nm1/09 -- comment(s) / statistic(s) / error(s)

  • 31/10/09 -- some minor update in status files, a.o. Irene, Reinout, Sarah, Joost, Pieter, Thomas, Martina, ..., and Bram, ...
  • 27/10/09 -- all in all the worst page(s) election(s) were a great success, and even got into the .CREATE blog(s), not only because of the great variety of annoying pages and what may be called an ingenious display of bad taste, but in a more direct sense due to the fact that almost everybody participated, showing a suitable to high level of technical skills, and that is what the NM1 course is all about, after all. Looking at these pages, I am confident that all students can finalize their portfolios, and use web technology in future projects to document ideas and plans, as well as for great visual effects or other types of feedback in game play.

    • As an advice to the students, take the opportunity to work out ideas for future projects, and explore the technologies that you may later need, including sqlite database technology, web-based streaming video, and why not 3D visualation libraries, such as papervision3D. All these topics are suitable for short essays as well! And, remember, if you do not write down your ideas, you will likely forget them, and probably not be able to communicate these ideas to others when needed and time is pressing.

    For further exploration(s), read interactive space(s) -- the CTSG: bridging the real and virtual.

  • 16/10/09 -- I did a round over the Portfolio(s), which mostly are still blogs, and for those that updated them, an interesting read, indeed. As Herjan remarked, it is now time for technical work, not finally, but simply time. As concerns web technology, interesting site(s) were posted by Douwe and Arthur, and (I almost forgot) Pieter, as well as nice clip(s) by Reinout and John Doe (aka again Reinout), and I have already seen some pretty bad, that is good, pages for the worst page competition, that will take place monday 26/10/09.

    • Many of you, however, still seem not to be on track, and for those my advice is: get to work. Do not hesitate to experiment, and use copy/paste and explore as a method. It is not that I discredit books, but in some way you have to learn to work in a context in which there are many things you do not know, or want to know, much about.

    As a technical tip, take in particular a look at the jquery and processing examples, since this is the glue that can bind many things together, and although to some these things may at first sight to be apparently useless, in the end, that means in other courses you will need these fragments and your skills to make something worthwhile, such as a locative game as part of the CTSGs, whether it is useful or not. As for that, and indeed I was a little annoyed by the phrase, do not expect to learn anything useful in my courses, but take the opportunity to select a topic of your interest, and develop your skills within that particular subdomain, by exploration and adaptation to a suitable context. Take a playful approach, but be productive!

    Since we did not manage to create much online identity in CA1, due to the SmartXP Exhibit, take the opportunity for the final assignment to work on the group site, set up by Jan, with in mind (y)our motto: together we create!

    See you monday 919/10/09, and for the topics look at the schedule(s). And, be in time!
    Also do not forget to look at your status in participant(s). There is one month more to go.

    And, finally, if you have no portfolio online yet, or changed your portfolio/url wrt to NM1, send me an email with the url, ASAP!
    Make no mistake, no (NM1) portfolio, no (NM1) grading. After all, the creative industry is a portfolio industry!

  • 12/10/09 -- CTSG (location) workshop 15/19:
    www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/media/@s5-sample-book-ctsg-location.html
    www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/media/@s5-sample-show-image-present-ctsg-location.html
  • 7/10/09 -- I wrote: for those ... (not knowing where to begin)
    look at www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/.CREATE/resource-jquery.html and read the introduction, and then take the listing(s), and experiment by modification, then read, verander, leer, en kijk verder