http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/ The changing spaces of reading and writing. en-us 2008-07-06T15:46:36-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/047033.html Here's an interesting Firefox add-on I just found. http://www.hyperwords.net/index.html What's interesting is that there's a strong connection with Doug Engelbart's work!... Resources etec540 2008-07-06T15:46:36-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/046849.html The New York Times ran an interesting articleon June 17th, about Paul Otlet, a Belgian library who some claim may have invented one of the first models of a hypertextual system as well as theorized a networked system that bears... jeffmiller 2008-06-18T21:09:40-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/046304.html I use this video with Teachers and Teacher Librarians when I am trying to stress the importance of information literacies and our need to understand them. Hope no one has posted it earlier. Michael Wesch is Assistant Professor of Cultural... etec540 2008-05-08T17:02:12-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/046297.html Here is a great little resource that seems to be of great interest in my aggregator these days. ANIMOTO is a web based digital media generator that is quick and easy to use with impressive results. Deb... MULTIMEDIA etec540 2008-05-08T14:20:29-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/046288.html I thought this was kind of interesting and fun to play with. Sitepal suggests that the speech capability of the avatar keeps customers more engaged and at your site longer. I've been using recordings of sample problems posted onto a... etec540 2008-05-07T20:16:35-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/046248.html Ever since I was little I have been fascinated by the shapes and look of the letters of the alphabet. I used to doodle the letters in all different sizes, "fonts" and colours whenever I got a chance. I even... Resources etec540 2008-05-05T22:24:35-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/043452.html While ETEC 540 is not a course about typography per se, it has indirectly renewed my interest in the art of arranging type. I’ve just started reading Ellen Lupton’s book Thinking With Type. On literally the first page she introduces... David Wood 2007-11-03T13:51:14-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/042873.html As students of ETEC*540, we have been asked to make use of two online text technologies - the Wiki and Social Bookmarking. The folks at Common Craft have produced two light and fun videos explaining these two technologies in a... Resources David Wood 2007-10-11T10:46:38-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/042762.html I was recently reminded of the online screencast, Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Movie by Jon Udell. The subject of which is Udell’s exploration of the dynamics behind collaborative online authorship. I've always intended to go view the video but never... Resources David Wood 2007-10-08T14:11:45-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/042128.html I'm embedded the Google Video link to Douglas Adam's Hyperland, and the one in the link below does not see active anymore. It is pretty common for links to migrate over the course of time, so it is often a... jeffmiller 2007-09-13T13:23:49-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/042049.html Perhaps inspired by the now-legendary medieval helpdesk video, a riff on 15th Century email: This is snagged off the Textologies newswire, and the comments added by Print is Dead blogger Jeff Gomez don't pull any punches on the significance of... blamb 2007-09-10T14:30:34-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/041897.html Sometimes it takes a look in the rearview mirror to remind ourselves that a medium as familiar to us as the printed book was once some new-fangled and rather disruptive technology. Take a look at the video below and you'll... jeffmiller 2007-09-03T13:11:58-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/031100.html I haven't had a chance to watch the full movie version of Hyperland closely yet (available as of today on Google Video), but what I've seen convinces me that this will be a nice complement to our study of hypertext... blamb 2006-09-12T13:06:12-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/031097.html Boing Boing alerts us to this debate between Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia's founder and chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation) and Dale Hoiberg (senior vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica). There seems to be some legitimate animus bubbling below... Off The Wire blamb 2006-09-12T12:35:37-08:00 http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/textologies/archives/030677.html I doubt the piece will appear online, but the latest issue of Harper's features a fairly extensive and often compelling discussion on the rise of educational gaming: Lesson plans are being adjusted accordingly. Last year hundreds of new educational video... Something's happening blamb 2006-08-29T14:17:52-08:00