the remediation of print

excerpt from Bolter's Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print(40-46)
excerpt from Landow's Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globilization (preface)

This week I am assigning each of you in pairs (mostly)to summarize a section of the reading for the week. Summarize as clearly as you can what the authors are saying. You may use quotations to illustrate. The assignments are below. Collaborate via classmail with your partner and submit one summary per pair.

Beginning with Hypertext as Remediation on page 40 of the handout, Alva and Baum with summarize up through the end of the first paragraph on 42 (ending with "mean new prosperity for our society.")

Delaney and Lantow: page 42, beginning with the second paragraph and ending on page 43 (ending with "Remediation is always an attempt to redefine these key cultural values.")

Lippleman and Mayweather: page 43, beginning with the first paragraph and ending with "what captures her is the expereience of moving through the story on a trajectory partly determined by her own choices...on page 44.

McGhghy and McGrath: beginning with The Old and the New in Hypertext (44) and ending with "better than writing for print" on page 45.

Mize and Prvnic page 45 the first paragraph"Understanding hypertext as the remediation of printed forms...through the end of the excerpt on 46.

Rapp and Ritch: beginning of Landow's preface to end of paragraph "electricity, telegraph, telephone, radio, television, cable television, and so on--brought on similar mythic claims" on xii.

Slossberg and Stanley: Where above group left off to end of first paragraph on xiii ("often producing effects that fundamentally differe from hypermedia."

Kersh: Where above group left off to end of article.

Barry Wellman says, in “From Neighborhood to Network, “ that :CMC has increased the frequency and intensity of overall contact. Rather than replacing face-to-face contact, CMC adds to it, filling gaps between the fuller range of information and emotion in interpersonal encounters.” Discuss this idea in terms of your experience in our networked classroom, blogging discussions, and website building. Do you agree with Wellman? In what particular ways does CMC affect your experience of learning in our course?

"Virtual Love" Meghan Daum (267)"Cyberspace and Identity" Sherry Turkle (275)

Write a paragraph in which you summarize the key conclusions of either of the above essays. Include at least two quotations to back up your ideas.

the myspace generation

This week I would like you to discuss the article "The MySpace Generation" that is linked off the weekly assignments page in our online classroom. Explore some of the online communities that are mentioned in the article. Then, choose any aspect of the article that appeals to you and zero in on it. That is, analyze one particular aspect of the article, using quotations from the article as illustrations for your assertion, and also hypertext, if you wish. (Try not to repeat what someone who posts before you has said...build a discussion). Thanks! :-)

Last week our readings were all on the web. This week they were in our print textbook. What observations can you make about your experience of the print reading and the online reading? Did you approach the texts differently. If so, in what ways? Did the texts affect your knowledge/learning in any different ways? If so, in what ways? Comment specifically on two or three examples from our reading. Include at least one quotation to support each example.

Okay. I think I have troubleshot all the blog links in WebCT under Table of Contents. If you check a blog and the link isn't working, please let me know.

I had a question about appropriateness of content on our blogs. Remember that we are an online classroom community. If it wouldn't be appropriate to say in our onsite classroom, it wouldn't be appropriate to say here. Also, remember the principle of "radical respect" for differing points of view. The persona you are creating here is an academic persona...

just starting out

Well, I like it that our entire honors class is blogging. My whole sense of audience is different than in either a traditional classroom, or my WebCT classes. Right now, I am thinking that perhaps we will post our hypertext essays as links off our blogs. This feels like a very friendly environment.