Posted by Jerry on March 7th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, New media, Writing
We deal so much on the web with visual literacy and linguistic literacy, but as direct oral communication gets easier on the web so much can be lost in translation – from English to English due to regional variation in accent. At George Mason University there is a great site for exploring an archive of accents from around the world.
You can browse by region or via the world map and there are sound samples as well as a descriptive linguistic transcription. Fascinating site! Check it out 🙂
Thanks to languagehat for the link 🙂 and to Sharon for pointing it out to me
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Posted by Jerry on February 23rd, 2007 — Posted in Journal, New media, Technology, Writing
Beth’s Blog has a great remix of Marnie Webb’s Ten Ways to Use Web 2.0 Tools – well worth a visit because it underlines the key principle that it’s about the people first and foremost 🙂
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on February 21st, 2007 — Posted in Journal, New media, Technology, Writing
MIT’s New Media Literacies website is integrating new media into education for K-12 students. The site makes good use of participatory technologies – blogs, Flickr, and so on to stimulate students. And it showcases free videos and student activities. One of the best introductions I’ve seen to video-blogging or vblogs is the tutorial by Steve Garfield, John Barth, Jason Crow and Four Eyed Monsters on Flickr
The series includes:
- Welcome to videoblogging
- Is videoblogging news?
- basic production
- Community and conversation
- Film making2.0
- Ethics and Ownership
- Vlogs as citizen media
It’s well worth a visit 🙂
Thanks to Beth’s Blog for the link.
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on February 19th, 2007 — Posted in New media, Technology, Theory, Writing
This is an excellent read, with many of my favourite authors – Colin Lankshear, Michele Knobel and Angela Thomas to name a couple 😉
And better still, New Literacies Sampler is not only available as a hard-copy book, but has also been published electronically online by the publisher – now THAT’s what I call a forward thinking publisher!
Thanks to Angela for pointing to this one 🙂
Cheers
Jerry
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Posted by Jerry on February 17th, 2007 — Posted in Journal, New media, Technology, Writing
I have had occasion recently to address a copyright issue, when one of my papers turned up on an Estonian website and then many iterations of it around the web all linked back to the Estonian one, and not to my original on my site. While I’m not precious about my work, and am quite happy to see the text appear on Wikipedia, my objection was to the further links that did not come my way.
I was able to amend the link on Wikipedia, but other derivative sites clearly had old versions. After writing a series of emails pointing out the error of their ways, I found the major sites like Wikipedia and Answers.com responded within hours by amending the link to reflect the true copyright owner – so congratulations to those sites. Others seem to stream the information to seemingly orphan pages devoid of any email contact points, and to those I wrote to the top level domain operator pending further action.
But it did also get me thinking about the concept of copyright, and of its variations aimed at allowing people to take something in the public arena and develop it collectively with anyone who stops by. This broadly, is the concept of copyleft.
Then there is a kind of middle ground – a creative commons licence, in which copyright is still retained, while allowing free downloads and use of the material. In a sense, that is the spirit in which my band site offers its MP3 downloads – you can download for free and enjoy as many times as you like, as long as you attribute the music to Full Circle Band, and not claim it as your own.
As far as my material is concerned, I’m happy for people to quote it, download it, or link to it – all I ask is attribution for my work and a courtesy link to my version of the piece. Site rippers are, in the words of the great Jar Jar Binks: ‘So rude!’
Cheers
Jerry
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