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= What do we mean by digital text? = | = What do we mean by digital text? = | ||
== 3 Kinds of work == | == 3 Kinds of work == | ||
* Digital text is highly variable | |||
* Its forms are a function of its contexts of its use | |||
* In academia, these are three: (1) Publishing, (2) Teaching, and (3) Research: | |||
=== Digital Publishing === | === Digital Publishing === | ||
* A lot of work has been done at Dickinson in this area | |||
** James Gerencser and John Osborne's DEILA projects | |||
=== Instructional Technology === | === Instructional Technology === | ||
* ATS, in particular Todd Bryant, has spear-headed a lot of work in this area | |||
** The Dickinson Blog and Dickinson Wiki | |||
=== Digital Scholarship === | === Digital Scholarship === | ||
* Includes Humanities computing and e-science | * Includes Humanities computing and e-science | ||
* Less developed on campus | |||
* My area of interest, and what I want to focus on | |||
== "Textualities" == | == "Textualities" == | ||
Revision as of 16:18, 28 October 2007
Teaching with Digital Text
R. C. Alvarado
Academic Technology Lunch 'n' Learn Series
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Introduction
Welcome
Thank yous and introductions
About this series
Purpose
Content
Today's material
What do we mean by digital text?
3 Kinds of work
- Digital text is highly variable
- Its forms are a function of its contexts of its use
- In academia, these are three: (1) Publishing, (2) Teaching, and (3) Research:
Digital Publishing
- A lot of work has been done at Dickinson in this area
- James Gerencser and John Osborne's DEILA projects
Instructional Technology
- ATS, in particular Todd Bryant, has spear-headed a lot of work in this area
- The Dickinson Blog and Dickinson Wiki
Digital Scholarship
- Includes Humanities computing and e-science
- Less developed on campus
- My area of interest, and what I want to focus on
"Textualities"
- AKA "Discourse Genres"
- Form, Content, Practice
Mark-up
- Think of this as close-reading, text-criticism
- A methodology that merges the (old) New Criticism with the discourse analysis of the socio-linguist with the Qualitative Data Analysis of the sociologist
- EXAMPLES
- TEI
- XML in general
- Grizzard
Collaboration
- Wikis and Blogs
Linking
- An overlaying dimension to the previous technologies
- Text as Database → from Sequence to Random Access
- Has the most profound and difficult to control effects:
- Challenges the the notion of the text itself
- Narrative
- EXAMPLES
- Ovid
- Figura
Why work with digital text?
Technology breaks things
- Describe the principle
Structure, layout, content
Authorship
Boundaries
Flow
Medium
"The times, they are a' changin'
- The changes are happening now
- The macro forces are beyond are control
- Economics will drive the move to e-books
- The Googlefication of Everything
Mediations
Research and Teaching
Research and Publishing
Conclusion
- Research mediates between Teaching and the two other areas of academic work
- Technology mediates between both Research and Teaching, and Research and Publishing
- Scholars have the opportunity to shape practice and discourse genres by working the technology
- AKA hacking, bricolage
- The point is not to give you ready made examples of examples of how to teach with digital text, complete with rubrics, outcomes, and best practices
- Rather, it is to engage you in your historical role as producers not only of knowledge but of knowledge practice
