Comments on: Digital Versions of Life Narrative

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:38:53 +0000

Aaaaand…the link to the Coupland review is here:

www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/books/review/gods-without-men-by-hari-kunzru.html?pagewanted=all

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:37:42 +0000

George, I have been toying with the best way to introduce the eportfolio notion into the classroom. It is best done in the broad, institutional, cross-classroom way you describe has been undertaken at Mary Washington. As an adjunct, I will be looking at ways to do it in a single classroom model, which is not as meaningful but it is a start. Am very, very interested in teaching writing to students in a way that moves us beyond the destructive “improve yourself and know your questions in a single term” dynamic.

Alison, I found the article I made reference to in yesterday’s session here–Douglas Coupland reviewing Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Mercy. The value of it is Coupland’s extended meditation on the fluid, anachronistic environment for thought and literature that has been accelerated by the Internet, a movement he calls “translit.” The implications of this anachronistic “ever now” environment interest me a lot…maybe something here for how to engage, intepret, assemble, and reassemble the lives of historic figures…?

Bethany, does the time element I have just described have a good interface with the quantified self topic? I have not yet even reviewed the link you offered but would like to track that idea over time (pun not intended).

Would love to keep talking with all of you. I am at lisaschamess@gmail.com

By: George Brett

George Brett — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:13:57 +0000

lisaschamess @magpie (Megan Brett) brought WoolenCraft to my attention. So I joined her and signed up.

Questions: would this be like aggregating one’s digital footprint? I have begun to have a blog that is primarily feeds from other sources to provide a time line and content.

Or could this be presented or thought of as an ePortfolio for students to begin to capture and collect better samples of their work that they would be willing to share or at least keep as a private diary for later project resources?

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:53:45 +0000

...and, uh, well, here is something odd and wonderful...tonight I was busy doing something not *even* close to nothing on Kickstarter when this crossed the transom. It's got lives, women's lives, digital, pedagogical, looks to be incredibly beautiful and fun. Whatever it is, I thought it should go in this thread: Wollstonecraft: A Children's Book Project

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:28:05 +0000

It was fascinating to rework that piece for a digital audience (and I frankly think you are the first to actually click the links :-) ), because CN does not normally do much with digital. It was originally only a print piece, and when they went to republish it, the notion of including lateral links and playful asides as a kind of meta-commentary and parallel treasure trove to enliven the essay had not even occurred to them. I am especially fond of the Easter Egg I buried at the very end.

By: Alison Booth

Alison Booth — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:21:05 +0000

I love the Samuel Pepys piece–wonderful links! It’s exciting to historicize serial personal narrative/social networking. I’ll have a look at Quantified Self, too. I always want to work with Bethany, who has a gift for making it feel mutual (-;

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:34:58 +0000

I would love that, Bethany, as I seem to be following you and Alison around now and it would make my commuter easier.

By: Bethany Nowviskie

Bethany Nowviskie — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:31:51 +0000

There are some interesting resonances here with the Quantified Self movement, which I mention in my proposal. A combined session might be fun.

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:37:33 +0000

whoops — just adding this postscript so I can subscribe to this thread…

By: lisaschamess

lisaschamess — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:37:08 +0000

Alison, I am intrigued. I am not a particularly hardcore academic nor a true DH scholar, but deeply interested in the possibilities for narrative online.

Last year I published an essay in Creative Nonfiction on what Samuel Pepys might have made (and made of himself) in our age: www.creativenonfiction.org/thejournal/articles/issue42/schamess.html

I have toyed with continuing to look at this theme in the larger context of diary-making. I am also working at a memoir and a novel, both of which have important points of contact with online environments and curation of artifacts–what exactly those points of contact are, I am still trying to discover.

Count me in!

By: ab6j

ab6j — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:41:44 +0000

No, though it’s good to be reminded about it. Daniel is in the thick of that, and is helping with the schema, but when we discussed it, it seemed that their standards weren’t going to be directly useful for this project.

By: Ethan Gruber

Ethan Gruber — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:49:57 +0000

Hi Allison,

Are you using EAC-CPF for this?