Title: Bartelby the Scrivener: A[n interactive, annotated] story of Wall Street. Author: Andrew Kahn (and Herman Melville) Publication: Slate Release Date: October 22, 2015 Website: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/10/ herman_melville_s_bartleby_the_scrivener_an_interactive_annotated_text.html This webtext-of-the-month takes Slate’s recent experiment with interactive annotations as an opportunity to consider the pedagogical affordances of digital annotation. In the piece, Slate’s Andrew Kahn reproduces the entire text of Herman Melville’s famously opaque short story, “Bartelby, the Scrivener,” weaving digitally embedded annotations throughout. The annotations allow Kahn to insert his own textual analyses and bite-sized snippets of scholarly commentary. The annotations are “interactive” in that they can be filtered by theme, which range…
Author: Leigh Meredith
Leigh is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests center on digital representation, subjectivity, and intersections between old and new media.
In conjunction with our Blog Carnival on digital literacy in K-12 classroom, I had the opportunity to chat with Delia DeCourcy, a Literacy Consultant with Oakland Schools and the Associate Director of the Oakland Writing Project in Waterford, Michigan. In October, Delia coordinated the 4T Virtual Conference on digital writing, an online conference that focused on research, pedagogy, and tools for writing in digital spaces in the K-12 classroom. During our talk, Delia discusses the genesis of the 4T Conference and the partnerships that made it possible. She addresses some of the logistical challenges (such as creating interactive sessions) and…
Depending on your standards for digital expertise, you’d probably consider me a digital amateur. At least in my personal life, that is. I could blame this on my age – which has me teetering on the edge of Millennial but not quite making me “digital native.” When I was in eighth grade people still had long, boring, phone conversations when they were supposed to be finishing their algebra homework instead of long, boring text conversations. Alternatively, I could blame it on my speaking style – I tend to gesticulate emphatically, which obviously doesn’t translate that well to text. It’s not…