kkoltunf – THATCamp Jewish Studies 2012 http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:17:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Digital Mediums and Digital Literacies http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org/12/12/108/ http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org/12/12/108/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:31:04 +0000 http://jewishstudies2012.thatcamp.org/?p=108 Continue reading ]]>

I have become increasingly interested in three interrelated areas: 1) employing digital technologies in the classroom (iPads and Prezis); 2) utilizing digital spaces to open collaborative research projects (Comment Press); and 3) examining technology as a medium.  The relations among these three areas is somewhat obscure to me, but I sense an underlying concern with representation and exposure: how do particular technologies mediate content?  Using iPads in the classroom, for example, alters social dynamics even as it sustains a more vibrant syllabus—the technology mediates content in a way that both limits and expands.  Comment Press (a plugin for the popular WordPress blog platform) can support interactive collaborative work, but it enforces a form of navigation that I find both liberating and confining.  All this is to say that while I employ digital technologies to enhance my teaching and research, I am also increasingly aware of those technologies as digital mediums that represent images and texts in fascinating and frustrating ways.  I would like to think more about technology as a medium and the kinds of literacies we require to be more reflective users of it.

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