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9:58am on Saturday, 27th March, 2021:
Anecdote
Having mentioned that I was pre-recording my lectures this year, some of you asked if I could make them publicly available. Because I released them piecemeal (so the students couldn't binge-watch them), they weren't all available for public consumption until the end of the spring term. The spring term duly ended yesterday, so for those of you who are interested I append links to my talks.
First, though, some context.
CE217 is my game design module. It's the first games-specific module that students experience, so covers more than just game design. Elsewhere, it would be Computer Games 101, except it's for second-years (out of three). CE317 is my virtual worlds module. It's pretty well Computer Games 201 for most of the time, but with a bias towards virtual worlds. Some of the students taking it are postgraduates doing taught courses; their module is called CE817, but the lectures (if not the assessments) are the same.
The recordings cover most, but not all, of what the students are given. There are handouts, assignments and other materials that I refer to in the recordings which are not available outside of the university. These aren't going to be especially useful to non-students, but then I don't suppose the recordings will be, either. I'm only making them available so that people with an interest in the subject matter can peruse them until they wish they hadn't.
I need to emphasise that these lectures were not intended for public viewing. They're very specific to Essex University and its students. There are many, many assumptions about the audience, and these won't necessarily apply to you. Expect anything you watch to be boring, irrelevant, self-important and obscure.
You can also expect some of it to be offensive. Anyone wanting to ruin my life and career could probably take snippets from these recordings to demonstrate that I'm a <something>ist or a <something>phobe, or just a general <something>. Griefers will grief, and even non-griefers will sometimes grief if they're intolerant enough. Unguarded offence-inducing comments could happen anywhere in the recordings, because jokes and asides made to students who know me are not the same as jokes and asides to random people off the Internet. Offence is particularly likely to be taken in some of the discussion lectures, though, because these normally take place as interactive classes in which I ask the students to comment on what's going on. Because I couldn't do that this time round, I had to state the different points of view myself. Some of these I most certainly don't agree with, but I had to put them forward anyway because the whole point of a discussion class is for students to consider the issues from multiple perspectives. They won't get to do that that unless they hear more than one side to the argument.
The lectures average about two hours in length and there were two a week. There are 18 for CE217 (because the second-years had other work in the first week) and 20 for CE317 (although lecture 13 was a live lecture so wasn't pre-recorded). You can see from this why I didn't want to encourage binge-watching.
The lectures were recorded straight, with no editing, so the students get the same "the old fool can't even remember what he told us last time" experience they would in a live lecture.
Here are the links, anyway. My apologies in advance for their not being quite what you were hoping they would be...
CE217
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Lecture 18
CE317/CE817
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Lecture 18
Lecture 19
Lecture 20
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