web and technology

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a multitude of narratives

it's a boy!

"When you find movement in your life again, I suggest rollerskating in your underwear!"

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Disconnection Between Brain and Computer Connections

 “The Brain—is wider than the Sky—

For—put them side by side—

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“An Artificial and Most Complicated World”: Reading and Writing the Brain

“From the very start, the brain’s capacity for making new connections shows itself… as regions originally designed for other functions – particularly vision, motor, and multiple aspects of language – learn to interact with increasing speed. By the time a child is seven or eight, the beginning decoding brain illustrates both how much the young brain accomplishes and how far we have evolved… These three major distribution regions will be the foundation across all phases of reading for basic decoding, even though an increasing fluency… adds an interesting caveat to the unfolding portrait of the reading brain.” (1)

-Maryanne Wolf

 

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Even though we're finished with blogs...

 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/world/asia/13hanhan.html?pagewanted=2&ref=global-home

 

This is a really interesting article about a famous Chinese blogger, his blog, and censorship.  I think it's worth reading, and it goes with what we did during the first half of the semester.

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Storytelling through Serials - How and Why?

 

I think it would be an interesting idea for us to study serial fiction as a genre.

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intellectual property & where do we go from here - 2/25 class summary

We began with some questions that were posted online for Nicole and Jen:
Did either of them feel any worry about posting their work on the internet, where future employers could find it?
Nicole didn't feel much concern but wondered if she should, mentioning her middle-school Myspace that's still online; Jen plans to work in the digital humanities, and so feels it's great for her to have an online presence. Nicole adds that most people's names are all over the Internet in places they didn't put it on purpose (Bi-Co articles, etc.).

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A Paper about how I Hate Grading Papers

This paper unfolds as a ribbon rolling off a reel...

ribbon role

I love being a teaching assistant, but I hate grading! The monotony of comparing minute differences in framing answers to the same questions is almost unbearable.  Trying to remember the best response is an exercise in tediousness, overwhelming repetition.  It is a task I dread every week. 

The first twist of the ribbon was…

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We Are The Robots

A page from Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis

A page from Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis

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