Saturday, 4 October 2008

An Opening Statement

As part of the continuing development of the History and Analysis module of the CVG course at The University of Salford, I will be running this Blog (as discussed in the introductory session of the module).

I should first make an opening statement, that this Blog is not an official or mandatory part of the H&A3 module and is not officially linked The University of Salford in any way. It is an experiment in course development and a place for members of the course to share ideas, links and feedback on ideas discussed in class.

This Blog will run alongside the course and is a way for us to continue to share research, hypotheses about games and their analysis and development, as we develop our ideas as an open research community.

I think as this is not my Blog but a Blog or our Blog, I must catch you up on a few choices that I have made towards it. I have chosen for the Blog to be a blogger blog as apposed to the wordpress Blog discussed in the introductory session. This is for a number of reasons, firstly it is a system that I have used before so it was easier for me to set up instead of having to start from scratch, secondly after chatting to a number of people that consider themselves bloggers they suggested that it would be easier to manage and lastly it is faster and easier for me and others to post to.

I feel that it is important that this experiment grows organically, so we will discuss when we next meet how to manage the content/posts/comments of the blog and how we want it to develop as we progress with it.


(please add any suggestions for the development of the blog to the comments section of this post)