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Teaching with Digital Text
R. C. Alvarado
Academic Technology Lunch 'n' Learn Series
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Introduction
Weclome
Thank yous and introductions
About this series
Purpose
Content
Today's material
What do we mean by digital text?
3 Kinds of work
Digital Publishing
Instructional Technology
Digital Scholarship
- Includes Humanities computing and e-science
"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
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
Why work with digital text?
"The times, they are a' changin'
Mediations
Research → Teaching
Research → Publishing
Remarks
- 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
What happens to text when it becomes digital?
Conclusion
IDEAS
- 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
