Interesting Readings

Interesting Readings

Walsh, Jason. “Information Wants to be Liquid.” Wired News 25 Jan. 2005. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66382,00.html (22 July 2006).

"Email is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder--a parent, teacher, or a boss..." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13921601/


Liu, Ziming. "Reading Behavior in the Digital Environment: Changes in
Reading Behavior Over the Past Ten Years" /Journal of Documentation/
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jd/jd.jsp
61(6)(2005): 700-712. - Interesting study on the changes in reading
behavior due to increased use of digital information. People highlight
less but search more; people read linearly less but show intense
concentration once sections are found that interest them. While
considerably more research is needed, this article is a good
introduction to the field. [plagiarised review from Bill Wolff, posted to techrhet@interversity.org (20 Dec. 2005)].


WIKIVERSITY
The organization that maintains the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
(http://www.wikipedia.org/ ) proposes the creation of Wikiversity, an
"electronic institution of learning that will be used to test the
limits of the wiki model both for developing electronic learning
resources as well as for teaching and for conducting research and
publishing results." Still in the initial startup phase, Wikiversity
could, at the least, be an open repository for educational materials.
Some Wiki board members also think it could serve as a host to online
courses, which, in turn, could lead to degree-granting programs. For
more information about Wikiversity, go to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity [original post by Carolyn Kotlas, posted to techrhet@interversity.org by mbulger (6 Jan. 2006)].

"Introducing the Hipster PDA." http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda/ (19 Feb. 2007).

Medero, Shawn. "Paper Prototyping." A List Apart. 23 Jan. 2007.
http://alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping (19 Feb. 2007). "As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, pens, scissors, and your imagination."

Carnevale, Dan. “Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses." Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Aug. 2004. http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i49/49a02701.htm (3 Mar. 2007).

See if you can navigate this site. All you will ever want to know about "the click." http://www.dontclick.it. [Posted by Kami Cox 5 March 2007].

Michael Wresch, "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE . I've been using this in some of my classes, and I think it's very good at bringing in some of the issues that we are facing in the wake of changes in the technologies of communication. Of course, it might seem more useful to me because I'm familiar with the history (and some of the code and things!) it uses to demonstrate these changes. I'm curious as to how it might work for others. [4 Sep. 2008].