teaching
On relative worth
Well.
I might the first to say it (apparently so, judging by the obfuscation present in both print and online media today) but, if the government wants a straight answer, then no. The two degrees are not the same, and everyone knows it. To pretend to have ‘discovered’ otherwise is an utter fallacy.
One of these degrees [...]
On Copyrighted Matters
There’s an odd tradition amongst academic writers and publishers, that essentially involves the signing away of copyright to the publisher upon publication. Which, while explaining the ‘reprinted with kind permission of whomever it might be‘ notices that appear in the acknowledgement pages of collected publications, is a little odd. Our publishers in most cases are [...]
Especially for futureMrsT
Now, this is ridiculous. As I twittered today: An institution’s regulatory prohibition of the colon in course title punctuation is indicative of systemic mismanagement.
A statement which is, as I’m sure you’ll all agree, self-evident. Especially when one discovers that Module Titles, quite apart from Programme Titles, are in fact perfectly welcome to include said puncutation [...]
My morning so far
“Maybe I should blog this” I thought a few moments ago, as the first student of the day failed to appear.
It’s not the first time either – before the advent of ‘having a semblance of a proper job’ I’ve spent too many similar days sat in chilly rooms waiting for students to turn up for [...]
10 things I decided last night with a glass of wine
I foolishly promised to give a short talk to the 1st year students today, the suggested title of which was:
“Ten things every Interactive Narrative Designer should remember”
Here it is, with short notes. I think, on the whole, that it works. It even has a conclusion, which is more than I expected it to.
1. Readers expect [...]
Going-Away Rooms
Hmn. I was going to blog about my day, or about why I haven’t blogged for a week or so, or about the splendid weekend in London, but instead I’m going to expose a pernicious evil in the world. An evil I’ve personally witnessed spreading its wicked, slimy tentacles across the crisply trimmed lawn of [...]
7 days is a long time in academia
A much better week this time around. Must be something to do with students actually being here, and therefore everyone has to get on with the job rather than worrying around like headless chickens worrying about how to do it. Whatever the reason though, this week has been wonderful. I’ve:
Talked for two and a half [...]
Oh, come on…
“A professor has been told he breached data protection laws because of the way he replied to a complaint from a concerned parent.”
Geriant Johnes, head of Economics at Lancaster, disclosed details of a first year student’s timetable to the student’s mother, addressing a complaint she’d made about the level of support he was receiving. At [...]
I am trying to think of something interesting, but it’s Tuesday, and my brain is tired
There are four papers to read on my desk (Toward an Ecology of Gaming, How Interactive Can Fiction Be?, Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice and Timely Art: Hybridity in New Cinema) and I swear I will write something interesting tomorrow about at least one of them.
Nearly, nearly… no, that’s not it.
Kate Pullinger addresses the future (albeit through a veil of production and distribution costs) for book publishing in the Guardian:
“As a digital writer (yes, it’s true, I am entirely composed of pixels now), my primary interest is in stories created for the new media, the “born-digital”, as opposed to adapting content intended for the book [...]
