OK, Go Slow Media

I only heard comments from three of you about the video blog idea. Those three were thrilled, and recommended that the rest of the class do all the difficult technical work [hahaha -- just half-joking]. They were scared. So, we'll wait -- but I do want to investigate electronic forms of representation [electronic representation in terms of Ong's schema]. I'm less concerned with technical skills, but wonder if we can begin to think of the writing as analogous to this second-orality. To consider the presentation of your work in terms of a change in the way we communicate? We no longer live in a culture dominated by print-based sensorium [print used as Ong uses it].

Only one of you has sent me a brief line or two on your intention in assignment one and what you accomplished, but nothing fancy needed -- just a sense that you thought about presentation [in terms of Ong and grammatology] as much as the content.

What I looked for in the projects was three columns [or the mention of three systems]. Beyond that I looked for a level of detail and nuance that would quickly and easily give the user a sense of what each of those three systems entail in terms of production, consumtion, and even in terms of identity formation. What I looked for in the time-line was a sense that you fully and completely appreciated key moments in the development of these systems and in the overlap of the systems. So, even now we have many oral cultural traditions thriving: learning to cook, praying or talking-in-tongues, singing, and more. Obviously, the dominant forms inflect [infect] everything, and I wanted the time-lines to express this intermingling as well as the development of each of the three systems.

Beyond that I want you to express the information using aspects from each of the systems -- well, especially the electronic system.

As you can surely witness yourselves, your classmates have set the bar very high. We should collect this work in a public place and allow other T&T students to study it and cite it -- certainly it would be useful for undergraduates and even K-12 students.

More soon. Why is it that the blog, email, etc. leads back to the epistlery or e-pistle?