Readings, English Studies and Technology

	Technology and English Studies Main English and Technology Page Links to Software and Software Tutorials Conversation Pieces "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" (Ken Robinson, TED Video) "Medieval Helpdesk" "Education 2.0" "Writer's House" (from Rutgers U) "The Future is Now" (R. Miller, Rutgers) "A Bicycle for Our Minds" by Steve Jobs "Did You Know?" ("Shift Happens") by Fisch and McLeod "Information R/evolution" by Mike Wesch "The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Mike Wesch "A Vision of Students Today" by M. Wesch+Students "Multimodal Composition..." by Jason Palmeri Beloit College Mindset Lists NCTE/INTASC Teaching Principles Tutorial Videos from CommonCraft and Others "Blogs in Plain English" by CommonCraft "RSS in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Introduction to RSS" by Howard Rheingold "Social Bookmarking in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Social Networking in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Wikis in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Google Docs in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Wetpaint Wikis in Plain English" by CommonCraft "Zombies in Plain English" by CommonCraft Emergence, Innovation, Kairos, 21st Century Literacies Key Readings 1 "21st Century Literacies" (pdf from NCTE) "Toward a Definition of 21st Century Literacies" (NCTE) "From Pencils to Pixels" (Handout) Key Readings 2 "Sliced Bread and..." (Seth Godin, TED) "There is No Lord of the Fireflies" (Radio Lab, NYPR) "The 'Shadow Cities'..." (Robert Neuwirth, TED) "Why Squatter Cities..." (Stewart Brand, TED) "How I Built My...Windmill" (William Kamkwamba, TED) "Our Cell Phones, Ourselves" (Jan Chipchase, TED) Key Reading 3 "Hypertext..." (Jay David Bolter) (PDF) Further Emergence and Innovation Links "A History of the Computer: Pre-History" (PBS) The Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club On Thoreau's Pencils "Thousands of Rubber Ducks" (Friendly Floatees) Friendly Floatees Timeline "Pakistan's Decorated Vehicles" (Peter Grant) "Rocket Radio" by William F. Gibson "Street Use" (Blog by Kevin Kelly) "Future Perfect" (Blog by Jan Chipchase) WSJ Video on William Kamkwamba Googlebombing "Ministry of Reshelving" (Jane McGonigal) "Shared Phone Use" (Jan Chipchase, Essay) "Informal Repair Cultures" (Jan Chipchase, Essay) "Literacy, Communication, Design" (J. Chipchase, Video) One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Key Readings "One Laptop Per Child" (Review, NYT/David Pogue) "'One Laptop'...Faces Challenges" (NPR) "OLPC Doesn't Change the World" (John C. Dvorak) "Inside OLPC: Episode Two" (YouTube) "What If Every Child Had a Laptop?" (60 Minutes) Further OLPC Links Inside OLPC Videos ("simplecoat" @ YouTube) OLPC YouTube Chanel (OLPC) "One Laptop Per Child" (60 Minutes) "One Laptop" Case Study, Peru (OLPC Wiki) "...One Laptop Per Child" (Nicholas Negroponte, Video) "Sizing Up a $100 Laptop" (NPR/David Pogue) "The $100 Laptop Heads for Uganda" (NPR) "One Laptop Per Child" (Wikipedia) "Outdoctrination" (Sugata Mitra, Lift 07, Video) On Slideware Key Readings "Creating Powerful Presentations" (Nancy Duarte) "Really Bad PowerPoint" (Seth Godin) "Educators Question PowerPoint Usage" (NPR, Audio) "Life after Death by PowerPoint" (Don McMillan, Video) "PowerPoint is Evil" (Edward Tufte) "Unplug That Projector!" (Jimmy Guterman) "Is It Finally Time to Ditch PowerPoint?" (Garr Reynolds) "What is Good PowerPoint Design?" (Garr Reynolds) "Top Ten Slide Tips" (Garr Reynolds) "Learning from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" (G. Reynolds) "Ten Questions for Edward Tufte" (ID Magazine) Powerpoint and the Columbia Disaster "The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide" (NYT) "PowerPoint: Killer App?" (WaPo) Further Slideware Links "Authors@Google: Garr Reynolds" "How Cognitive Science Can Improve Your Ppt" (io9) "PPt Tips That Are Clear and to the Point" (G. Reynolds) Duarte Design Homepage Slide:ology Homepage Speaking.Alltop.com "The Making of the Gettysburg PPt" (Peter Norvig) "PPt Does Rocket Science" (Edward Tufte) "Offering Beautiful Evidence" (Tufte. Go to linked audio.) On Slides and Slideware (F. Johnson) "The 10 20 30 Rule" (Guy Kawasaki) "The Art of the Start" (Guy Kawasaki) Slideware Humor "Chicken Chicken Chicken" (Doug Zongkers, Video) "The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation" (P. Norvig) Obama and Kennedy Bad (Fake) PowerPoints Power(Point) Ballad Exemplary Presentations (Mostly from TED) "Sliced Bread and..." (Seth Godin) "Swim with Giant Sunfish..." (Tierney Thys) "Fly Me to the Moons of Saturn" (Carolyn Porco) "...Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law" (L. Lessig) "A Guided Tour of the Ghost Map" (Steven Johnson) "Secrets of Movement" (Robert Full) "Why Can't We Grow New Energy?" (Juan Enriquez) "...[T]he New Business Conversation" (R. Scoble) "Debunking Third-World Myths..." (Hans Rosling) "Our Priorities for Saving the World" (Bjorn Lomborg) Steve Jobs's Keynotes (@Apple Events) "The Art of the Start" (Guy Kawasaki) On Images Key Readings On Meaningful Sequences (Johnson) (In class.) "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire" (Errol Morris) New Orleans Refrigerators (NYT) "Graphic Design Fundamentals" (Garr Reynolds) "Noise and . . . the Nonessential" (Garr Reynolds) Kodak Photography Tips Guide to Photo Composition Finding Images EveryStockPhoto CreativeCommons.org Flickr.com (with "CC" search options) Ball State Library Google Image Search Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons iStockPhoto.com (not free) Further Image and Design Links Microsoft iPod (YouTube) Creative Writing Online NewPages Guide: Online Literary Magazines The Diagram SmokeLong Quarterly Born Magazine Copyright / Creative Commons Key Readings "Share" by Habib Yazdi (More here.) "Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue" by Edward W. Felton (First hour.) "...Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law" (L. Lessig) "The Cost of Copyright Confusion..." (AUCSM) Cory Doctorow @ Lift 06 (Video) "Thoughts on Music" (Steve Jobs, Apple) "David Byrne's Survival Strategies..." (David Byrne) CreativeCommons.org (Investigate it.) "CC Mayer & Bettle" (Creative Commons Vid) "Building on the Past" (Creative Commons Vid) "Mix Tape" (Creative Commons Vid) Google Book Search Google Book Search "Google Book Search" (Wikipedia) "Google's Moon Shot" (Toobin, on Book Search) Remixers, Remixes, Mashups "Remixing Shakespeare" (Folger Shakespeare Library) "When Theft Serves Art" (L. Lessig) "The Grey Album" (Danger Mouse, Wikipedia) Negativland "This Land!" (JibJab) EBN Videos (Emergency Broadcast Network) "Behavior Modification/We Will Rock You" Zoo TV Tour (U2/YouTube) The Beastles (and "Beastles" @ Wikipedia) Fair Use and Public Domain "A Fair(y) Use Tale" (Eric Faden) "Fair Use" (US Copyright Office) Further Readings on Copyright "Copyright and Fair Use in Teaching" (AUCSM) Electronic Frontier Foundation "Copyright Confusion Obstructs Media Literacy" (EFF) "Copyright Law Should..." (Cory Doctorow) "Content's King" (Cable World / Jamie Kellner) "Freedom to Tinker" (Group Blog inc. Ed Felton) Lessig (Larry Lessig's Site) "Why Wilco is the Future of Music" (L. Lessig) "In Defense of Piracy" (L. Lessig) Craphound (Cory Doctorow's Blog) BoingBoing (Cory Doctorow's Group Blog) Fritz-Chip / Hollings Bill (Wikipedia) "John Phillip Sousa" (Wikipedia) "Lysenkoism" (Wikipedia) Sony DRM Scandal (1: Wikipedia) (2: BoingBoing) "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" (Wikipedia) DMCA Text (WikiSource) "Steal This Hook?" (NYt on Girl Talk) "Don't Copy That Floppy" (Yikes) Attention and Multitasking Key Readings on Attention "On Attention" (Linda Stone @ DLD 07) "Attention" (Howard Rheingold) Further Readings on Attention 2006 UCLA Study on Multitasking "The Autumn of the Multitaskers" (Walter Kirn, Atlantic) Walter Kirn on the Colbert Report 11/1/07 "Can You Walk and Chew Gum..." (Bigg Success) Linda Stone Summary (Nat Torkington) Web 2.0 / Read-Write Web / Blogging Key Readings on the Read-Write Web "Stephen Fry: Web 2.0" (Stephen Fry) "Keynote at eLive 2006 in in Edinburgh" (Richardson) List/Collection of "Web 2.0" Applications (Explore a Bit) Key Readings on Blogs Weblogs at Hunterdon High (Will Richardson, 2004) Excerpt from Milken Conference (Will Richardson, 2006) "...[T]he New Business Conversation" (Robert Scoble) "Surviving a Plague of Blogs" (FJ, PDF) Further Readings on the Read-Write Web Stephen Fry's Homepage "Web 2.0" (Paul Graham) Web 2.0 Applications Online PowerPoint Replacements "Read/Write Web with Will Richardson, pt. 2" Weblogg-ed (Will Richardson's Blog) Student Oriented "Web 2.0" Applications (Tim Berners-Lee) Further Readings on Blogging "Blogging and Education" by John C. Dailey John Dailey's Homepage Crowdsourcing and Amateur Professionals Key Readings "Open Source Architecture..." (Cameron Sinclair, Video) "Japan, Ink" (Daniel Pink, Wired) "Rise of the Amateur Professonal" (C. Leadbetter, Video) Weblogs at Hunterdon High (Will Richardson, 2004) "Stop Motion Movies" (David Pogue, NYT) Further Readings "Once Upon a School" (Dave Eggers) "1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles" (Wired) "The X-Prize Ecosystem" (Wired) "The L-Prize" "We Are the Web" (Kevin Kelly) Cluetrain Manifesto (Read the "95 Theses") "...Spaghetti Sauce" (On Specificity) (M. Gladwell) "Romanian Rhapsody" (Doctorow) "Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition" The Company-Customer Pact "...Everyone Can Hear You Complain" (NYT) CCPact Wiki Literary Works Online Eliot's "The Waste Land" as Hypertext Spoon River Anthology SpoonRiverAnthology.net Spoon River at Antelope e-Books Spoon River at Bartleby.com Key Readings on Google Books and Book Scanning Projects Google Books (Explore) "...Fruit-Baskets to Google" (Doctorow) "Collect, Share, and Discover Books" (GBs) "Changing Academic History" (Tim O'Reilly) "Explore Banned Books" (GBs) "The Complete Plays of Shakespeare" (GBs) Further Reading on Google Book Search and Book Scanning "Google's Moon Shot" (Toobin) "Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning Free" (Wired) Other Text Collections Online Project Gutenberg (Explore) Bartleby.com (Explore) Art and the Artful Online Hypertext Fiction Charmin' Cleary (Edward Falco) My Body (Shirley Jackson) Eastgate Systems (Major Hypertext Publisher) Eastgate's "Hypertext on the Web" Page Eastgate's "Hypertext Reading Room" Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 AltX Online Network Data Manipulation "The Web's Secret Stories" (Jonathan Harris) "We Feel Fine" (Jonathan Harris) (explore) "Universe" (Jonathan Harris) (explore) "The Baby Name Voyager" (Laura Wattenberg) Wikipedia Vision (explore) Flickrvision (explore) Books That Make You Dumb (optional) Nathan Yau's Flowing Data Site Collaboration and Participation Where the Hell is Matt? Post Secret Post Secret "Trailer" BookCrossing.com The Book Inscriptions Project You Are Beautiful Found Magazine Mortified Free Rice Mail Art The Flat Stanley Project Weblogs as Literary Form? Some Visual Blogs 3191 Post Secret Post Secret "Trailer" Garfield After Garfield Amanda Fales Photography Parody Blogs The Darth Side (Very geeky...) Original Blog (Goes Backward, has Comments) In Chronological Order (No Comments, though) Fake Steve Jobs "Citizen Journalism" Michael Yon Online Magazine Bits of the Political Blogosphere McCain Blogette (Meghan McCain) Instapundit.com (Libertarian Politics) Kausfiles (Center Left Politics) The Corner (Conservative/GOP Politics) Video Blogs Blogginghead.tv Rocketboom Howard Rheingold's Vlog Mashups and Other Jackson Pollack.org Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle EBN Videos (Emergency Broadcast Network) Search Alternatives Technorati (blog search) Del.icio.us (shared bookmarks) Bookfinder.com (book search) Songza (music search) Google Specialized Searches (scan/experiment) Google Advanced Search (scan/experiment) Google Search Tips, Google Cheat Sheet (scan/experiment) Digg Reddit Top 100 Alternative Search Engines (AltSearchEngines) Top 100 Alternative Search Engines (ReadWriteWeb) Googlets . . . Special Archives The Edison Papers Web Design / Interfaces David Pogue on Usabillity David Pogue on the Flip camcorder BumpTop Demo (Official Site: BumpTop) MS Surface (explore) MS TouchLight (explore) (More on Touchlight here and here) Jeff Han's Multitouch Interface (TED, 10 min.) Popular Mechanics Report Video "CNN . . . Magic Wall" Buy Your Own Touchscreen Wall Perceptive Pixel Demo Video On Digital Storytelling "Digital Storytelling" (Wikipedia) "Seven Things You Should Know About Digital Storytelling" "Digital Storytelling in...Elementary Grades" (M. Needleman) Video/Speaker Collections TED: Technology Entertainment Design The New Yorker Conference: 2008, 2007 LIFT Conference Library of Congress Webcasts Also Of Interest "Create Your Own Print Ad" (Adbusters) "Build a Better Business Card" (Robin Williams) AdBusters Pew Internet and American Life Project "Triumph of the Nerds" (PBS) (@ Google Video) "Nerds 2.0.1" (PBS) (@ Google Video) "Greening the Ghetto" (Majora Carter, Video) "An Interface of One's Own" (Virginia Heffernan, NYT) The Las Vegas Sun (Newspaper Embracing New Media) "Against the Machine" (Interview, Lee Siegel) "YourTube, j'accuse!" (On Siegel's "Against the Machine") "Facebook in Reality" (Idiots of Ants) Email Dr. Johnson
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