Check out 350.org
Neil Gaiman: What kind of world do we want to live in? from TED Ideas on Vimeo.
Margaret Atwood on "Are Humans Necessary?" from The New York Times
Margaret Atwood's work with The Future Library Project
Friday, September 11, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Reading: Slow, Hyper, and Machine
Some Tips on Reading
Close Reading
Read Barack Obama's handwritten reflection on The Gettysburg Address closely and carefully.
Hyper Reading
Machine Reading
Let's take H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and read it using Spritz via Readsy and Wordle.
Read quickly through a Twitter tag.
How is reading and writing different on Twitter or text messaging?
Are there rules?
Close Reading
Read Barack Obama's handwritten reflection on The Gettysburg Address closely and carefully.
Hyper Reading
- Start.
- Skim.
- Sideread.
- Surmise.
Machine Reading
Let's take H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and read it using Spritz via Readsy and Wordle.
Read quickly through a Twitter tag.
How is reading and writing different on Twitter or text messaging?
Are there rules?
Notes:
See Hayles's article on these different modes of reading, as well as Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read.
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