Comments on: What Will Happen To Books–NY Times

By: Lynn Manning Ross

Lynn Manning Ross — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:15:35 +0000

These great comments inspired me to leave mine: Two CDs, Compton’s Encyclopedia 2000, that came with my computer wowed me from the beginning and triggered a flow of ideas including the ones discussed about Kelly’s article. Whoever developed Compton’s software was a genius at the idea of “tags, referencing, noting, bookmarking, etc.” Having used it over these past 5 years, I can only imagine what Kelly’s description of our future will mean to a world of learners when a Compton-like tool for the Web becomes a reality! PS: If anyone reading this would like a FREE tech-term dictionary that has just been released, here’s the link http://www.smartsite.com/lamebrain.html. Just load it on your desktop for quick reference (our community college uses it).

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Weekly Roundup (21 May 2006) at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk — Sun, 21 May 2006 21:13:02 +0000

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By: Collin Vs. Blog

Collin Vs. Blog — Fri, 19 May 2006 10:30:58 +0000

Kevin Kelly, “Scan This Book!”…

I have to admit that I was all ready to read Kevin Kelly’s piece for the NYT Magazine (“Scan This Book!”) and to dislike it. I was ready to dismiss it as this decade’s version of Robert Coover’s “classic,” “The……

By: Tim Schoch

Tim Schoch — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:58:11 +0000

I am in love with the idea of being able to enjoy information or entertainment as I wish it…sometimes in print form, sometimes digital, sometimes shared. No need to prepare our kids… their culture is all over this. I mean, I still think of my cellphone as a telephone, silly me. It took my boys to actually show me that a phone has an alphabet you can use to do “other things.” Fiddlesticks.

By: Mark Mitchell

Mark Mitchell — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:09:04 +0000

Sorry about the above link. It seems that my “X” in 24×7 is confusing the server. Try this link: http://www.corporate.books24x7.com

By: Terry Freedman

Terry Freedman — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:58:14 +0000

I don’t wish to lower the tone of the discussion, but why was Dave Warlick travelling to a distance learning conference?! LOL

By the way, Will, I received yr book and will be reviewing it shortly.

By: Mark Mitchell

Mark Mitchell — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:40:04 +0000

My Referenceware website: http://www.corporate.books24x7.com/home2.asp

By: Mark Mitchell

Mark Mitchell — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:38:27 +0000

If you go to our website listed above, you will see the future today. We are a powerful collection of business professional and well-being references (10,700+ books and articles ) that use the power of internet linking, annotation, sharing, search etc. to put these resources at one’s finger tips. The collections grow hourly and are not static. And you don’t need to store or move any books! Sometime, ask me to tell you about the time in graduate school a makeshift wall of books in my apartment toppled over on me! Mark

By: English Education Professor

English Education Professor — Wed, 17 May 2006 04:31:07 +0000

[...] Weblogg-ed » What Will Happen To Books–NY Times “In addition to a link, which explicitly connects one word or sentence or book to another, readers will also be able to add tags, a recent innovation on the Web but already a popular one. A tag is a public annotation, like a keyword or category name, that is hung on a file, page, picture or song, enabling anyone to search for that file. For instance, on the photo-sharing site Flickr, hundreds of viewers will “tag” a photo submitted by another user with their own simple classifications of what they think the picture is about: “goat,” “Paris,” “goofy,” “beach party.” Because tags are user-generated, when they move to the realm of books, they will be assigned faster, range wider and serve better than out-of-date schemes like the Dewey Decimal System, particularly in frontier or fringe areas like nanotechnology or body modification. No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:

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By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:36:47 +0000

If:book has an interesting piec both on its blog and in the new Library Journal. http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/05/ifbook_in_library_journal.html

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Sam’s random musings » What Will Happen To Books–NY Times — Tue, 16 May 2006 15:16:51 +0000

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By: Paul Trotta

Paul Trotta — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:54:00 +0000

We are currently previewing Questia,an online database with individual student accounts. Students can write footnotes,comments or underline text, but,in a subset of tagging, teachers have access to the student’s comments.

If the database reaches the point where an entire paper can be written using Questia resources, the teacher then has a record of the steps the student took in writing the paper.

Or the teacher could ask students to analyze a piece of writing of writing, highlighting and commenting on salient points.

While my school may not buy Questia, for those schools that do, the future is very close.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:41:57 +0000

This is an important discussion. As we teach students (and ourselves) to critically interact and evaluate printed messages, we should realize that something is also being lost in that process. Chris referred to it as distracting him from his original intent in reading an article.

The link below is to an essay by John Leinhard that I heard years ago on my local NPR station. I still refer to it often in conversations about the printed word v. interactive media.

Something will be lost if everything we read is linked and tagged and we no longer immerse ourselves in the journey the author intends for us to take.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi877.htm

By: Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:14:01 +0000

RE tagging, and its use in education — I try and teach tagging as an extension of critical thinking — tagging allows users to create connections (and then, later, retrace those connections) between disparate thoughts/pieces of content — tagging gets to evaluating, comparing, and categorizing sources.

RE people reading less: I would also say that people read for a shorter duration — This also strikes me as something that technology has exacerbated, but not caused. The amount people read (and the depth to which they examine texts) has as much to do with curriculum design and instructional style as it does with the technology that delivers/structures/supports the lesson.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:59:39 +0000

The one thing that is like the elephant in the room with all of this is that it doesn’t matter whether it’s paper or digital, people are reading less and less. That’s the biggest issue in my eyes…