Here there be flights of texts
Last year, my dad was honestly (and astonishingly) upset when President’s Choice changed their rewards card program. A few years…
Legitimate Knowledge
I have been pondering Ong’s (1982) words, “Print encourages closure, a sense that what is found in a text has…
Writing Gifts Literacy
I remember a conversation I had with a veteran colleague when I was a new elementary public-school teacher in 1998. …
Look to the past, predict the future
In chapter 5 of his Orality and Literacy, Ong writes “Writing moves words from the sound world to a world…
The book as print remediation’s patient
I discovered in that I am perhaps a print remediation casualty. Either that or I am completely normal. In returning…
Slaves to time?
“Time, once passive, is now aggressive,” says Simon Garfield, author of the book Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with…
The printed page and literacy development through typeset
Before the invention of the printing press, the handwritten manuscript was the main form of literate work in Europe. As…
Scroll to Ebooks
I found very fascinating looking back into the early forms of writing space and the transitions that we experience during…
Are Books Becoming Extinct?
With the advent of Gutenberg’s printing press in the 15th century the place books would hold in society changed drastically….
Beginner language learning and digital writing technology
In the section on “word processing and the reinvention of writing” we were introduced to the idea that spelling tools…
The Whole Body Labors No Longer: Remediation of Thought and Writing in the Modern Classroom
As Jay Bolter notes in Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, “[e]ach culture and each period has…
Initially adopting printing tech: economics and psychological points-of-reference
Often, when we think of new technologies, we may first think of the reasons that technologies are adopted. In the…
A Shift in Relationships
A theme that I continually returned to throughout the readings for module 3 was relationships and, more specifically, the impact…
Cultural Ambitions, Changes, and Trends
The Replacement of Print As Bolter aptly states, “[a]lthough print remains indispensable, it no longer seems indispensable” (2001, p. 10). …
Steven Hawking, Bill Nye, Cognitive Dissonance and the Transformation of Texts
“Religion was an early attempt to answer the questions we all ask, why are we all here, where did we…
I am sorry Dave…
Imagine you are an astronaut and your name is Dave. You are drifting outside your space craft in a…
The scroll in 2018?
I must admit that I did not think too heavily about the matter of how the scroll has influenced, or…
The Remediation of Orality
“In manuscript and early print, reading was a social activity.” (Ong) It was difficult for me to understand how in…
The Evolution of Narrative Structure
As an avid read and writer of fiction, what I found particularly thought provoking in the readings of the third…
Word Processing and Why I Can’t Spell
[…] “[A]uto-correct and spellcheckers have turned us into a bunch of illiterate idiots” (Greenfield, 2012). In watching the video by…
Death of Books?
It is without question that with every new frontier of written medium, there will be contention and debate surrounding the…
Orality and literacy
There is a lot of critique on Ong’s ‘Literacy and Orality’ but I think understanding and, in my case, teaching…
Printed Book
Prior to the invention of the printing press books had to be copied by hand, and this was an incredibly…
Changing literary forms
In my work as an e-learning instructional designer, I spend a lot of time considering the design and layout of…
Rethinking the Origins of Rip, Mix, Burn
Video ripped from the article Think Retro: RIP Rip, Mix, Burn, 2015. The technological advancement that occurred roughly at the…
From Oral Language to Text and Back Again. The Cycle Continues!
While Bolter (2001) provides a historically accurate picture of writing within the limits of the date of publication, we have…
The Craftsmanship and Art of Print
Clement (1997) offered fascinating descriptions of the evolution and operation of several iterations of printing presses, but I struggled to…
Experiences from a Millennial
Experiences from a Millennial As a person who is commonly referred to as a millennial, I have grown up in…
The Future of Print Books
The Future of Print Books I love books. Growing up I recall spending every spare minute reading books. I was…
Books are for dinosaurs!
I say this because I guess am one, a species on the brink of extinction. I much prefer a book…
Assignment 1 Post 2
I would like to start off saying I do not wish to offend anyone with the following post but it…
The New Literacy
Reading through Danial Chandler’s Technological or Media Determinism I was intrigued by his thoughts on technological autonomy, or the belief…
Ong: Thinking about Technological Implementation
Exploring concepts of change and influence in the history of primary technological communication provides useful and surprising insights to anyone…
Technological “Revolutions”
The development of new communication and broadcast technologies heralds fundamental changes for society, however O’Donnell & Engells warn that we…