Good morning everyone! Today, as our introduction to Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road we will be exploring an e-text of the first pages of chapter one. Your assignment is to read the excerpt of On the Road and fill out the Reading Experience Survey which you will find at the bottom of the text.
Explore the hyperlinks found in the text in any way that you want and keep in mind how this type of electronic reading is different than reading from a paper version of the novel. Please click on the following link and enjoy Kerouac's On the Road.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
one laptop for every child
There are roughly one billion school age children in the world....will they all have a PC one day?
http://www.radioopensource.org/one-laptop-per-child/
http://www.radioopensource.org/one-laptop-per-child/
Monday, February 26, 2007
The Library of Alexandria
“Electronic texts could turn into a reality the old but never fulfilled fantasy of complete knowledge. Like the library of Alexandria, they promise the universal availability of all texts ever written, of all books ever published”( Origgi 6).
What are the risks then of a realized digital updated version of the Library of Alexandria accessible by all people? In an interview with Gloria Origgi, editor of text-e, Eco explains what he believes is the “primary metaphysical risk” of the unsystematic filtering process which the Web’s content undergoes by its readers. Eco believes that because each reader brings with them their criteria and purposes for reading, “we’ll end up with a civilization in which every person has his own system of filters, in other words where every person creates his own encyclopedia. Now a society with five billion concurrent encyclopedias is a society in which there is no more communication” (origgi 179). Could this be the greatest risk we run in creating a publicly accessible e-library which contains an updated catalogue of “complete knowledge”? While the library itself, and the volumes contained within it, would be a globally collaborative social effort, would the use of its contents become a completely individualized and isolating activity? How could a system of standardized filters, for content authority and publisher validity, be developed for Web based texts which would not discriminate against those writers with little or no official credibility but who possess valid and useful content that would enrich the universal library? What does it mean to "enrich" the library? Who would determine this?
What are the risks then of a realized digital updated version of the Library of Alexandria accessible by all people? In an interview with Gloria Origgi, editor of text-e, Eco explains what he believes is the “primary metaphysical risk” of the unsystematic filtering process which the Web’s content undergoes by its readers. Eco believes that because each reader brings with them their criteria and purposes for reading, “we’ll end up with a civilization in which every person has his own system of filters, in other words where every person creates his own encyclopedia. Now a society with five billion concurrent encyclopedias is a society in which there is no more communication” (origgi 179). Could this be the greatest risk we run in creating a publicly accessible e-library which contains an updated catalogue of “complete knowledge”? While the library itself, and the volumes contained within it, would be a globally collaborative social effort, would the use of its contents become a completely individualized and isolating activity? How could a system of standardized filters, for content authority and publisher validity, be developed for Web based texts which would not discriminate against those writers with little or no official credibility but who possess valid and useful content that would enrich the universal library? What does it mean to "enrich" the library? Who would determine this?
Monday, February 19, 2007
Text as Art-Art as Text
Here are a few examples of text, poems, displayed visually with the help of three collaborators. A sculptor, a writer, and a painter.
http://english.uiowa.edu/faculty/bolton/artworks1.html
http://english.uiowa.edu/faculty/bolton/artworks1.html
will we disappear...?
the computers are coming for our jobs. distance learning is spreading its cables and tentacles. degrees are awarded to students who never enter a classroom.......where do we come in?
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Podcasts spreading the word at the speed of sound.
I have created a link to Wesley Fryer's Blog, a self-proclaimed digital storyteller and change agent. He has many links, discussions and downloads concerning podcasts and how they are being used for lectures, collaborative thinking, and teaching. www.speedofcreativity.org
Many of us own ipods and know what podcasts are, but their purpose is beings expanded and used very effectively by educators looking to tap into the potentiality of every form of digital technology. spreading the word at the speed of sound.
Many of us own ipods and know what podcasts are, but their purpose is beings expanded and used very effectively by educators looking to tap into the potentiality of every form of digital technology. spreading the word at the speed of sound.
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