Friday, May 30, 2008

I can't help but wonder...

As I step back for just a second from my own "rah-rah! Computers and & Writing" position and think about the impact of some of the videos we use to show our work to other people (and I think I'm hypersensitive to this due to a presentation I made at C&W where I showed some of my own video work), I wonder if maybe we don't scare some of the more "traditional" print-based alphabetic text composition instructors.

I've seen "The Machine is Us/ing Us" before, but I hadn't ever really stopped to think about that opening sequence with the text being erased, and erased, then totally erased.

It's one of those "Phill has to get to campus" under-developed thoughts that I'll keep chewing on, but I wonder if maybe what we find exciting and compelling isn't always the best way to present ourselves to everyone (ah, yes, thinking audience before drinking the morning coffee-- I am insane).

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