mid-week gear check
DESCRIPTION
Week 2 Games MOOCTRANSCRIPT
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Games Based Learning MOOC
http://gamesmooc.shivtr.com
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Midweek Gear CheckWeek 2
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Games MOOC
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Avatars and Online Identity
#gamemooc Tweetchat
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Screenshots and DiscussionDaedalus Project
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MinecraftFriday Office Hours 2-4 pmOpen House Next Saturday
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MinecraftMarianne Malmstrom
Knowclue KiddNext Tuesday
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World of WarcraftFriday Office Hours 2-4 pmSaturday Google Hangout
How to Introduce World of Warcraft
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Discussion of how to Introduce WoW
Inevitable Instructors
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AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS
And the WORLDS they live in
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Screenshots and Discussion
Daedalus Project
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AVATARS, ALTS, TOONS AND THE WORLDS THEY LIVE IN
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Avatar
Sanskrit term meaning the living embodiment of a god. Neal Stephenson in his book Snowcrash popularized this term to mean online representation of self.
Often used interchangeably by gamers with toon, alt, or character.
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TOON
'Toon' is a term used gamers, especially players of massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG) for a player character in the game.
The term is a shortened form of cartoon.
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ALTs and Mains
• Alternate character, a secondary character in a MMORPG. MMORPGs often allow for multiple characters. An Alt is distinguished from a “Main.” A Main is usually the primary character one plays.
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What is a gravatar?
“Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.”
https://en.gravatar.com/
http://en.gravatar.com/
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1st Person Shooter
• FPSs show a first person perspective, that renders the game world from the visual perspective of the player character.
• You will typically not see your avatar unless there is a mirror or cinematic.
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Third Person Shooter
• Third-person shooter (TPS) is a genre of video games where the player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles.
• Common angle is looking over character’s right shoulder
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NPC• Non-player character, a
character in a role-playing game or video game who is controlled by the game rather than by a player.
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Pets & Companions
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Kid Virtual Worlds
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Naming Your Avatar
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Choose Your Avatar
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Inside the Workspace
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