Showing posts with label Herodotus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herodotus. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The table and the screen: a curious resistance

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I've seen it frequently enough both in myself and in people I'm talking to—notably my students and my classicist colleagues—that it ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The end of KTHMA

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. I'm deep in the midst of planning not one but two more practomimetic courses f...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Operation KTHMA: The end of the mission, the birth of the practomimetic course, part 2—doomed mission to Methone

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. On Friday, in the final class-session of Operation KTHMA, I killed my students. Ne...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Operation KTHMA: handing over the reins

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. Here's what I uploaded over the weekend to the KTHMA team. The idea of requiri...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Operation KTHMA: arts, crafts, and card-based combat

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. The boss-fight with the High Priest of Apollo at Delphi delivered the information ...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Operation KTHMA: the road to Delphi

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Yesterday the team made its way from Athens to Delphi by way of a series of short encounters with their new acquaintance Olorides, who turns...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Operation KTHMA: aristocratic feuding by torchlight

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. One of the students said something at the end of class on Friday that I don't ...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Boss-fight!

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Last Wednesday, the operatives' Athenian hosts were led by their new acquaintance Aristides into a section of the city they had never se...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Memories of Egypt

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One thing I probably could have foressen if I had thought about it, but which has nevertheless taken me by surprise, is the effect that the ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Operation KTHMA: the logagonistic system

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See this hub for a guide to my posts on Operation KTHMA. Last Wednesday, the KTHMA team (that is, the students of CAMS 3212) tried out the ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Closing in on Homer

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The unexpected development of Friday was that the more-or-less standard—that is, just students and a teacher talking about stuff—discussion ...

Operation KTHMA post-hub

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Here's a hub for my posts about Operation KTHMA aka UConn CAMS 3212, my role-playing course about the Greek historians Herodotus and Th...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Day 4

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The dice—one six-sided die for each class-team, borrowed from my kids' copy of Yahtzee —went out yesterday. I'd been going back and ...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Day 3

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Actual in-world gameplay for the first time yesterday! In the time between Day 2 and Day 3, one of the operatives, to my delighted astonishm...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Operation KTHMA: Day 2

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Yesterday the operatives (students) began their training on the TSTT (TextoSpatioTemporal Transport) System. At the start of the class-sessi...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Playing the past

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SPOILER WARNING: If you are enrolled in CAMS 3212, I recommend that you read this post after the course is over. I want to see if I can get ...