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The Structure Of Play: An Exploration Of The Instructional Design Of Rift, Carly Finseth
The Structure Of Play: An Exploration Of The Instructional Design Of Rift, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
This paper uncovers and explores the specific instructional approaches that role-playing games (RPGs) use to engage and teach their players. The goal of this research was to go beyond the theoretical understandings of gaming as rhetorical, social, and cultural experience and instead identify a practical, applications-based approach to understanding games as instructional design artifacts. Through in-depth case study research, I ultimately unearthed a set of heuristics that can be used in future studies about games and learning including how to study video games as instructional documentation and how to construct a higher education classroom as a game.
Using Games To Make Something: Of Our Students, Our Pedagogies, Our Field. A Review Essay Of Gee & Hayes (2011), Squire (2011), Steinkuehler Et Al (2012), And Thomas & Brown (2011), Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
If there’s one thing that writing instructors are known for it’s innovation. Compositionists, because of our connection between academia and industry, the humanistic and the technical, the creative and the practical, are often some of the first to explore and adopt new technologies. In this review essay, I introduce how games and digital technologies can help our students “make” new thing. Understanding how games can link with literary practices, multimodal composition, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, and more can help researchers in rhetoric and composition make important contributions to our field: Make games with the knowledge of what actually works …
An Open Source Composition Space: Redefining Invention For A New Technological Age, Carly Finseth
An Open Source Composition Space: Redefining Invention For A New Technological Age, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
This essay integrates composition theory with pedagogical practice to redefine what is traditionally viewed as the 'writing classroom.' Specifically, it explores how we can redefine rhetorical invention through the cultural foundations of open source communities. In "An Open Source Composition Space," writing is collaborative, authorship is negated by ideals of shared intellectual property, and students and teachers can learn from each other in a safe and supportive environment.
Book Review: Storycraft: The Complete Guide To Writing Narrative Nonfiction By Jack Hart, Carly Finseth
Book Review: Storycraft: The Complete Guide To Writing Narrative Nonfiction By Jack Hart, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
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A Review Of Inter/Vention: Free Play In The Age Of Electracy By Jan Rune Holmevik, Carly Finseth
A Review Of Inter/Vention: Free Play In The Age Of Electracy By Jan Rune Holmevik, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
In these days of serious play, rhetoricians, game scholars, and compositionists alike have struggled with ways to legitimize the study of games as serious artifacts in our field. Enter Jan Rune Holmevik's (2012) Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy, a text that effectively bridges the gap between theory and practice, work and play, to prove that games don't just have to be theorized or played; as scholars we can—and should—do both.
The Social Hierarchy Of The Joomla Content Management System (Cms): What The Open Source Community Can Teach Us About Knowledge Creation, Power, And Collaboration, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
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The Impact Of Technologies On Writing Practices And Community Collaboration, Carly Finseth, Huiling Ding
The Impact Of Technologies On Writing Practices And Community Collaboration, Carly Finseth, Huiling Ding
Carly Finseth
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Communication And The Joomla Open Source Content Management System (Cms): How Social Networking Has Redefined Instructional Documentation, Carly Finseth
Carly Finseth
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