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talk-transform.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Sebastian Rahtze’s excellent slides on TEI/XSLT/XPATH, how to do it, syntax, what it means.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Check out “Ev’ry little bit” “Take me back to New York Town” dreamland. mockingbird and so many more!
Andrew B. Sterling and Harry von Tilzer, too

The Pen Gets a Whole Lot Mightier – New York Times
The toy is interesting, but what is also interesting is the way it integrates reading/writing/sound. The concept of silent and personal reading is, after all, fairly new. Are we seeing a return to a more oral/aural society? A different kind, though, one where memory/memorization is not key–the computer holds your memory…

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The New Facebook Frenzy – News
Basic article about pros and cons of Facebook. I didn’t realise you must use a .edu address to join.

I. Sketchy Notes on Enduring Tropes (and pet peeves?) of adoption of emerging technologies:
1. recurring trope: confusing personal practice with general use –
“no one will want to x (read text on a computer screen, listen to a podcast, listen to music on a phone, etc.) so we shouldn’t do it
[in this case “no one” = “I”]
2. (corollary of 1.?) recurring trope: culture clash
– assignment: put yourself out there on the blog!; consequence: get fired, get disciplined, get embarrassed 5 years later. It is the nature of the technology that only the things you don’t want to lose are lost. When your understanding of appropriate and open conflicts with someone else’s (and there is probably a correlation between a person’s level of tolerance and their desire to object to other’s actions) what happens?
3. people who use IT in education
“‘THEY’ don’t understand the pedagogical value of emerging technology x. They think is is no different than technology y.” (Well why the hell should they when you are using PowerPoint to demo it??)
4. “heard here first” or, Andy Warhol strikes again – notice how rapid pace of emerging technologies is paralleled by the positive frenzy to be the first to name the new. Google on podagogy.
5. online optimism and self-fulfilling prophecies: “he who says the most has the most to say”
5. and there was another one but 2 phone calls broke the train of thought and I’ve got to get back to preparing for class
II. Writing across the Disciplines/Curriculum/Community and podcasting:
for many, writing is hard, talking is easy. For understanding some things, sometimes reading is the better (faster?) vehicle, for others, audio. Will decisions related to which to use in a given educational setting be determined by the pedagogical value or by expediencey? (well duh) Will claims about which is “better” be made based on one or t’other? From scholarly books to articles to ??? (Also, books as a physical artefact are obviously not dead. But take fiction/fun-non-fiction and textbooks out of the mix? What’s the health of what’s left?) (Read any 17th century prose lately?)
Listening Across the Curriculum…

WAC and Writing Journals
From Colorado States WAC program