- Beta Reader and Review Policy : Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology – An option to peer review, as implemented at Ada. Yet another new literacy practice. "Beta readers are writers who work with authors to provide critical and constructive feedback, including help with organization, development and progression of an argument, and mechanical recommendations before the work is submitted for peer review (or in some cases, for articles submitted for peer review that are not quite ready for the light of day)." what we have to p're – (peerreview DH review newliteracy Styleguide )
- Why write by hand? – – (DH )
- [toread] Design Futures Archaeology – – (coursedesign )
- n+1: The Intellectual Situation – ah, finally long form that doesn't take the New Yorker high road, oh so popular retro diem. " But like the guy who just won’t take no for an answer, the Atlantic will never stop asking. Guilt is a gold mine. “Marry Him!” They might as well say, “Subscribe!” The Atlantic takes one reactionary impulse and sublimates it with another, hoping it can persuade us to make the same error in reverse, substituting our freshly provoked anxiety about finding a fuckable husband with an intense desire to commit to a reliable magazine. So far, this strategy seems to be working." – (fyc )
Tag: newliteracy
- Four ways to undermine a community – four links to cases of poor practice. – (none)
- [toread] Beyond the Book — The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control – Ted Striphas. Recently released in paper. Open source – (literacy newliteracy printculture remediation )
- Humanities Scholars Embrace Digital Technology – NYTimes.com – One for the local lib ed folks. We don't do numbers, right? – (libed libarts2.0 humanities visualization history newliteracy )
- SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco: ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t want to die" – Semiotician on lists. – (semiotics lists )
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error – (none)
- Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions | The New Everyday – In this cluster of The New Everyday we examine new everyday inscriptions, both the scholarly and the utterly mundane – from the grocery list to the collaboratively organized and annotated archive. The nine essays in this cluster focus on notes both physical and virtual, found and made, formal and informal, collaboratively and individually created, means-to-ends and ends-in-themselves. – (notebooks notetaking notes newliteracy new_epistemology )
- Beautiful Photos, if Barely Photography – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com – Optimistic photo- and voice essay on how to see. – (newmedia newliteracy flickr blogging socialpractices semiotics photography )
- Rare Sharing of Data Led To Results In Alzheimer’s Research – – (open_source copyright the_commons )
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traveling without a laptop
I’m considering traveling to the UK for a month without a laptop – just (ha!) an iPad and an iPhone with data roaming off. The rationale is weight and accumulation – and fear of fanaticism.
Both my wife and I traveling with MacBooks and iPhones makes a kind of embarrassing middle-class sense. Compatibility. Shared chargers. Facetime. It does come close to twinning – those matching floral shirts some old farts wear to signify “We’re on vacation.” We don’t do that.
And we can explain our over-devicing professionally. This isn’t a holiday, not really. We’re both working on projects that require technology, V on Lakes to Lakes, and me on sabbatical stuff. While traveling, I need to do some interviews, draft a chapter of a book, monitor a wiki, post to my blog and to Twitter (Yeah, I wrote tweeting into the sabbatical. I teach with social media – gotta practice my chops), keep up with some blogs, check mail – and in October, I’m skyping in to present at a conference in Fargo. Carrying computers is what we do now. No apologies there.
But a laptop, smartphone, and tablet seems like overkill. Bravura. Fanaticism. Indecision. Weight. So, if I leave my MacBook at home, we travel lighter in a lot of ways.
Question is, can I get the work done on an iPad, using my wife’s laptop only when absolutely necessary?
I’ve been trying it for a day now. I started Friday morning. I’ve been able to get everything done that I needed to – which was not a lot, I admit. I did have to move a set of PDFs from my desktop to Dropbox so I could read and annotate them. And I’ve been struggling with getting this post to show up on my blog: something’s up with BlogPress. But other than that, it’s been good.
Some added benefits:
- All the files I’m working on are in one place. I don’t have to think about moving a PDF that I annotated on the iPad to the desktop, or muck around with emailing myself a draft of a proposal I started in Pages. Less is more.
- I’m in a position to Twitter more – ok, that’s a mixed blessing.
Some matters to work through:
- How to handle a synch with using V’s laptop during the month for system updates or crashes.
- How to get past the lack of smooth multitasking. Stop – switch app – copy – switch app – paste is driving me nuts.
- How to streamline blogging. BlogPress had a glitch in uploading to WP, the WP app is awkward to use, and blogging through Safari is back to hand coding. [update: BlogPress uploaded fine. I had set the incorrect date on the post and it was lost in June.
Most of the changes are changes in workflow rather than technical issues. Those are the issues I want to uncover.
What I’ve found so far:
- I need to move all the files I might need to Dropbox, with copies just in case on a flash drive that I can get to via V’s laptop if necessary. That might require an update to Dropbox. But now that more apps (eg iAnnotate) support Dropbox, cloud access with the iPad is becoming feasible – with the exception that
- Dropbox will save an annotated file only back to the account from which it was downloaded.
- I need to bring a Bluetooth keyboard. I’m typing this longish post on the iPad’s keyboard, which suits me just fine, but it does get wearing after a while. No penalty for a keyboard.
And just in case this post and iPadding around looks like self-indulgence: The material grounds and the physical and social situations of reading and writing – which is what I do when I’m not teaching reading and writing – are significant matters. They afford and constrain the resources readers and writers use to construct meaning. That is, finding that it’s not possible (yet) to copy and paste a passage from an iBook into a draft limits what I can do – and it means that I have to figure out how to get around the constraint either technologically or rhetorically. So do students. As literacy is an interaction between writer and the technologies of consumption and production (pencil, paper, book, iPad, keyboard, ebook) (see Kress), this post is a consideration of a situation of literacy.
If I decide to take on a month of travel and work without a laptop – a device that I’ve become pretty adept at – then the whole affair will be an experiment in digital literacy.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Afterthought: Check 18th and 19th century novels for incidents of traveling and writing: tools (portable letter desks), where writing was done. Richardson, Sterne, Defoe, Fielding, Smollett, Thackeray, Austin.
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bookmarks for June 11th, 2010
- Developing a Personal Open Courseware Strategy – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Brief column on making that MIT move to open sourcing content. Plan. Use your own server. Use your own CMS (wiki). Promote to admin. – (Opensource publishing2.0 academicblogging academic )
- Critical Literacy Course – PLE/Critical Literacies open course from Plearn CA. Start here to see how the model works. – (de ple openeducation opencourse newliteracy )
- Critical Literacy Course – PLE/Critical Literacies open course from Plearn CA. Start here to see how the model works. – (de ple openeducation opencourse newliteracy )
- Patterns of Change | Critical Literacies Online Course Blog – Excellent overview article on change, especially for sense of modeling and IA and design: linear, slope, driver, attractor, dialectic. Doesn't cover change in organic networks. – (critical_thinking design information_design visualization networks networking )
- Today’s Guardian (Phil Gyford’s website) – Although the finished site looks nothing like a newspaper I think it has more in common with newspapers’ best features than most news websites do. The sense of browsing quickly through stories and reading the ones that catch your eye, feels similar. – (weddesign wcw design )
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bookmarks for April 25th, 2010
- Internet Prof Scam TechCrunch – TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam. – (Blog Blogging Scam En3177 Journalism )
- Internet Prof Scam TechCrunch – TechCrunch enacting blogging position for addressing scam. – (Blog Blogging Scam En3177 Journalism )
- Who follows AP anyway? TechCrunch – – (Journalism Styleguide AP Newliteracy Linguistic_change )
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bookmarks for July 19th, 2009
- The Ed Techie: Social media learning principles – Martin Weller on six principles to keep in mind while designing networked instruction.
1. <embed> is the universal acid of the web – we should build around it.
2. Simple with reach trumps complex with small audience.
3. Sharing is a motivation to participation – so make it easy and rewarding to do.
4. Start simple and let others build on top
5. Providing limitations frames input (Cf twitter, 12seconds, etc)
6. Complexity resides in the network not the application – (newmedia newliteracy socialmedia design educationaldesign teaching coursedesign ) - MediaShift . How Journalists Are Using Twitter in Australia | PBS – Excellent overview of uses by and responses to twitter in pro journalism. From ABC Australia. – (newmedia journalism citizenjournalism socialmedia Twitter )