CLASS ACTIVITIES

• Discussion of the Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials due today assigned by Alicia and Aria
• Work on your own Interactive Non-Fiction Storytelling projects (as time allows)
• Game design brainstorming exercise and/or gameplay from Games for Actors and Non-Actors (as time allows)

READING DUE TODAY

• "Gaming to cope: how developers are tackling real life" by Nina White
• "15 Games To Teach Kids About Social Issues" by Matt Farber
• Best Social Skills Games For Teaching Kids Social SKill
  
• "Why it's good for grown ups to go play" by Jennifer Wallace
• Aesthetics of game art and design by Chris Solarski
• Thank you for Watching documentary
• Alicia Readings - Empathy and VR:
• "Power Poses Co Author: I Do Not Believe the Effects are Real" by Maquita Peters
• "CAN VR REALLY MAKE YOU MORE EMPATHETIC?" by Sarah Zhang
• "Short- and long-term effects of embodied experiences in immersive virtual environments on environmental locus of control and behavior"  (skim, look at procedure and results)
• "The Limits of Virtual Reality: Debugging the Empathy Machine" by Ainsley Sutherland
• "The case for compassion, not empathy" 
• Identifiable Victim Effect
• "Empathy is Not a Mirror" presentation discussion (will view in class)
• "When Kids Meet a Creature" original proposal- sections about empathy

PLAYING/EXPLORING DUE TODAY

• That Dragon, Cancer (2016), by Numinous Games [Note that the mobile version is $4.99 and the Mac/PC version is $9.99. Of course, you may also choose not to purchase it and research the game by reading about it, watching gameplay videos, etc.]
• The Machine to Be Another, by BeAnotherLab (look up other video examples)

DUE TODAY

• Cebe and Dorothy: by end-of-day today (midnight), please make sure to include in the schedule the Read/Watch/Play/Explore materials you will like us to review for next week's class. Note that you are not expected or required to lead the discussion together; you each will present your own materials and topics for approximately 45-60 minutes. However, you do need to coordinate in order to ensure that the quantity of materials you are assigning is balanced and appropriate.