Two goals here:
- I want to start narrowing my focus from World of Warcraft play in general to the specific learning activities involved. I would also like to begin matching my original intentions (as loose as they may have been) to my new discoveries and findings.
- There has been some specific feedback on the blog that the posts are just too darn long! This is probably true. I would like to keep the posts as brief as possible from now on and try to contain topics within more discrete blocks.
These are my areas of focus (there will definitely be overlap between these)
Gender: Are all boys warriors and Are all girls night elves? 
Language and Representation: You have just discovered the Searing Gorge! W00t!
The Body: This is your body on WoW
Strategic Systems: The economy, talent specing, and organizing information
Groups: Guilds, Parties, Raids, and Duels
Context, Schema, and Patterns: Why does every zone have a mine?
2 comments:
I actually had a Night Elf Warrior for a little while. When I asked people to party with me to go run instances they didn't mind until I said I had a boyfriend. They then proceeded to INSIST that I was a gay guy and not really a girl and pulled the whole "Anybody can be a girl on the internet" thing and justified it because I was a warrior and "girls are never warriors". I actually had to drop the character because I could only play with friends from real life. This is probably similiar to the small number of girls in math and science majors and when they do a lot of them drop that major after a few years in it. Bleh. Boys are dumb sometimes. At least I have RL friends though :P
I haven't played since we started doing outlines for our research projects in English. I do know someone who hasn't been doing researching because they've been playing WoW though =X
I am so jealous. I honestly want to be addicted. I feel left out. Why, cruel world? Whyyyy!!!
At least I am wasting hours a day at SimCity, but there isn't a cult following. I am all alone :P
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