Literacy and ideology
Hello everyone! I have chosen this topic mainly because it resonated with my personal life experience in the first place…
Assignment 2: The Columbian Iron Press
Weighing in at 1.5 tonnes and outputting a blazing 250 copies per hour (with a skilled pressman) the Columbian Iron…
The Past, Present, and Future of Logograms
Hello Everyone! First of all, here’s the video: This was a really interesting project for me because I usually do…
For those thinking about teaching overseas
Not ETEC 540 related but this is a blog site so I thought to post this here. One of the…
Invention of the Pen
I now know WAY more about pens than anyone has any business knowing! Please find my video below: This assignment…
Typewriting vs. Handwriting for Children Learning How to Print
My video documentary is a little bit about the invention of the typewriter, a little about the phenomenology of writing…
[Announcement 4] Self assessment form 3 (Video Documentary)
Hi everyone, This is the assessment form for the video documentary. Complete it whenever you feel ready. I will start…
Channelling Bolter for a Documentary Post-mortem
Having had Bolter’s chapter 4 as an assigned reading after we had our documentaries due is either a stroke of…
The introduction of punctuation and word spacing
In the past couple weeks, I’ve told a lot of people that I’m working on a 10-minute long documentary on…
Oracle Bones
Hi everyone, Kim and I created a video on Oracle Bones, the earliest evidence of written Chinese language: The discovery…
The Origins of the Modern Paperback and its Societal Influence
Introduction and Documentation I chose to explore paperback media because out of all pre-digital media, this is the one that…
History of penny press newspapers
Here is my video documentary on the history of penny press newspapers and what they represent today: https://youtu.be/nxt4z4YDM6Q Here is…
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…
Graffiti in Antiquity
Hello everybody, I’ve created a video on graffiti in antiquity. In particular, I look at graffiti in ancient Greece and…
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…
The Invention of Photography
Here is the link to my video: https://youtu.be/6v_JgZSfv98 I chose to use Adobe Spark on the recommendation of a colleague….
Radio and Literacy
Based on past documentaries from years previous I set out to create something quite different. Using Adobe Premiere Pro I…
Slaves to time?
“Time, once passive, is now aggressive,” says Simon Garfield, author of the book Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with…
Death of the Author and Birth of the Reader as Author
Can you imagine if someone painted a building and then took credit for the entire finished product? It would be…
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…
The Telephone Changes Communication
Below is the link to my video on how the telephone has changed communication A link to my PDF Script Communication …
“Hangeul”, and its Effect on Mass Literacy and Politics
Hello everyone, I made a video on the history behind the Korean writing system, “Hangeul” and its effect on mass…
[Announcement 3] Self assessment form 2
Hi everyone! Just like last time, please fill this form with the information about your posts. I won’t provide a…
Scroll to Codex
Hello all, I created a video on the transition from the scroll to the codex. I produced it with a…
The Telephone
Here is the link to .PDF document containing; Introduction Production Choices, Style, Challenges and Successes Video Script References Etec 540…
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…
Storytelling Over Time-From Orality to Print to Computers
Storytelling is a sensory experience. This could…