Digital Narrative and Virtual Reality Co-taught with Matt Hall, head of ITS at Vanderbilt First Year Writing Seminar at Vanderbilt University Class blog: worldsofwordcraft.wordpress.com Total views: 20,010 Busiest day: 2,054 (October 5, 2008) Views today: 8 Total Posts: 258
  • 21. Lord of the Rings Online Book, movie, and massively multiplayer online game (MMO) Remediation (Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media)
  • 22. Thesis II Remediation highlights formal features of narrative in unexpected ways.
  • 23. Ancillary Goals Toolkit of free, readily available digital technologies that instructors can draw on without extensive training. Blog (Wordpress) iTunes University – podcasts of classes YouTube – videos related to the class Windows Live – posting supplementary materials Google Documents or Microsoft Office Live – peer reviewing
  • 24. Digital classroom To learn more about using these free programs, view our pod cast on YouTube. Search for: “Narrative forms in the Digital Classroom” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71sTxCl4CY
  • 25. Thesis IIi Off the shelf programs are the salvation of Digital Immigrants
  • 26. Thesis IV Digital Natives know next to nothing about the media they use.
  • 27. Faerie Queene Online Designed and built in the final three weeks of the semester Never Winter Nights 2 Goal: students making a game from Spenser not producing a game for others to play.
  • 29. Entrance to Faerie Queene Online (FQO) Players enter FQO through an early modern replica of our First Year Writing Seminar classroom. Two doors lead off – one into Spenser’s Study, the other into the game.
  • 30. Spenser’s Study On the desk is a copy of “The Mutability Cantos.”
  • 31. Spenser’s Study is the respawn area. If defeated, a player is resurrected in Spenser’s Study, where he or she discovers two stanzas about the mutability of all mortal life before re-entering the game.
  • 32. Entering Faerie Land Emerging from a forest, one encounters Britomart.
  • 33. Castle Joyeous Plain Before the doors of Castle Joyeous, one must defeat several knights who challenge you to swear allegiance to their lady, Malecasta.
  • 35. Merlin’s Cave Emerging from Castle Joyeous, you are transported, as in Britomart’s flashback in Canto 2, to Merlin’s Cave.
  • 36. Castle Busirane Forest NPC tells you to follow the winding river through the forest but to watch out for wolves.
  • 37. Sir Scudamour A dialogue tells the player about Sir Scudamour’s beloved Amoret, imprisoned in Castle Busirane.
  • 38. Castle Busirane The castle is defended by a wall of fire.
  • 39. Ollyphant Before one can enter Castle Busirane, one must first defeat the giant Ollyphant.
  • 40. The Cupid Tapestry Click on the wall hanging and you enter the stories depicted in the tapestry (Book III, Canto 11). Ekphrasis as virtual reality.