Walter Logeman: Journal
American Experience in Vietnam: Home Page An ACS Online Interdisciplinary Course
This is a good example of a web page + webboard online course. Here is another one, both use webboard for discussion. Associated Colleges of the South | Sunoikisis I quite like it!
Berge Collins Associates are consultants in online and web-based teaching and learning at a distance.
EDUCAUSE Publications
A list of books that suddenly seem important!
I did buy that paper in the link below. Looks interesting enough, but
BUT
It is in a pdf file which is hard to read online IMO. I am used to the commands and formatting of HTML on the web, I have control over the presentation. All that is lost with prf. Of course they see this as a strength, that is the whole point. It is WYSIWYG locked in. Quite the opposite of say XML or whatever is being developed so that we can “write once view everywhere”. I can get uprotected pdfs onto my palm or convert them to HTML, but not this one – protected so that i cant even quote a paragraph with cut and paste – gone is the very thing that the web can do so well – allow me to do, cut and paste and so on – all disabled at great trouble and expense. I can see the point – payment for content – but it defies the marvels of sharing info for free. Open content will win out I think, has to be the way to go!
How then do we reward those who create? I’d never want anything i wrote locked up like this. Maybe a one off payment, but then I’d allow anyone to share it. Problems i know. Stephen King uses an honour system – maybe that will only work if you are that famous.
Rewarding the famous has always been out of proportion to rewarding the norm and day to day creator. The unpopular visible hand of the non-market might need to be called in.
Since the late 1980’s, we’ve been hearing about the coming “convergence” of existing media with emerging media. From Hypercard hype, to George Gilder’s groundbreaking treatise on new media, Life Beyond Television, to the present day hype fest surrounding convergence, broadband, interactive, and other flavor of the month terms, there has been a hope and promise of media one day “bridging the proscenium” of the broadcast model and delivering true narrowcast content. Until very recently, this promise has fallen flat on its face when it comes to actual delivery.
The landscape is littered with the corpses of abandoned interactive T.V., integrated “tele-puter”, and on demand media projects.
Is it any wonder that interactive media professionals, investors, and consumers alike are jaded to the near quarterly output of the mainstream medias “next biggest thing? However, media professionals should not let the media’s proclivity to drive terms and concepts into the ground cause them to lose sight of the fact that a lot of these ideas are fundamentally good, potentially profitable, and moreover, almost certainly ripe with the potential of changing the way we communicate with each other, receive and process information and entertainment, and by extrapolation, view and relate to the world around us.
Looks interesting… also interesting is Mightywords where one can publich papers like this.
MA Dissertation – Walter Ong and the WWW
The World Wide Web
– an instance of Walter Ong’s Secondary Orality?
Myron C. Tuman
And another.
More reviews from Jean A. Jacobson.
George P. Landow
Landow’s advice on making the leap into hypertext includes a chapter on “Reconfiguring the Text” in which he discusses the fragmentation of text into small units. (52) One of these small units is an item on a list. Do readers have assumptions about the order of these small units?
Dispersed Text
“Hypertext linking, reader control, and variation not only militate against the modes of argumentation to which we have become accustomed but have other, far more general effects,…the text appears to fragment, to atomize, into constituent elements (into lexias or blocks of text), and these reading units take on a life of their own as they become more self-contained, because they become less dependent on what comes before or after in a linear succession.” (52)
Argumentation, Organization, and Rhetoric
“…the movement from manuscript to print and then to hypertext appears one of increasing fragmentation. As long as a thematic or other culturally coherent means of ordering is available to the reader, the fragmentation of the hypertext document does not imply the kind of entropy that such fragmentation would have in the world of print. Capacities such as full-text searching, aautomatic linking, agents, and conceptual filtering potentially have the power to retain the benefits of hypertextuality while insulating the reader from the ill effects of abandoning linearity.” (57)