LIA Cast 03 - My Daily Burden

This time we talk about that critical moment in our lives when we discovered that we genuinely loved to learn, which spirals out into some talk on our favorite and least favorite educational experiences.

We than spend some time talking about the value of community art challenges, and ruminate a bit on what kinds of challenges we might launch within the Lean Into Art community.

We close with a little news on what's happening on the Lean Into Art website as we gear up for 30 Classes in 30 Days. Have you signed up yet? It's going to be fun.

Links mentioned in this episode:

- Lawrence Lessig talks
- Atari 400/800
- Gameification
- Carsten Bradley and his Google+ art challenges
- Comics Are Great! Episode 23
- Matt Madden
- The Comics Sestina
- Krishna Sadasivam
- Brandon Dayton
- Jonathan Rector
- Scribbles with Jonathan
- Kate Shields Stenzinger
- Nepotism

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LIA Cast 03 - My Daily Burden

Polytechnicast - Lean Into Art Announcement and Behind the Scenes

In this episode I share the news of that “secret project” I’ve been working on most all of 2011. It’s Lean Into Art! I also share a bit about the tech we’re using to launch this virtual center of learning visual and interactive arts.

Links Mentioned

• Lean Into Art
• The Big LIA Podcast Feed (LIA, Thunder Punch Daily, Polytechnicast, Fabulous Secrets)
• Art & Story
• Mark Rudolph
• Kevin Cross
• Jerzy Drozd
• Chosen Tech for LIA’s Release: Adobe Connect as our main classroom meeting software, Vyew as backup meeting software, Squarespace for hosting, Wufoo for sign-up forms
• 30 Classes in 30 Days

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Polytechnicast - Code Sketching for Artists and Programmers

In this episode I discuss how I believe code isn’t just for people with a computer-science background and that no matter your background it can be helpful to draft your code by sketching it out.

Links Mentioned and Useful Resources

• Rob’s random-sort jQuery plugin at Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Coding languages/environments mentioned (though there are many, many more worth checking out based on what tools you use and prefer) Python - a beginners guide, Lua (note: I didn’t find a solid introduction to Lua useful for programmers and non-programmers in the time I had… which means perhaps I should write one. Stay tuned.), JavaScript via jQuery for Designers JavaScript - at w3 Schools
• ProcessingJS - a programming tool and language great at visual tasks and for visual thinkers (easiest in some ways to get started with Processing JS, though you can do even more with Processing)
• Psudocode

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Introducing the Fun Loop

Introducing the Fun Loop from Rob Stenzinger on Vimeo.

The Fun Loop is a powerful concept in game design. This brief introduction gives a feel for what fun is in a game design context and how the fun loop helps with delivering an interactive flow for your game.

Fabulous Secrets 03 - Resequencing a Story

Inspired by an activity I read about on the Drawing Words, Writing Pictures blog, I recently test-ran a new lesson in my classroom that turned out to be a lot of fun for the students. I had them draw a sequence of events on some 3x5" index cards and evaluate how the story tone changed when we changed the sequence of events.

You can download a PDF of the lesson plan to try it out yourself!

Photos of some of the students' work can be seen here:

Resequencing a Story Class

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