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Courses in the Transcriptions project are designed not just to
teach students majoring in the humanities skills in information
technology but to integrate those skills with the themes of the
curriculum (see Project Rationale).
Students without their own computers and Internet access can make
use of university resources (see below).
English 122tg uses the following information technologies:
You will be able to do all the course assignments if you are
familiar with e-mail and can cut-and-paste text into forms on
a Web page. Additionally, in doing team web pages, there are opportunities
for those interested in Web-authoring, graphic design, or other
more advanced technical work to try their hand.
General philosophy regarding technology in this course:
Because much of the information technology used in the Transcriptions
project is new to the humanities (much of it is being personally
configured, coded, or designed by Transcriptions instructors and
research assistants), there are sure to be glitches, gotchas,
and bugs. This is not a problem but an opportunity. Transcriptions
-- and this course on "Cyborg Genealogies" in particular
-- encourages a philosophical approach to the experience of information
technology. Problems should be reflected upon in the process of
evaluating the overall life of contemporary information. (For
instance, if you are having trouble accessing a site or are experiencing
delays, how might those practical problems be related to larger
issues of access or time in contemporary culture? Why is a delay
of a minute now so frustrating compared to the delays of days,
weeks, or months that societies in the past accepted as part of
the normal rhythm of human communication?) In his Zen Computer,
Philip Toshio Sudo suggests that as you sit down to boot up your
computer you should first acknowledge it and what it means:
"Before you start and after you finish working, make this
one simple gesture toward your computer: Give it a nod" (fuller
quote).
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Course E-Mail List
(with Threaded Web Archive)
Most basically, the course will use e-mail to allow students
and the instructor to engage with each other outside class.
E-mail can be both individual and collective. [Before too
long, I will give you the email addresses of all those in
the class.] To share in the class's collective e-mail discussion
(required), you can post messages to our class alias: engl122tg@humanitas.ucsb.edu
. By writing a regular email to this address, your message
will be broadcast to the instructor and the whole class.
If you "reply" it will be broadcast to all, unless
you specify reply to sender only.
For help with e-mail in general or to set up a university
e-mail account, contact U-Mail at Instructional Computing
in Phelps Hall or see the U-Mail web page at http://www.umail.ucsb.edu/
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Metacollege Messaging
Environment (with Web Interface): our course contact is
Chris Schedler
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Students without their own computer
and Internet access, or those desiring faster or supplementary computing
resources, may use the PC or Mac labs at Instructional Computing
(Phelps Hall 1521). Members of English 122tg can pick up priority-access
stickers from 9 am to 4 pm on Oct. 7-8 in the Phelps Courtyard.
These stickers permit use of the labs during hours not reserved
by other courses for in-lab lectures. For lab schedules, see http://www.ic.ucsb.edu
or call 893-8414. Instructional Computing also offers orientation
workshops during the first week of the quarter and software workshops
throughout the quarter. For information about the software (including
Web editors) available at the labs, see http://shg.ic.ucsb.edu/ |
