This week’s response for my Virtual Worlds class largely deals with James Gee’s book “What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy.” If you want to know fully what I’m talking about, you may need to pick the book up.Continue readingWeekly Response #2
I’ve noticed more and more of late something rather unique I think in American culture that has been going on the last 5-6 years. That is the blending of the Japanese and the American Cultures. Now I think this is interesting because I think it is really one of the first times that the east…Continue readingThe blending of two cultures.
I thought it might be fun to post my weekly responses for my Virtual World Studies class. I think they will mostly take the form of my current journeys in World of Warcraft, but may also take the form of what responses on what we are reading and thoughts in classContinue readingWeekly Response #1
I’ve previously talked about movie theaters and what not and how there is something lost in them these days. Well today, I went for a walk in one of the local malls called Hilldale Mall. The Hilldale has always been an interesting town in Madison. It is one of four indoor malls in town, and…Continue readingSundance Theatre coming to Madison
After long last, I finally got into a new zone in EoF. The jump between Steamfont and Lesser Faydark is huge, you can’t really go straight from one to the other, you really need to stop over in Feerrott, Everfrost, Lavastorm, and Sinking Sands first. There is a dungeun instance that you could go to…Continue readingEQ2: Lesser Faydark
Every now and then I have a longing for the 90s. After watching Clerks II, I have this longing again. That movie was very nostaligc, not just that it was a very popular 90s movie, but it was chalk full of great 90s music, and I also think much of the sentiment we felt during…Continue readingNostalgic