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Connections
The blog in this course provides an interesting timeline of understanding. A way to know in what ways we’ve changed over this short period of time. The first posts I made were rather nerve wracking as others have stated. For … Continue reading
Posted in Making Connections
Tagged bias, multiple literacies, technology, technophilia, text
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Making Connections
(Avenia, 2012) I, like many of my classmates, find the resources and advice that have been shared throughout ETEC 540 to be of immense value. The conversations through Vista, Wikis, and the Weblog have captivated my attention and taught me … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, culture, digital literacy, education, literacy, technology, text
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Fairy Tales for Twentysomethings
Sleeping Beauty was lying in bed checking Facebook from her phone, just feeling so completely alone in her depression. Then she came across a post from an acquaintance about how sad he was, it was a darkness that made him … Continue reading
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Tagged books, communication, culture, digital literacy, digital natives, media, reading, technology, text, Twitter, writing
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MEDIA AS METAPHOR?
COMMENTARY 3: MEDIA AS METAPHOR? Reading the last two chapters of Bolter’s Writing Space I found myself wondering what does ‘writing the self’ mean?, what would be the implications of this process? Bolter (2011) immediately suggests that “it seems almost … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, culture, digital literacy, digital media, literacy, mcluhan, Ong, postman, remediation, self, text, Turkle, web 2.0, writing
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The Latest Meme: Multiliteracies Emerging, Mainly Everyday (and what to do about them)
The recent form or state of the Internet is often referred to as “Web 2.0”, which signifies a large change in form and use since it was first used widely. In his 2008 article, Bryan Alexander defines Web 2.0 as … Continue reading
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Web 2.0: A Modern Manuscript
Hello, I have chosen to write my third commentary about how web 2.0 is bringing together many aspects of writing technologies, past and present. Because I wanted to embed Twitter and Blog feeds into the text to support my argument … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogs, remediation, Social Media, text, Twitter, web 2.0
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The Power of Images and Sound
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/48236494[/vimeo] I came upon this video by accident today, and, aside from bringing a rush of feelings and memories, it made me think of this course. It reminded me of our readings about text forms becoming more visual (for better … Continue reading
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A new landscape.
In his attempt to examine the changing landscape of representation and communication, Gunther Kress’s (2005) article titled, “Gains and losses: New forms of texts, knowledge and Learning” raises many discussion points that are helpful for analyzing this field. His primary … Continue reading
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Visual to Textual to Visual: Modes of Representation
Tara Avenia Visuals Remediating Text Bolter (2001) begins the fourth chapter in Writing Space “The Break out of the Visual” with an assertion: “Hypertext” Bolter claims, “seldom exists as pure text without any graphics” (p.47). With this statement … Continue reading
Technology and the Resurgence of Orality
Features of orality are resurfacing with modern technology. Writing has been the overwhelming technology for recording information for centuries. At its inception, writing was criticized for how it would affect our mind. (Postman, 1992) It removed discourse, much of the … Continue reading →