This week we will have our final session building our twine2 planets. Our guest presenter will be Dr. Doug Chismar head of the liberal arts program and a philosopher whose specialty is ethics and empathy. We will consider the values that we have created in our worlds, what values have come into our constructions through our assumptions and what values we want to be reflected in the societies we have built.
Completion of Twine2 Project--Next week, Nov. 6, there will be no class because of Faculty Professional Day. Final Twine 2 Projects are due Friday, Nov. 9; please send me your updated and complete files by then. Include a 100 x 100 pixel planet skin if you want to replace the generic one on the Encyclopedia page.
Next Class we will begin the final project, a conceptual plan for a theme park world rooted in the representation of Wakanda in the transmedia franchise Black Panther.
This week I will be taking the class through a series of additions to our Twine2 story environments. We will be using some of the basic approaches to anthropology in formulating a report for your planet from a xenologist, a scientist who studies extraterrestrial life. I have put a reasonably short reading on the course resource page that introduces many of the primary concepts of cultural anthropology. It is recommended that you read it before coming to class so that it will help you to understand the concepts we will talk about. You will also find a copy of this week's presentation and Rick Dakan's guide to basic Twine2 on the course resource page as well. Next week we will continue to develop our hypertext planets when Dr. Iva Petkova comes to talk about Sociology and the creation of societies.
I have created a page to link all the hypertext projects together. This page is at
https://webspace.ringling.edu/~dsteilin/Encyclopedia/Encyclopedia%20Home.html
and you can see a couple of the projects I have received linked there. Please export (publish) your hypertext project to your laptop using the export feature in twine2 and then send me the resulting html file. This can be sent ordinary email. In addition to the hypertext file, please send me a 100 x 100 pixel image of your planet to go on the Encyclopedia page. If you want you can also include in your email a description of your planet of about 30 words in length. If you don't send a description, I will write one based on the information in your hypertext survey. I have to receive projects from everyone by Friday evening, October 12, to be considered in time for mid-term grades.
