Social & Political Issues
Facilitated by ISTE Games & Simulations Network
Welcome to Week 3 of Rapid Responses
The focus for rapid response this week is on interactive fiction or as it is also known IF.
Here's the icebreaker for this week:
We have a number of ISTE Games & Sims member who have a punk rock background from their youth.
Please enjoy the video, London Calling below. This sound is by the Clash with Joe Strummer as the lead singer.
We'd like you to find a song that inspires you and share it with us over twitter. Use the hashtag #rapidresponsedu. Go ahead and grab a picture and make a meme. Also to to our flickr site and post there for discussion.
Here's the icebreaker for this week:
We have a number of ISTE Games & Sims member who have a punk rock background from their youth.
Please enjoy the video, London Calling below. This sound is by the Clash with Joe Strummer as the lead singer.
We'd like you to find a song that inspires you and share it with us over twitter. Use the hashtag #rapidresponsedu. Go ahead and grab a picture and make a meme. Also to to our flickr site and post there for discussion.
Google Hangout on Wednesday at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT
Executive Order Worked Example - Japanese Internment Camp
Weekly Rapid Response Project (Create and Curate)
Each week you can work individually or in a group. Go into discord and post "Looking for Group" anytime.
Our week starts on Monday and goes until Sunday. The Wednesday night hangout is used for a worked example by the facilitating group.
For your project this week, responding to social and political issues, you have several choices.
1) Go on to the Indivisble website. Take a look around the website but don't leave until you go to the Act Locally Page.
Find an event this weekend and attend it! Tweet it out to using the hashtag #rapidresponsedu. Curate the tweets using Storify and share the link with us. Create an activity where your students can do the same.
2) Play the interactive fiction game and create an activity for your students based on a current social issue.
Gods Will Be Watching - Ethics game (recommendation from the ISTE Games and Sims Network).
3) Play a game with a social or political theme and record your play with commentary.
This is called a Let's Play or an LP video (For more on this genre).
Google Hangout automatically records each Hangout and uploads it to your YouTube Channel.
It's your choice. You may decide to do short game or a longer one where you invite other people into the Hangout.
YouTube gives you the ability to do some editing on this. Play around with the edit options on it to see.
If you want to get a bit more serious, you can download the Google Hangout as MP4 and edit it in Camtasia.
Most likely your institution has a learning technology center where you can use a copy of this editing tool.
4) In YouTube, as long as you have create a YouTube account and are logged in, you can create a playlist of your own videos or other people's video. Create a curated playlist of social and political issues as resource. This curation can be very valuable to educators who might not have the time to filter through all the possible videos.
Have other ideas? You can come up with your own ideas for projects on social and political issues.
Share them in Discord! Remember our goal is to create and curate.
Our week starts on Monday and goes until Sunday. The Wednesday night hangout is used for a worked example by the facilitating group.
For your project this week, responding to social and political issues, you have several choices.
1) Go on to the Indivisble website. Take a look around the website but don't leave until you go to the Act Locally Page.
Find an event this weekend and attend it! Tweet it out to using the hashtag #rapidresponsedu. Curate the tweets using Storify and share the link with us. Create an activity where your students can do the same.
2) Play the interactive fiction game and create an activity for your students based on a current social issue.
Gods Will Be Watching - Ethics game (recommendation from the ISTE Games and Sims Network).
3) Play a game with a social or political theme and record your play with commentary.
This is called a Let's Play or an LP video (For more on this genre).
Google Hangout automatically records each Hangout and uploads it to your YouTube Channel.
It's your choice. You may decide to do short game or a longer one where you invite other people into the Hangout.
YouTube gives you the ability to do some editing on this. Play around with the edit options on it to see.
If you want to get a bit more serious, you can download the Google Hangout as MP4 and edit it in Camtasia.
Most likely your institution has a learning technology center where you can use a copy of this editing tool.
4) In YouTube, as long as you have create a YouTube account and are logged in, you can create a playlist of your own videos or other people's video. Create a curated playlist of social and political issues as resource. This curation can be very valuable to educators who might not have the time to filter through all the possible videos.
Have other ideas? You can come up with your own ideas for projects on social and political issues.
Share them in Discord! Remember our goal is to create and curate.
Resources
Japanese Internment Camp
Here are the materials that were used for the Japanese Internment Camp IF session.
Japanese Internment Interactive Fiction by tfickle
Google celebrates Fred Korematsu, who fought against Japanese internment
No-No Boy by John Okada
Teaching John Okada’s No-No Boy
Loyalty Oath
If you didn't already use these, consider the following Interaction Fiction (IF)
Immigration Interactive Fiction (IF)s
The Migrant (Interactive Fiction) by Mr C Evans
Papers Please by Luke Pope discussion
Republia
This game was developed by Lucas Pope, the creator of Papers Please. If you participated in the Summer 2015 Metagame Book club, you might remember Jon Spike discussing it as part of the Dystopian arcade.
Memes and Images
Memes trump articles on Breitbart’s Facebook Page (2017 January 30), Renner N. Columbia Journalism Review
Here are the materials that were used for the Japanese Internment Camp IF session.
Japanese Internment Interactive Fiction by tfickle
Google celebrates Fred Korematsu, who fought against Japanese internment
No-No Boy by John Okada
Teaching John Okada’s No-No Boy
Loyalty Oath
If you didn't already use these, consider the following Interaction Fiction (IF)
Immigration Interactive Fiction (IF)s
The Migrant (Interactive Fiction) by Mr C Evans
Papers Please by Luke Pope discussion
Republia
This game was developed by Lucas Pope, the creator of Papers Please. If you participated in the Summer 2015 Metagame Book club, you might remember Jon Spike discussing it as part of the Dystopian arcade.
Memes and Images
Memes trump articles on Breitbart’s Facebook Page (2017 January 30), Renner N. Columbia Journalism Review
Week 3 Google Document
Please post a link to your rapid response project on this Google Document.
Add a short paragraph descriptor also.
The link can to be anything that can be publicly accessed on the Internet.
If you want to password protect it, please let us know the password.
Add a short paragraph descriptor also.
The link can to be anything that can be publicly accessed on the Internet.
If you want to password protect it, please let us know the password.