An experiential undergraduate course in the English Department at Northeastern University https://f19tot.ryancordell.org Today we’ll be experimenting with Twine, “an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.” The term “non-linear” stories is a broad one, and so some folks think of Twine as a platform for making electronic literature, while others consider it a platform for making games (while others question that distinction).... Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0800 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/twine-narratives/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/twine-narratives/ Lab Report: Letterpress I: Composition Kaitlin Kerr Process Description In our third lab of the year, we began the process “composing” our Twitter bot poems in moveable type. To “compose,” we first needed to choose our font. When we walked into class, the conference table was full with entire drawers... Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-3/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-3/ Lab Report: Letterpress II: Presswork Dipshika Chawla Process Description For this lab we focused specifically on the presswork tasks in the greater letterpressing process. At the beginning of the lab, I was still working to complete the composing of the text. Once my composing stick was complete, compressed, and proofread,... Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-2/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-2/ Lab Report: Programming Literature Daliyah Middleton September 25, 2019 1). Process Description: In this lab, we worked on creating Twitter bots based on short pieces of literature (of our choosing) to interact directly with the world of digital literacy. We began with an introduction to bots and their multitude of... Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-1/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/model-lab-1/ every figure of speech, snowclone, cliché, joke, proposition, statement, and practically every linguistic structure that can be turned into a template is easily explored with a bot. Every work of literature, every writer’s body of work, every literary movement, national literature, and textual corpus is waiting to be analyzed with... Wed, 18 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/Programming-Lit/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/Programming-Lit/ You will write your reading prep assignments and lab reports in this class using the MultiMarkdown standard, and you will commit those files to a Github Classroom repository as you work. Today will will learn about both Github and Markdown. Required Software A Github or Github Education account Github Desktop... Mon, 09 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0700 https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/Markdown-and-Github/ https://f19tot.ryancordell.org/Markdown-and-Github/