- The Digital World Demands a New Mode of Reading – Academic Workplace 2012 – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Sweet bit of short-fluf to start a discussion in FYC or among the lit majors who enjoy their paper Harry Potter and side-step 19th century syntax. – (reading fyc )
- The Myth of the Tech-Savvy Student – The Digital Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Two uses: a) to counter the tech eddies claim that we need to move faster, and b) to signal the need for more literacy focus in FYC et al. The myth was cooked up by admins and eddies mistaking marketing surveys for educational surveys. – (wcw fyc marketeering marketing )
Tag Archives: reading
bookmarks for May 21st, 2012
- Layering Personal Learning Environments – – (ple )
- [toread] Wikipedia in the Classroom | NiCHE – Network in Canadian History & Environment – – (wikipedia education fyw techwriting )
- Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer – review | Books | The Guardian – Guardian provides a solid ov if the context and origin of the work – (DigitalHumanities DH literature reading artifact )
bookmarks for May 8th, 2012 through May 9th, 2012
- Multitasking May Hurt Your Performance, But It Makes You Feel Better – it makes class time bearable. "The findings showed that multitasking often gave the students an emotional boost, even when it hurt their cognitive functions, such as studying." – (fyc multitasking )
- Garfield – How Students Learn Statistics – – (statistics a&e fyc )
- Open and shut cases. Bracewell’s ‘The Space Between’: the essence of a book as artwork – – (digitalhumanities book )
- Getting the News — danah boyd | News.me – how danah gathers her news – (danahboyd media newjournalism socialpractices curating reading DigitalHumanities )
bookmarks for April 8th, 2012 through April 9th, 2012
- How We Will Read: Clay Shirky – Interview with Shirky on social reading, which point to the how people use what they read. A few side remarks on publishing:"Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done." – (DigitalHumanities reading publishing publishing2.0 digitalpublishing )
- [toread] Galatea Resurrects #12 (A Poetry Engagement): TAN LIN INTERVIEWED – – (DigitalHumanities )
bookmarks for April 7th, 2012 through April 8th, 2012
- [toread] Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality – – (none)
- TidBITS Opinion: Notes, Quotes, and iBooks – ebooks as crippleware – (ebooks reading )
bookmarks for January 28th, 2011 through February 3rd, 2011
- Why The Daily Is So Yesterday – from tidBITS, good commentary on the yesterDaily. "The Daily has been compared to USA Today, which made a splash when it debuted in 1982 with its challenges to the traditional newspaper model." but it's lamer than USA Today because we now read from multiple sources. – (journalism thedeathly murdoch DOA )
- Less Text, Please: Contemporary Reading Behaviors and Short Formats | I’d Rather Be Writing – Mid-length consideration from a tech writer on short form text reading. Reviews some of the more recent arguments, and tries to set a lower limit on brevity. with "The same people who clipped back my copious callouts into a few marketing bubbles would have also pruned this post from 2,000 words to 200. Would that make the text more valuable? Just as there’s a balance between simplicity and obscurity, there’s a balance between length and learning. More people might read a short text, but a longer text yields more learning. Is there no pleasure in learning anymore?" Tends to skip over the Clive Thompson notion that he mentions: "The torrent of short-form thinking is actually a catalyst for more long-form meditation." – (techwriting reading shortform brevity )
bookmarks for January 21st, 2011 through January 22nd, 2011
- if:book: what i’ve learned since posting a proposal for a taxonomy of social reading – Author considers revision of first draft of a taxonomy. An illustration of how scholars work socially. – (reading writing socialreading drafting ple )
- 6 ways journalists can use Quora as tool to report, share ideas – – (quora journalism howto )
bookmarks for January 16th, 2011 through January 17th, 2011
- Fortune favors the bold and the italicized – A little upset here on the visual side: designing texts for difficult reading: "disfluency – the subjective experience of difficulty associated with cognitive operations – leads to deeper processing … Study 1 found that information in hard-to-read fonts was better remembered than easier to read information in a controlled laboratory setting. Study 2 extended this finding to high school classrooms. The results suggest that superficial changes to learning materials could yield significant improvements in educational outcomes." – (reading vizualization visualdesign design )
- Fitzpatrick – The Pleasure of the Blog: The Early Novel, the Serial, and the Narrative Archive – Nifty thesis:" "All blogs, for Himmer, are in some sense literary, because of the nature of their readers’ interactions with them. … Such a claim begins to suggest that the reasons we read blogs may be slightly different than we have often imagined; through this understanding, blogs offer not simply a voyeuristic peek into someone else’s life — though, obviously, that numbers among their pleasures, too — but they also offer a form of writing that engages the reader by requiring her not simply to consume the content presented but also, in some sense, to produce that content, to complete what is present through a knowledge of what is past, an exploration of the ways that that present is situated, and a commitment to return in the future." – (blogging identity genre narrative reading )
- [toread] Genre Under Construction: The Diary on the Internet — Language@Internet – Laurie McNeill – (diary en3177 weblogs journal private_and_pubic )
bookmarks for December 1st, 2010 through December 2nd, 2010
- Theft! A History of Music —Part 3: If I could turn forward time… | opensource.com – – (music mashup copyright )
- Theft! A History of Music—Part 2: Copyright jams | opensource.com – – (music mashup copyright )
- Theft! A History of Music—Part 1: Plato and all that jazz | opensource.com – – (music copyright mashup )
- Reading in the Digital Age, or, Reading How We’ve Always Read | Booksquare – – (reading social_practices )
bookmarks for September 8th, 2010 through September 14th, 2010
- edtechpost – PLE Diagrams – Mother of all PLE diagrams compilation – (#plenk2010 ple visualization )
- if:book: the truth is in the back and forth – A complete history of the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War (the second one) in XII volumes, printed. We *so* need a semiotics of writing. "Four years later, we don't yet have the tools that would let people read Wikipedia articles in "a new way" but hopefully Bridle's very impressive experiment with this one article will spur efforts to develop new tools for reading online works which are constantly being changed and edited." – (wikipedia collaborativewriting history socialpractices reading )