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The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink
WOW!!!!!
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- Or you could think of browsing as a new kind of ludic: an unsettling, fragmented experience that is still comprehensible in the sense that a David Lynch movie is comprehensible. It is a kind of ludic that can never be created within one brain. Click trails are texts whose coherence derives from your mind, but whose elements derive from multiple other minds.
In other words, when you browse and skim, you aren’t distracted and unfocused. You are just reading a very dissonant book you just made up.
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The multi-voiced nature of today’s hyper-writing is different. The difference lies in the fact that the entire world of human experience has been textualized online.
A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy
A truly valuable and important article about learning
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the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, and respond.
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Our language constrains visual design to mere styling and separates aesthetics and usability, as if they are distinct considerations
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Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » Usability means social means network…means usable
How to use Twitter for learning purposes. Twitter triage!
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A couple of times a day, I skim tweets and click on promising links. Each link opens a new tab in Firefox. Usually I end up with six or eight tabs, ideal for quick browsing.
Skimming, round two, involves those tabs. I’ll start reading the link and do a kind of cognitive triage: close; read and close; read, tag (in Delicious), and close.
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
Very interesting - I disagree with some aspects, but the reference to deep, linear reading and what happens when we read on the web is, IMHO, accurate.
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linear, deep-focus reading.
Reading the Reader | Academic Commons
Great insight into reading and researching students reading - "These electronic annotations make the implicit explicit and are a pedagogically powerful tool I would ordinarily have neither the time nor resources to employ. They help me diagnose reading strengths and weaknesses around a given text and decide where to place the focus of discussion and assignments. What do they understand and what don’t they? Where does the text make sense and where doesn’t it? Electronic annotation also presents an integrated tool that strengthens students’ critical reading. It forces them to slow down and become metacognitively aware of their reading in real time." via Stephen Downes
The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com
What all teachers, esp. those teaching communications & researching should be doing.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, not to mention the popularity of text-messaging on cell phones, we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice. But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self. “We are not only what we read,” says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist at Tufts University and the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. “We are how we read.” Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
Blogging and Reading Comprehension Strategies « Classroom Tech Tips
Help for students learning how to leave comments on blogs.
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