Language and Literature

CFP: Currents in Electronic Literacy's upcoming issue, "The Commons"

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The editors of Currents in Electronic Literacy (an MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed e-journal) seek manuscripts for its upcoming issue, themed "The Commons." The manuscripsts should address the role or the relevance of the cultural commons for those working, teaching, or living in a mediated age.

French Through Songs and Singing: Language and Culture Through Music Online

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Aaron Prevots was looking to incorporate music more in his French language, literature and culture classrooms, and beyond that, to create a dynamic, collaborative space online in which to share this music and exchange information, articles and music-related pedagogy with others. The result: a multimedia educational Web site featuring music-related articles, streaming MP3's of primarily public domain material and annotated, downloadable lyrics. 

Using Student Podcasts in Literature Classes

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Asking students to create podcasts for literature classes opens up a whole new realm of learning for Professor Peter Schmidt and his students: “Students found that the readings brought the passages and the novels to life—and that when they heard passages aloud, they noticed many more things than when they just read an assignment before class. In addition, students could respond to the interpretations of the selections that the podcasts made—adding their own collaborative insights, arguing with the interpretation, etc. With literature, this new technology encourages close reading, thoughtful interpretation, and student involvement.”

Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past

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We hear a lot these days about the empowering shifts in readers' abilities to construct meaning and to change the "original" text made possible by new technology. But the phenomenon is at least as old as the early modern period, when it was used to good effect by writers like John Donne. Tatjana Chorney argues that "studying the dynamic of interactive reading is. . .not only a look back on past practice but also a model for studying integrative teaching and learning in a global world."

The Electronic Literature Organization Strikes Partnerships with the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois-Chicago

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The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO has moved to a nodal structure through new partnerships with the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois—Chicago. UI and UIC are the first of many anticipated "nodes" in an expanding network of institutions and universities committed to promoting and facilitating the writing, publishing and reading of electronic literature.

Home to the storied Writers' Workshop, the University of Iowa is already considered to be the best writing university in the country. The University of Chicago--Illinois hosts an important online journal on electronic literature and theory, ebr: The Electronic Book Review. Partnerships with the ELO expand the dimensions of all three organizations.

Thom Swiss, a professor in the University of Iowa English Department with a shared appointment in the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI), was recently elected president of the ELO. Swiss said the arrangement between the University of Iowa and the ELO will be a visible, international signal that Iowa, the nation's premier writing university, is also a leader in the digital age.

Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity Online Edition 2004

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The publication consists of: A full catalogue of the inscriptions, illustrated far more richly than would be possible in a conventional volume, and indexed by significant terms, lexical words, locations, dates, and bibliographical concordance; Commentary and historical narrative, epigraphic introductions and prosopographical appendices, fully cross-referenced and hyper-linked across the site; Reference materials including bibliography, links, clickable plans of the site, and repoductions of epigraphic notebooks; A free text search engine, in case what you are looking for is not in the very full indices. 

Using Technology in Learning to Speak the Language of Film

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The availability of relatively cheap and easy-to-use digital technologies now makes it possible to teach film and other media topics using the methods of film and multimedia production. This approach engages students in the language and process of making media and provides them with a critical awareness of how different technologies shape the messages that they communicate.
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