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Who'd Ever Think it? Such a Squalid Little Ending...-EL 405 Final Project Blog

The author's statement: I began this idea back in September: to re-create Deathly Hallows and end it the way I wished it had. Ideally, I would have had Harry and Snape become "friends" at the end and defeat Voldemort together....

Posted by DaniellaChoynowski on December 2, 2008 2:38 PM

Tiffany's Favorite Program for her Final Project

Interactive Fiction-The Hospital Game-2008 For EL405 (New Media Projects), I finally finished my Inform 7 Hospital game after attempting several other programs. These new programs I had been recently introduced to in the past three months lost the race for...

Posted on December 2, 2008 2:16 PM

Blog Portfolio Two - A Refresher

For most of this blogging portfolio, we had various reading assignments dealing with Writing for the Web 3.0 that offered a variety of tips and advice for writing for the internet. I can't say that during this time I learned...

Posted by West Coast Envy on October 9, 2008 11:37 AM

Round 2

It's round 2 and it's time to re-cap how far I've come in EL 236. My Portfolio 2 is in many ways different than my Porfolio 1 not simply because of different entries. This round is different because I don't...

Posted by Andy on October 9, 2008 11:18 AM

Growing Up Bloggy

For the second part of Portfolio Two for EL 236, I don't feel like I've learned all that much, I feel that I've observed more so this time around. This time around I see that I put more depth into more...

Posted by ChelseaOliver on October 8, 2008 1:38 AM

Newbie Outlook for a Pro

I have to say that overall, I enjoyed Crawford Kilian's book Writing for the Web 3.0 that was part of our reading for EL 236 - Writing for the Internet for some recent assignments. And as part of another assingment, we...

Posted by ChelseaOliver on October 7, 2008 8:22 PM

Blogs and Propoganda

So, as far as the various types of blogs mentioned, I was mostly entertained by this type: "One of the striking aspects of this [introverted blogs] genre is the author's denigration of himself: the blog is purported to be "chaos," "random,"...

Posted by DavidWilbanks on October 2, 2008 12:39 AM

So I'm a "Blender Blog" too

I did something that I rarely ever do when blogging for class, which is read other classmates entries before writing my own. But since it is early, I only found Andy's blogs done for class on Wednesday. So before writing my...

Posted by ChelseaOliver on September 29, 2008 5:40 PM

Blender Blog

"Of course these categories of blogs often overlap. A news blog may be specialized, like World Cup Blog. It may include personal comments and social observations, and may strongly advocate a particular agenda. Still, the genres tend to stand apart...

Posted by Andy on September 29, 2008 9:53 AM

A new beginning-blog 110!

I can't believe I've written that many...anyhow since there is no slot for turnitin.com for EL 405, here is my goal statement: Daniella Choynowski 8/27/2008 New Media Projects Dr Jerz Goal Statement Blender 3-D This one is easily the most...

Posted by DaniellaChoynowski on August 28, 2008 7:02 PM

First Blog in Forever

So I was youtubing blender videos wondering if people actually did post them. (And they do.) In class, if you thought the silk, shiny blanket was cool. This video has animated water! With sound effects! I was impressed. View NOW....

Posted on August 26, 2008 9:47 PM

3D Hectopus Animation

I made this walk cycle with Blender3D. He pauses too long at the beginning and of the cycle, but I know how to fix that now....

Posted by jerz on August 3, 2007 8:15 PM

Chumby Mascot

A "chumby" is a little internet gadget with an LCD screen sewn into a soft bag. This is the company logo: A papercrafting blogger who works for chumby released this 3D version... ...which he says he made in Blender3D, but...

Posted by jerz on August 3, 2007 6:50 PM

My Vacuum Really Sucks

I had to do it. I had to break down a buy a vacuum cleaner. Sure, my Great Aunt Peg gave me her itty bitty squealer on a cord, but it got clogged with Trixie's hair just about every five...

Posted by Karissa on June 14, 2007 9:59 PM

New Media Proects Final

Final Presentation Gallery -- Jerz: New Media Projects (EL405) Final Presentation Gallery "New Media Projects" introduces students to Inform 7, The Games Factory 2, Flash,...

Posted by jerz on December 13, 2006 2:39 PM

Final Presentation Gallery

"New Media Projects" introduces students to Inform 7, The Games Factory 2, Flash, Blender 3D, and Hammer. All students completed short projects in each medium, and selected a tool to use for a midterm and a final project. Students kept...

Posted by jerz on December 13, 2006 8:53 AM

EL405: Blog Portfolio III: The Reckoning

It looks like this is going to be my last formal, academic blogging portfolio. I...

Posted by Mike Rubino on December 13, 2006 3:09 AM

EL405 Final 'folio

Writing for the Internet was my favorite course at Seton Hill. Was. This semester has been full of challenges and fast-paced learning in New Media Projects, and I loved it. Inform 7 and Hammer were my favorite programs, with Blender...

Posted by Stormy Knight on December 11, 2006 3:07 PM

EL405 The Last Portfolio You'll Get from Me This Semester and This Year

Yeah. Yeah, see? This is going to be the last portfolio I do until 2007, okay? Okay. (Okay, maybe I'm just losing it because the end is near...) This final stretch of the semester has been interesting on all fronts--not...

Posted by Karissa on December 10, 2006 4:19 PM

EL405 Finally: Hammer Zombies!

Hooray for Hammer! When I saw in last week's class that Mike and Stephan got to make zombies in their game, I was a little jealous... If there's going to be any killing of any kind in a video game,...

Posted by Karissa on December 6, 2006 6:31 PM