1st Edition

New Storytelling Learning through Metaphors

By Anna Ursyn Copyright 2026
356 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

356 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

356 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

There is a global need to become less fearful of coding, as it improves communication with the coders on the job and helps with prompt writing, which hiring companies often request. This set of story-based learning projects links performances and tasks with computing codes to show how a machine translates our goals into its language. Metaphors link instructions telling a computer what task to... Read more

1.       Dance Code, Internet Exchange

2.       Music Code, Live Cosmic Book Theater

3.       Tools & Rules, The Elements and Principles of Art across Disciplines

4.       Cognitive Perceptions, Two Commenters in a Drone

5.       Art Code, An Internship

6.       Sports Code, Duality on a Plane

7.       Math Code, A Cafe Experience at a Conference

8.       Bank Code, A Restroom Conversation

9.       Nature Code, A Fishing Trip

10.   Text Code, A Driving Exchange

11.   Bio Code, An Artificial Intelligence Class Ballet

12.   Carbon Code, Nine Trapped in an Elevator

13.   Code Code, Forces

14.   Perspective Code, Architectural Tour of a Town

15.   Water Code, A Kitchen Scene

16.   Physics Code, A Ski Lift Exchange

17.   Geo Code, A Dinner Conversation

18.   Memory Code, A Birdwatching, a Walking Exchange

19.   Heart Code, Told and Illustrated From the Rats’ Perspective

20.   History Code, History of Inventions, Computer Languages

21.   Mind Code, Through the Cats’ Experience

22.  Law Code, I Did Not Do It

23.   Word Code, Learning on the Train

24.   Chemistry Code, Swimmer-Chemist, Chemist-Swimmer

25.   Code Dance, From Joy to Protest

26.   Dress Code, A Shopping Encounter

27.   World Code, Questions and Answers Session

28.   Future Code, Come, Join the Party! Grand Finale

29.   Education Code, Teacher-Artist, Artist-Teacher

30.   Moral

Biography

Anna Ursyn, PhD, professor at the University of Northern Colorado, combines programming, software, and various media. 50 single shows, 200 fine art exhibitions: 12x ACM SIGGRAPH Art Galleries, traveling shows: Louvre, Paris, NTT Museum in Tokyo (5000 texts, 2000 images representing the 20th Century), Virtual Media Network, Dallas, TX work selected by NASA/CMU for the Moon Museum: http://moonarts.org/, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Denver Capitol, and Airport. And by ABAD 1/2 is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.