McLuhan and the Gutenberg Galaxy
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The Hidden Center of the "Gutenberg Galaxy" - 0 views
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What if the social changes that result from these technologies are intended , rather than unintended
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Marshall McLuhan wrote a good deal about the "Gutenberg Galaxy" - the 'constellation' of changes wrought on European society after the German of that name figured out how to turn a winepress into a holder for movable type - in other words, a printing press - in the 15th century.
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Gutenberg's press also made possible the Protestant Reformation - because, as Martin Luther came to realize, the wide translation and printing of the Bible meant "every man be a priest."
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could have occurred without the widespread literacy and education that the printing press made possible
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what is now happening to our society in our second "Gutenberg revolution" - namely, the rise of electronic media
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technology of writing was ascribed to some mythic "culture-bringer" - Ogham, Thoth, Quetzelcoatl, etc
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The written word makes possible the autonomous survival of knowledge - with an oral tradition, it disappears when the oralists have all been killed
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earlier technological revolution - one that occurred perhaps five millenia ago - the birth of writing
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Was the printing press purely serendipitous? It does seem to have arrived at the right place at the right time.
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"Gutenberg revolution" as quite a Gnostic coup - destroying the literacy monopoly of both the Catholic Church and the feudal state
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any people are openly saying it: print is dead, the era of the printed word and the book is fading, and thus a new kind of literacy - "teleliteracy," ("the grammatology of video,") the reading of the moving image and multimedia barrage before us - is being propagated
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death of civilization itself, since in their eyes we seem to be leaving the printed text behind and returning to the moving image or fetish
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would not think for you, but would help you think better and function as a "Knowledge (gnosis? ) Machine."
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hypertext meant that the world's knowledge could be seamlessly woven together, much like the integrated unified system of knowledge imagined by the mystic Ramon Lull.
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could be used to facilitate "Community memory" and community activism. It meant access to information
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WordSift - About - 0 views
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WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners.
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WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
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a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts
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Perspectives on Tag Clouds for supporting reflection in Self-organised Learning - 1 views
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paper on tagging, clouds, reflective learning Abstract: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable attention meta-data on a person's interests because the participants actively relate resources to concepts by using tags. This paper analyses three designs for tag-clouds that are integrated in the ReScope framework for reflection support. ReScope provides a widget for visualising personal tag-clouds of the tags that were used with social bookmarking services. The presented designs focus on processing and representing attention meta-data on the levels of recency, of collaboration, and of social connectedness from the perspective of situated learning. The present paper analyses how the designs are related to the underlying presumptions for supporting reflection using the different representations of attention meta-data.
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How I Use Mindmapping to Write - 0 views
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Mind maps are a great tool for getting your jumbly thoughts into a framework. From there, you can work backwards and forwards on ideas without the “weight” of lots of words to slow down your thinking. Then, by the way, you can use the words you’ve put down as the titles of slides, or as the headers to paragraphs or as the notes on your note cards for your speech.
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Blog U.: Online Education and Blogging - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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For conference presentations or article submissions there is no substitute for invested time in reflection, writing, and re-writing. For blogging - well it goes on the page as it goes through the brain.The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be "present" in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and blog posts around the curriculum and the student's work
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Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) - 0 views
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These are services that output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible
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Digital Office Hours - 0 views
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Instant messaging (IM) services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger make it possible for you to chat in real-time with friends, colleagues, and students.
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But do you really want to have all of these different tools open at once? Probably not. In order to cut down on applications or screens that you have open on your desktop, you can use an IM aggregrator.
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Digsby allows you not only to manage all of your IM streams, but also works as an email manager for web-based mail and as an interface for social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook
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Google Talk chatback badges. The badge is a short snippet of HTML that I can plug into any of my course-related websites, and the result is that anyone who visits the website can click on the chatbox to start a conversation with me–(1) whether they have a Google Talk account or not or (2) whether or not they know my IM account name.
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Tending Your Digital Gardens: In-Semester Maintenance - 2 views
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find thing
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find thing
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki–or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways–then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things
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If you spend any amount of time using a wiki-or, for example, services such as Flickr or delicious, where you can tag and organize your material in a variety of different ways-then sooner or later entropy will tend to set in. It can be hard to find things....Wiki folk have a metaphor that's handy to think about: wiki gardening. You cut a little here, move a little there
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when tagging this page, the highlighting tool did not appear to be working but was, which resulting in the same note being repeated over and over ~ something to watch for when tagging.
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Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web - 0 views
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Tracking topics on the Web can be a painful process, due to the amount of noise and difficulty of filtering it. So to help you out, we've selected and categorized the leading topic-tracking tools. This is based on the discussion that arose from our earlier post about topic feeds, which are RSS feeds for keywords or phrases.
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Does the Internet Promote New Forms of Communication? | HASTAC - 0 views
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It is often remarked that email causes many problems because people often send emails as if it were oral communication (with a loose form of control) and receive them as if they are written communication (as if they are carefully crafted).
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The speech act that is Internet communication is remarkably complex and comes with a variety of situational and cultural rules.
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(Do we write in a different way with a pen than with a keyboard? In 140 characters? In a term paper versus a blog?
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the online magazine of our lives: share your stories - 3 views
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Marginal Revolution: *You are Not a Gadget* - 0 views
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Of all the books with messages in this direction, it is the one I would describe as insightful.
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I disgree too. I was there for the good old digital days, and I don't miss them a bit. Web 2.0 is far more inclusive than anything that has come before.
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I disgree too. I was there for the good old digital days, and I don't miss them a bit. Web 2.0 is far more inclusive than anything that has come before. The unwashed masses are welcome, I say.
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having to manage one's reputation via a website seems very preferable to having to do so via fist fight, church and family proxies.
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First Steps Toward Becoming a 21st Century Educator | always learning - 2 views
Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker - 2 views
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Main Page - Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching and Technology - 0 views
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"Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology" ~ SECTIONS on Learning and Cognitive Theories, Learner-Centered Theories, Inquiry Strategies: Tasks, Inquiry Strategies: Changing Learners' Minds, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Changing or Encouraging Human Behaviors, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Technology Tools, Socially Oriented Theories, Direct Instruction Strategies
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Wiki book licensed under Creative Commons: "Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology." Sections on learning and teaching theory,teaching strategies, tools,
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