May 27th class

Today was definitely a large discussion day. The class started out slightly "sideways" as the students who arrived early were discussing video games. When class officially started, the conversation emerged into quite a conversation on games and ethics. We talked about how far video games had come. Other topics we brought up within the video game world was the topic of "When have they gone too far?" Everyone agreed that if you were playing a zombie game and you could actually smell charred flesh, they would not play the game. So the main question of the first part of class was "What is ok and What isn't?" We even watched a few videos on YouTube about video games and different aspects of the interactivity.

The second half of class we talked about the final research project. We looked at a few examples of research type projects that were acceptable. The whole research project however, as a whole, is quite open and free for personal interpretation. After some discussion of the final project, we looked at ted.com. I had never heard of ted.com in my entire life. I must say though it was quite interesting and I am definitely going to look into it more as the site is filled with great videos on the most unique subjects.

After a few closing statements and some comments about next week's excercise (a What if part 2) then we dispersed from the classroom.

Until next time! Have a great weekend!