Congratulations Dr Jess Laccetti!
Tomorrow my first-ever PhD student, Jess Laccetti, will graduate at De Montfort University. Not only is she my first PhD student, she is also the first to graduate through the IOCT. She's so busy that's it's hard to keep up with everything she does, so I stole this list of current projects from her website:
Update: Spring/Summer Term: *** Supervising a Master's Thesis for the IOCT MA in Creative Technologies. *** Creating second installment of Education Pack for Inanimate Alice *** Writing journal article on narrative possibilities and links in web fiction *** Writing Curatorial Essay for Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media Salon/Presentation Event (marking 2 years of the course) *** Managing the Online Identity of a few online gaming companies ***
-- and that's just in the last few months! Jess is multi-talented and has a wonderful future ahead of her so watch out for her name..... (I stole this photo too)
Sue thanks too for the lovely books you gave me as a grad gift! Really very kind.
Posted by: Jess | July 18, 2008 at 03:57 PM
Ah gee thanks Sue!!!
Re: looking for signs on your birthday...hope about the happy graduation of your first-ever phd student!!! That's pretty auspicious!
Posted by: Jess | July 18, 2008 at 02:32 PM
To see really exciting new multimedia literacy try out Inanimate Alice. http://www.inanimatealice.com And its a free online resource!
More an interactive piece of fiction than a traditional game, Inanimate Alice: Episode 4 continues the story of the young game animator as she leaves her home in Russia and travels abroad. Inanimate Alice serves as both entertainment and a peek into the future of literature as a fusion of multimedia technologies. The haunting images and accompanying music and text weave a remarkably gripping tale that must be experienced to be believed.
And better still for schools there is a piece of software now available that allows learners to create their own stories. Valuable for all forms of literacy and this is being sold as a perpetual site licence for schools at £99 ! http://www.istori.es
Posted by: alan | July 16, 2008 at 11:32 AM