Comments on: Course Reflection – Living out the Soapbox Speech http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/2009/04/18/course-reflection-living-out-the-soapbox-speech/ One Teacher-Librarian's Journey from Print to Web...to Web2.0 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:11:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: rubisr http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/2009/04/18/course-reflection-living-out-the-soapbox-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-52 rubisr Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:33:32 +0000 http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/?p=113#comment-52 Doug, An excellent point about the inherent need to evaluate everything one "absorbs" - regardless of format. Certainly I've read some real turkeys in my time. Can't help wondering how THEY got published and yet I can't crack that nut with my own efforts... Mulling over this post yesterday after I posted (guess I should have mulled and then posted, mmmm), it occurred to me that I never really got around to my point about how "quality" makes the web powerful. Without going off on another tangent, I guess, it's because in spite of my predilection for print, I recognize that the web's very size and scope makes it almost inevitable that much of what's so readily available there is far more focused and enlightening than can be easily found in print. Doug,
An excellent point about the inherent need to evaluate everything one “absorbs” – regardless of format. Certainly I’ve read some real turkeys in my time. Can’t help wondering how THEY got published and yet I can’t crack that nut with my own efforts…

Mulling over this post yesterday after I posted (guess I should have mulled and then posted, mmmm), it occurred to me that I never really got around to my point about how “quality” makes the web powerful. Without going off on another tangent, I guess, it’s because in spite of my predilection for print, I recognize that the web’s very size and scope makes it almost inevitable that much of what’s so readily available there is far more focused and enlightening than can be easily found in print.

]]> By: Doug Johnson http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/2009/04/18/course-reflection-living-out-the-soapbox-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Doug Johnson Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:26:52 +0000 http://edgingahead.edublogs.org/?p=113#comment-51 Hi Rob, Thanks for the heads up on Born Digital. Sounds like a must read. I've been working on Tapscott's Grown Up Digital and can recommend it as well. I would only take you to task for uniformly condoning a format - the book. Might I suggest that were we to look at print publishing as a whole - commercial presses, government presses, vanity presses, etc. - one might find materials as inaccurate, biased and dated as anything one can find on the Internet. (I think this is why they teach selection classes in library school.) I worry about reverse format bigotry as well! Man, I wish I could read at the speed you do! I am impressed the amount and quality of your list. I go on vacation, it's usually a mental vacation as well - cheap thrillers and historical fiction! Looking forward to meeting you in person in a few weeks. All the best, Doug Hi Rob,

Thanks for the heads up on Born Digital. Sounds like a must read. I’ve been working on Tapscott’s Grown Up Digital and can recommend it as well.

I would only take you to task for uniformly condoning a format – the book. Might I suggest that were we to look at print publishing as a whole – commercial presses, government presses, vanity presses, etc. – one might find materials as inaccurate, biased and dated as anything one can find on the Internet. (I think this is why they teach selection classes in library school.) I worry about reverse format bigotry as well!

Man, I wish I could read at the speed you do! I am impressed the amount and quality of your list. I go on vacation, it’s usually a mental vacation as well – cheap thrillers and historical fiction!

Looking forward to meeting you in person in a few weeks.

All the best,

Doug

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