{"id":307,"date":"2016-04-03T00:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/?p=307"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T23:56:53","slug":"vcu-currentlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/vcu-currentlab\/","title":{"rendered":"VCU CurrentLab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-308 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-300x256.png\" alt=\"currentscreen\" width=\"250\" height=\"*\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-768x656.png 768w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-700x598.png 700w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-232x198.png 232w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-464x396.png 464w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen-234x200.png 234w, https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentscreen.png 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a class=\"headtext\" style=\"font-size:20px\" href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/\">http:\/\/currentlab.art.vcu.edu\/<\/a><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180514064850\/http:\/\/currentlab.art.vcu.edu\/modules\/\">Internet Archive Backup<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>CurrentLab is an organization, headquartered at Virginia Commonwealth University, focused on developing and providing resources for Art Educators to teach meaningful, contemporary New Media artforms.<\/p>\n<p>In my role as CurrentLab&#8217;s Lead Curriculum Designer, I&#8217;ve developed several modules and accompanying resources, <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/\">available on the CurrentLab site<\/a>, \u00a0for teaching video game design from an arts perspective. <\/p>\n<p>The modules include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\u25cf <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/introduction-to-digital-game-design-as-art\/\">Introduction to Digital Game Design as Art<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-IntroDigital.pdf\">PDF Lesson Plan<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-IntroDigital.zip\">ZIP Resources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\u25cf <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/creating-and-traversing-virtual-spaces\/\">Creating and Traversing Virtual Spaces<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-VirtualSpaces.pdf\">PDF Lesson Plan<\/a>)(<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-VirtualSpaces.zip\">ZIP Resources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\u25cf <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/mechanics-as-metaphor\/\">Mechanics as Metaphor<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-Metaphor.pdf\">PDF Lesson Plan<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-Metaphor.zip\">ZIP Resources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\u25cf <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.vcu.edu\/academics\/departments\/art-education\/art-education-research\/currentlab\/current-lab-modules\/making-and-moving-in-the-real-world-physical-computing\/\">Making &amp; Moving in the Real World: Physical Computing<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-PhysicalComputing.pdf\">PDF Lesson Plan<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MODULE-PhysicalComputing.zip\">ZIP Resources<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The modules are designed to work with freely available Game Maker software (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180514063907\/http:\/\/currentlab.art.vcu.edu\/gamemaker-comparison-and-download\/\">downloadable from CurrentLab&#8217;s site<\/a>), and are structured to be accessible to art instructors who are novices to game design and digital artwork in general.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two modules currently in progress, focusing on narrative in games, and on effecting real-world change with games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of modules co-authored for VCU&#8217;s CurrentLab for teaching video game design in an arts context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","category-teaching"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/currentlab-image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83Pj6-4X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gildedgreen.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}