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Tag Archives: writing
Making Connections
It has been challenging throughout this course to make connections between everyone’s contributions and the context of my workplace, which is not classroom based. I’ve had to redefine terms such as ‘learners’, ‘classroom’, and ‘literacy’. There were numerous postings that … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, community, permanent affiliation, social media, technology, text, visual, writing
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Rip.mix.feed connections: Or coming late to the party
This semester has been a bit of a personal struggle, but I wanted to try and participate in the rip.mix.feed activity. While I thought I would create a digital story about the life I have in SecondLife using JayCut or … Continue reading
Posted in Making Connections, Reflections, Rip.Mix.Feed, Technology, Text
Tagged Bolter, communication, Ong, writing
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Pieces of the Reading & Writing Puzzle – Rip, Mix, Feed Activity
For the Rip,Mix,Feed activity, I collected Creative Commons images on Flickr. The six images were placed together and then reworked using the jigsaw puzzle feature found on Dumpr (http://www.dumpr.net/). The images I selected represented pieces of the puzzle when it … Continue reading
Commentary #3: Print in Cyberspace
As I surf the Internet and search for different things, such as recipes, fashion advice, and so forth, I have noticed that the Internet has a plethora of websites with very similar layouts and web addresses. The posts are in … Continue reading
Tagged adora, Blog, Commentary 3, cyberspace, education, folksonomies, information, interaction, learning, literacy, microcontent, multiliteracies, Ong, print, social, text, web_2.0, writing
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Commentary on Multiliteracies
As I work through the modules and do the readings, I wondered what literacy actually encompasses. I am aware that the course is about literacy but one term has resonated in me: multiliteracy. “Multiliteracy” is a term that was devised … Continue reading
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Tagged adora, commentary_2, communication, Definition, digital, education, language, learning, literacy, literate, media, reading, technology, writing
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The Phenomenolgy of Writing: Handwriting to Typewriting
Introduction The following is a discussion of the phenomenolgy of writing and examines the transition from handwriting to typewriting. The focus of this discussion is how a technological innovation, the typewriter, modified the look and feel of writing as well … Continue reading
Modern English, Punctuation, and Word Separation
Introduction Thinking back to when I first learned to read in English, I was taught to read aloud. I was taught to sound out the words. While learning to read, I was also taught to write. It was imperative that … Continue reading
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Tagged adora, english, grammar, history, language, punctuation, research_paper, scriptura_continua, words, writing
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Of Chandler, Ong and Plato; or, Of Carts and Horses and Who’s to Blame
Plato has been widely cited for his fear-mongering proclamation in the Phaedrus declaring the newest technology – writing – as the demise of memory (e.g.: Ong, 2002, p. 78). I must admit having often been of same mind, relating fully … Continue reading
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Tagged blame, Chandler, Goody, memory, new technology, Ong, Plato, writing
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Erring with caution in a technological society- in support of the Technophiles.
Commentary on, Postman, N. (1993). Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Thinking about a technological society requires some amount of wariness, no doubt. As humans, we always tend to have the fear of the unknown. The effects of any … Continue reading →