Fragmentation in the habit of reading and writing which appear to identify the digital natives, and the effects discussed in another article our line-us today to review some initiatives taken by this new right rhetoric hypermedia universe and adapt to traditional distribution of information transmitted in the modern age and until recently in volumes stipulated by the publisher and printer.
The first service is called Chapterizer and offers online library eBookPie . Sell complete books, or at how the popular iTunes for music, in fragments. Exploits an habitual division of chapters in the format of the codex, which has served us for centuries to break the capsule taped text or discrete units, so that the location of passages or development of a topic is presented in a more organized and or analytical. The new online service to differentiate the chapters, to separate those who are interested in, and buy it separately, if the rest of the book does not interest us. This is useful for technical books, no doubt. Would also, in fiction already known, select the favorite chapter or that we need. The service is directed to the editors, who decide to break up the text and offer these chapters.
The second service, which offers greater freedom for the end user, the reader, drink more open source and copyleft licenses, with the help of Wikipedia. It's called Book creator and also works in its English version . This is the same reader to draw his own book in PDF format (or OpenDocument) from the viewed items Wikipedia . In this way we create our thematic and reference books free download or request a hard copy if desired, for those who want to read on paper. Or, as some literary texts are part of the Wikimedia , create an anthology of texts selected as a favorite or essential purpose. The initiative is good because it offers greater flexibility to organize the readings visited the encyclopedia, but at the same time is a way of looking back, to adopt practices digitally as recently as the creation of books in the university school subject from photocopies of extracts from a list provided by the teacher, when it is not possible to buy the anthology art for public education by respectable editor.
The third service addresses precisely this latter practice, very common in the American university, to create readers or anthologies of readings for the course. McGraw Hill not long ago presented his The Ideal Reader, which can be chosen between 700 excerpts or chapters to form the perfect book for each teacher. The search can be done by authors, subjects, genres, and even what they call "rhetorical mode," which returns with some updates, the old classifications of discursive techniques of classical rhetoric (Yes, you see, from the narratio to argumentatio as you can see in the screenshot that I offer).
The teacher becomes editoautor online, participating in the process of composition book full of classic style to create a discourse (McGraw offers a beginning of it by inventio or recovery ideas and other materials-section find content - the dispositio by order of the materials or knowledge platitudes-section Arrange - and elocutio the final with a personal style customized materials created volume-section personalize -), all extracted, as I said, the anthology or encyclopedia topoi or common places offered and thematically and by pre- editorial. The final text can be ordered or downloaded in PDF form in a digital imitation of classical rhetoric actio.
Therefore, these procedures do not in themselves a great historical novel, and we must remember that in the days before printing, and especially as a common practice in scriptoria medieval manuscripts were created from various works to be gathered in one volume with a certain intent ( Compilatio ), for example shows the mss. P Lucanor Count, which contains five other different works. The practice was perpetuated even in the (sub) culture handwritten Renaissance and Baroque periods, centuries in which the university booksellers made copies of booklets to pecia (old handmade copies of copyists) for student use. Another technique associated with the world especially manuscript, then perpetuated in the press, was that of the marginalia or annotations commenting, corrected, expanded text, part of the same, but only read and annotated copies (each copy manuscript was therefore a different issue in itself for these reasons). Only with the advent of printing, the arrangement of chapters and fragments was gradually established and affiliated to an order determined by the edition (licensed, which also had, and many, pirates) and the volume that houses it. Without doubt, to the Enlightenment that branded paper printing, together with the assessment of the volume written as a source of knowledge over time has generated a special aura of authority to issue fixed, understood as the final piece, polished, tweaked and polished splendor of the truth about a subject.
latter is what the online services I've reviewed yet somehow perpetuate. While the beginning of each year, the teacher or the reader can create a new volume updating or changing some text, or adding new ones readily available, any necessary changes to make during the course itself becomes impractical, because the end result is being a fixed amount of physical or digital (PDF format and, even if you have the opportunity to be modified with relative ease, has the original quality of maintaining a fixed disposition of materials). Thus, from a perspective of knowledge as flexible text, the model offered by the two online services Comments needs a few more pushes, which would equal and eventually surpass the medieval practices.
- First, the ability of editing to change or alter their content at the moment that the publisher changed the text itself or add any information it
- Moreover, the ability of the reader or student (the teacher can do, but only by creating the issue) to include or add information outside of the text or not at any time during the course.
- We should also note the conspicuous absence of audiovisual materials and the connections that currently allow tags and links.
- And finally, it seems necessary because the incorporation of social networks to keep abreast readers, students, teacher, news about the central themes of the text being studied.
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Viewed from the perspective of hypermedia, these issues are not only incomplete, but fragmented and disconnected (for isolates) among its own materials. The now classic critique of the fragmentation of the text proposed hypermedia rhetoric could well be reversed here to address what was said. While these issues initially show a more personalized and accurate universe that the teacher wants to convey during a course, these issues developed in the cloud does not allow us to connect, to 2.0 so that have been created, or the various texts that compose or its hyperlinks to other texts or more knowledge out of it, not even allowed to take the text as a pretext same for margins to be adding new materials in hypermedia (or not) during the course, our findings linking them and class notes and study. Unless the student or reader to use a pdf editor, not even able to use the magnificent technique inherited marginalia of medieval scholasticism. Something that will recover and power, however, created Wordpress template by futureofthebook.org .
why I believe that if something should serve this work found compositio and divisio textus that generates so many opportunities as lectoeditores dispositio has, if anything we can take advantage with this fragmentation of materials, will be to refine the idea of \u200b\u200bmanaging a flexible volume, not to perpetuate or improve old and older only practices (which is certainly an interesting step in the relationship of the codex with digital), but also to go further and exploit the technologies of the moment to enable us to create a dispositio effective and relevant materials in the medium in which they broadcast.
McGraw Hill probably are thinking about it, and it would be irresponsible on their part, as a publishing company as strong as it is, not to do so soon. No doubt that the online service is very profitable at the moment (also directed to the publishers of fiction advertise their new gifts through chapters online vía twitter), y si bien es verdad que ofrece una cierta flexibilidad en el enfoque del libro de texto, lo que atraerá el interés de la mayoría de profesores, el camino más interesante y propio del medio digital está por recorrer.
En la wikipedia de hoy, la frase del día viene de la mano de Aristóteles, su Metafísica, y rubrica el trasfondo educativo del artículo de hoy:
«Todos los hombres por su naturaleza desean conocer»
Los dispositivos tecnológicos de conocimiento deben ayudar a poner los mejores medios (y el acceso a variados y diversos contenidos) para ello.
Los dispositivos tecnológicos de conocimiento deben ayudar a poner los mejores medios (y el acceso a variados y diversos contenidos) para ello.
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