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Mode / Content / Meaning = Technology / Text / Literacy

Posted on December 6, 2012 by awhetter

At the great risk of oversimplifying everything we’ve learned, I am taking away from this course the idea that: Technology = Mode/Medium Text = Content Literacy = Ability or process of creating meaning from the technology/text (or mode/content) I tried … Continue reading →

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Storytelling with Web 2.0 Tools: A New Genre?

Posted on November 30, 2012 by awhetter

The Beginning “Web 2.0 storytelling: the emergence of a new genre” by Alexander and Levine begins provocatively. In the past, according to the authors, stories had “a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped up ending” (p. 40) and were … Continue reading →

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Rainbows

Posted on November 28, 2012 by awhetter

http://storify.com/awhet/rainbows A Storify of some recent rainbows. Enjoy!

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Contradictions of Digital Literacy

Posted on November 27, 2012 by awhetter

I am interested in exploring some of the contradictions of digital literacy that are suggested by the article ““Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning.” Written by Cope and Kalantzis in 2009, the article revisits the New London Group’s influential article “A … Continue reading →

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Early Print Culture in South Asia

Posted on October 29, 2012 by awhetter

Hi everyone, Please take a look at my web essay on the Early Print Culture of South Asia at https://sites.google.com/site/awhetteretec340no3/ Thanks, Arlene

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Farewell to Fixity: The Virtual Library Fantasy

Posted on September 30, 2012 by awhetter

In “The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed,” cultural historian James J. O’Donnell challenged the ideal of a virtual library. The present-day version of this ideal – a universal, digital library that includes all the world’s literature from … Continue reading →

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The Unknown

Posted on September 14, 2012 by awhetter

Hart Seely at Slate Magazine has created found poetry from speech transcripts of various U.S. political figures… Sarah Palin, Donald Rumsfeld, and others.  The example from Donald Rumsfeld below is reproduced in the Wikipedia entry for found poetry, which is what … Continue reading →

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They are Us

Posted on September 12, 2012 by awhetter

“They mediate our actions? No, they are us.” –Bruno Latour, “On Technical Mediation: Philosophy, Sociology, Genealogy.” Common Knowledge 3: 2 (1994) pp. 29-64. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/54-TECHNIQUES-GB.pdf These are the final words in Latour’s essay referenced above. The “they” he refers to are … Continue reading →

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