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Remediation: Understanding New Media 18 Feb 2013 | 09:32 am
Bolter, Jay David and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Print. If the ultimate purpose of media is indeed to transfer sense experiences from one person ...
Writing Environments 18 Feb 2013 | 09:08 am
I am curious about writing environments. How does having access to multimedia on our computers influence our writing method? Do you play music in iTunes? Do you feel compelled to shut off wifi so you’...
Multimedia and Multmodal 18 Feb 2013 | 09:07 am
As you already know, I’m a advocate for multimodal learning. The wonderful thing about computers is that they are not tied to any specific medium. They are spaces for us to read and write, as well as ...
Gaming the Classroom 18 Feb 2013 | 09:06 am
This is something that I did not really consider when constructing my list, but will certainly show up in my dissertation: I would like to explore how games and game theory could influence course desi...
Digital Literacy: Educators as Engineers? 18 Feb 2013 | 09:06 am
I’m interested in the idea of “digital literacy,” but from the standpoint of educators. I’d like to extend “literacy” from a general understanding of technology and software (use cases/knowing when to...
Remediation 18 Feb 2013 | 06:17 am
I will post more about Remediation: Understanding New Media once I upload all of my reading notes, but I wanted to get one idea out there for others to consider. In the introduction, Jay Bolter and Ri...
Writing Machines 16 Feb 2013 | 05:22 am
Clearly, the title of this post is borrowed from Katherine Hayles, but I really wanted to comment on the outdated notion of writing-dedicated devices. I would actually like to find a study that breaks...
Footnote Test Post 15 Feb 2013 | 12:12 am
This is just a test post. I wanted to try out the “commenting” tool. It’s really just an inline footnote plugin, but I think it will serve our purposes nicely. I am going to install an inline editing ...
Thesis 19 Oct 2012 | 10:39 pm
Though all horror and slasher films have their own characters and plot lines, they can essentially be boiled down to the same concepts.
thesis 19 Oct 2012 | 10:36 pm
That sex appeal is about the biggest part that goes into teen slashers because it’s thought of so often during puberty with school and media
