Monthly Archives: October 2013

Cinematic Impact on Literacy and Education

Posted on October 27, 2013 by maubanel

Cinematic Impact on Literacy and Education Timeline by Marc Aubanel, Jessica Dickens & Kimberly Wagner We created a Timeline for our research project which allowed us to use a multi-modal format for presenting our work. There is a combination of … Continue reading →

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Dissecting Manga—Between the Images, Texts, Stories and Popular Culture

Posted on October 27, 2013 by yuki

The visualized work for this research is on https://sites.google.com/site/etec540manga/home The rise of manga is not only a Japanese phenomenon, but an international happening. Manga is seen more as a sub-culture than a literal work. While texts are dominant in other … Continue reading →

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From Slate to Notebook (or From Rote to Note)

Posted on October 26, 2013 by laurenmacd

From Slate to Notebook (or From Rote to Note) Ashley Bayles and Lauren MacDonald Introduction Albert Einstein took a test designed by Thomas Edison and one of the questions asked him to know the speed of sound. Upon not knowing … Continue reading →

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Literacy and the Underground Railway

Posted on October 26, 2013 by cluciak

I chose to complete my Module 3 Research Project in a program called Zooburst. Zooburst is a digital storytelling tool that helps users create their own 3D pop up book on a topic of their choice. The topic for my … Continue reading →

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Christian Influences on the Transition from Scroll to Codex

Posted on October 26, 2013 by lindsayn

Bolter (2001) argues “the most important visual structure in the medieval codex was the marginal note”. I chose to present my research paper using Google Documents, in order to allow viewers the affordance of annotating the text. Feel at liberty … Continue reading →

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Friend or foe?

Posted on October 3, 2013 by cdirks

Technology. Is it friend or foe? Over twenty years ago, Neil Postman wrote his book Technolopoly in an effort to “describe when how and why technology became a particularly dangerous enemy” (Postman, 1992). Even at the time he wrote his … Continue reading →

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Scientific Mysticism

Posted on October 2, 2013 by benferrel

“The binarism of the comparison transcends the question” (Biakolo, 1999, p. 42). Has the discussion that pits orality and literacy as two distinct orders of communication transcended the question of communication in a more fundamental form?  Although Biakolo focuses primarily … Continue reading →

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Adapting to External Sources of Information

Posted on October 1, 2013 by mrsingh

“Those who use writing will become forgetful, relying on an external resource for what they lack in internal resources.  Writing weakens the mind.” (Ong 1982, 79) As Ong describes in Chapter 3 in “Orality and Literacy”(1982), the advent of writing … Continue reading →

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