Category Archives: Teaching

Posts about pedagogy and teaching and learning with technology or without.

Improving a Teaching and Reading Tool

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Sean O'Brien

Last year, my colleague Eric Morgan and I made a web-application called theCatholic Youth Literature Project.  It was designed as a classroom tool to offer students opportunities for close- and distant-reading of 19th-century texts and possibilities for the class as … Continue reading →

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Make session: Social Reading Toolkit

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Lauren Stern

I propose to create an implementation toolkit for social reading.  I’d personally like to create a toolkit for academic libraries, but that’s open to the participants – we can make the toolkit as general or as specific as we need … Continue reading →

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Talk Session Proposal: Interaction Traces: Reader, Interface, and the Social

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Patrick Williams

I’d like to lead a conversation about the affordances of social reading environments and their implications for readers’ perception of texts, their authors, and their co-readers.  My interest in these questions draws from my research in computer-supported cooperative learning and … Continue reading →

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