Last week, I had the privilege of presenting at UMW’s Faculty Academy. Not only did I enjoy learning from my colleagues and meeting some new people, it was really just a lot of fun. A great way to kick into some meta-conversant relaxation after the end of a long semester.
I gave two presentations, one on [...]

As you are aware, I will be in Orlando next week and therefore will not be physically present to teach class on Tuesday or Thursday. We will, however, continue to have class through the medium of the MOO environment I’ve set up for this purpose. This is our chance to try out a little bit of distance learning. For what it’s worth, interacting with MOO is similar enough to interactive fiction that this will be good practice for what’s coming later on. There are some major differences, but the basic idea of typing commands into a text parser is the same.  read more »

As you are aware, I will be in Orlando next week and therefore will not be physically present to teach class on Tuesday or Thursday. We will, however, continue to have class through the medium of the MOO environment I’ve set up for this purpose. This is our chance to try out a little bit of distance learning. For what it’s worth, interacting with MOO is similar enough to interactive fiction that this will be good practice for what’s coming later on. There are some major differences, but the basic idea of typing commands into a text parser is the same.  read more »