Workshop: Becoming A Professional Youtuber

Hosted by the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts and the Department of Literature and Languages:

Dr. Matt Barton will be leading a hands-on workshop on “Becoming A Professional Youtuber: Interviewing, Video Editing, Production, And Community Engagement.”

Where: BA 339
When: Friday, April 12, 2013
1:00-5:00

See his YouTube program, Matt Chat:

http://www.youtube.com/user/blacklily8

The workshop is offered for free to students, faculty, and staff at A&M-Commerce, but seating is limited (20), and so pre-registration is required.

This event is sponsored by the College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts and the Department of Literature and Languages.

Pre-register by emailing Robin.Reid@tamuc.edu Put “Barton Workship” in the subject line.

Dr. Barton is an associate professor of English at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He is host of Matt Chat, a weekly YouTube program dedicated to classic videogames for all systems. Matt Chat has been featured on several prominent Websites, including Geek.com, Game Banshee, Blue’s News, Tech Report, and RPG Codex. The show features historical retrospectives on important games as well as personal interviews with their developers and designers, including John Romero, Timothy Cain, Chris Avellone, and many others. He is the author of Honoring the Code: Conversations with Great Game Designers, author of Dungeons & Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games(nominated for Game Developer Magazine’s 2008 Front Line Award), author of Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time, and editor ofWiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom. He is a founder of Armchair Arcade, a PC Magazine Top 100 Website mentioned on Slashdot, Boing Boing, Slate, and many other prominent tech and game-related publications and Websites. His other games-related writings have been published on Gamasutra and Game Studies. He is currently writing and producing a feature film documentary called Gameplay: The Story of the Videogame Revolution, for Lux Digital Pictures. Matt is presently responsible for Armchair Arcade’s technical and editorial direction, as well as general content generation. Be sure to check out Matt and his work at the following links: [LinkedIn] [Facebook] [Twitter] [Amazon Author Page] [YouTube]