Oct 31 2006
The revised version of my paper Communication, Coordination, and Camaraderie in World of Warcraft was what I used for my Research and Inquiry paper and presentation. Woot! I left up my old draft on this blog so people can compare the two if they feel so inclined… make the process transparent and all… yeah.
Oct 31 2006
So, the process to get a PhD here in the College of Ed at UW follows a bunch of steps. They say these steps are in the student manual, but the manual was vague as to a timeline… It was rewritten over the summer but I haven’t looked at it yet…
But anyway, here’s the deal for all you newbies! (may want to see the various forms you can download and the student manual…)
Oct 12 2006
Check out this game!
See, this is why I haven’t looked too closely at web games. Who has time??
Oct 12 2006
I’m not going to write much about it here, as I’m still trying to digest what happened, but let’s just say that over the summer the raid group I was a part of imploded in a huge drama fest. Additionally, on several occassions, talk between Harsh Winter officers and elders became heated. These two cases make an interesting comparison, where how the drama from one was handled eventually led to its demise while the other is still alive… though hardly satisfactory to some of the affected parties. Okay, this post is vague…. sorry. I’ll post more about it after all the crap for school is over. For now, there is a good read on guild trust and goals over at Terra Nova.
Oct 12 2006
So, I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve been really busy with the start of the school year because I procrastinated all summer on writing a book review (for T. L. Taylor’s Play Between Worlds which is a very good read, btw) and revising my paper on my World of Warcraft raid’s practices in Molten Core in time for a presentation I am doing as one of the sessions in a mini-conference of presentations that a ton of other College of Ed PhD students are also a part of on Oct 27. We have to do this to progress to PhD candidacy which lets us take our general exams and work on our dissertations.
The more I think about it, the more I think I should write more about navigating academia. But damn, it is just so tiring…
Oct 10 2006
Here I was trying to figure out whether to publish videos to Google or to YouTube and then recommend something to the TEP class… Well, now it looks like I won’t have to decide. :)
Oct 09 2006
Just got back from a trip down to CA. My sister Frances got married on Sat! Grats Frances!
Anyway, I’ll post some photos later. :P
