The Book, Eci511, 071110 Reduced

Reading Backward Moving Forward

The Blog of Ordinary Knowledge in a Digital Age

1Sunday, July 11, 2010

Preface:

Educators continue to look for new and better ways of reaching their students.

The Blog of Ordinary Knowledge may be the answer.


What We Have


Stone Tablets

•Difficult to make•Heavy•Cannot be annotated•Not reproducible•Any error renders unusable

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Clay Tablets

•Fragile•Heavy•Cannot be annotated•Not reproducible





Papyrus Scroll

•Fragile•Ephemeral•Difficult to browse•Requires special storage

http://www.schoyencollection.com/papyri_files/ms2752.jpg




e-Reader•Fragile•Costly•Requires electricity•Requires Internet connection•Cumbersome annotation

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iPod Touch iPhone

•Fragile•Small screen•Cumbersome annotation•Requires Internet•Requires electricity

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What We Need


Blog of Ordinary Knowledge

Portable

Convenient size

Lightweight

No need for electricity or Internet connection

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Durable

Unbreakable packaging

Can last hundreds of years

The item pictured is over 500 years old

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Easily annotated

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Environmentally sound, sustainable materials

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Reproducible

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Mass Production

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Mass Distribution

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Easy to operate

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Available in graduated levels

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Multimedia

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Multiple programming languages

Translations available

Knowledge of one language can often be transferred to another

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Coverage: Broad

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Coverage: Deep

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Attractive

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Easy to store and display

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B.o.O.K. Use



Appropriate working environment

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Finding: metadata tags

Subject

Title

Author

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Finding: particular item

Call number

Shelf list

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Finding: general information

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Finding: particular information

Search

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Retaining your place

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B.o.O.K. Interface



Individual

Asynchronous

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Group

Synchronous

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The great democratizing force

Egalitarian

Standardized

Mass produced and distributed

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Afterword:

This presentation is based on the fantasy that the digital somehow preceded the analog. Therefore, the book (Blog of Ordinary Information, aka: B.o.O.K.) should be seen as a new, analog method for disseminating information.


Bibliography:

Manguel, A. (1996). A history of reading. New York, NY: Penguin Books.

Nord, P. N., Rubin, J. S., & Schudson, M. (Eds.) (2009). A history of the book in America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Ostler, N. (2005). Empires of the word: A language history of the world. New York, NY: HarperCollins.


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