And Site Map

- Project Rationale
- Funding Proposals
- National Endowment for the Humanities Proposal 1996
- UCSB Instructional Improvement Grant Proposals 1998, 1999, 2000
- Performance Reports
- NEH Interim Performance Report Feb. 28, 1999
- NEH Interim Performance Report Aug. 31, 1999
- Transcriptions: Funding Needs
- Activity Logs
- Project Log
- Sample Research Assistant Work Logs
- Talks & Essays
- Introductory Workshops
- Course Survey Responses
- Undergraduate Courses
- The Culture of Information, English 165CI, Fall 1999
- Weaving Webs: Native-American Literature, Oral Tradition, Internet, English 134NA, Winter 2000
- Graduate Courses
- The Culture of Information, English 236, Winter 2000
- Undergraduate Courses


- Courses Overview
- Academic Year 1999 - 2000
- Alan Liu, English 165CI: The Culture of Information (Undergraduate)
- Christopher Schedler, English 134NA: "Weaving Webs": Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, and Internet (Undergraduate)
- Carol Braun Pasternack, English 165SS: Scroll to Screen (Undergraduate)
- Alan Liu, English 236: The Culture of Information (Graduate)
- William Warner, English 197: Techno-Gothic: Imagining the Cyborg (Undergraduate)
- Academic Year 2000 - 2001
- Christopher Newfield, American Literature and Business Culture (Undergraduate)
- Charles Bazerman, History of Written Culture (Undergraduate)
- Alan Liu, Theory of the Postmodern (Undergraduate)
- Alan Liu, English 165: The Culture of Information (Undergraduate)
- Carol Braun Pasternack, Imperial Text (Graduate)
- William Warner, Censorship and Free Speech: from Milton to Cyberspace
- Alan Liu, Canon Revision: History, Theory, Practice (Graduate)
- Academic Year 2001 - 2002

- Workshops Overview
- Academic Year 1999 - 2000
- William Paulson, "Literary Culture and the Worlds of Science"
- Richard Grusin, "The Web and Cultural Difference"
- Jackie Spafford, "Student-Assigned Websites"
- Muriel Zimmerman, "Digital Writing: A Technical Communication Perspective"
- Chris Schedler, "Weaving Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, Internet"
- Carol Pasternak, "Using the Web in the Writing Components of Literature Courses"
- Alan Liu, "Should We Historicize the Culture of Information?"
- J.Hillis Miller, "Marcel on the Telephone"
- Ann Bermingham, "Narrative, Memory, Archive: Some Thoughts on Louisa Conolly's Print Room at Castletown, Co. Kildare"
- Matt Kirschenbaum, "Understanding Information"
- Sanjoy Banerjee, "The Classroom of the Future"
- Carl Gutierrez-Jones, "The Affirmative Action Web Site: History and Practice"
- Rita Raley, "How to Make things with words: Hypertext and Literary Value"
- Chuck Bazerman, "Information As Political Intervention: the Grater St. Louis Citizen’s Committee for Nuclear Information"
- Academic Year 2000 - 2001
- Academic Year 2001 - 2002

- Resources Overview
- Guides to Readings
in Literature and Information Culture
- Bookshelf (Brief descriptions and mini-reviews of works in a variety of media that developers of the Transcriptions project or speakers in its colloquium series have been reading. These are the works that are helping to shape the intellectual direction of the Transcriptions project. The Bookshelf is a searchable database.)
- Hypertext Literature (annotated catalogue of representative works of hypertext fiction, poetry, and theory in a variety of media, both offline and online works; includes a guide to the Transcription studio's library of publications by the Eastgate company)
- Guide to Online
Research
- Online Research Resources (library catalogues, digital text archives, periodical indices, etc.; includes both general-access and UCSB-only resources)
- Online Reference Resources (dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, encyclopedias, etc.)
- Online Resources for Writing and Speaking (grammer and style guides, writing tips, advice on oral presentations, etc.)
- Evaluating & Citing Online Resources (checklists, exercises, examples, and annotated links; also includes a printable form to use in tracking and evaluating online sites)
- Guide to Technology
in Transcriptions Courses
- Overview (Brief descriptions of technologies at work in Transcriptions courses and the theory behind implementing them.)
- How to Post Messages in the Exchange Messaging Environment (step-by-step guide)
- How to Use the Web to Add/Edit Content in the Project's Timeline or Linkbase Databases (step-by-step guide)
- Resources for Web-Authoring (design and how-to advice for both beginning and advanced Web authors; includes links to HTML and design style guides, help with images, and examples of good and bad design)
- Web-Authoring Basics (basic outline of the process required to download, revise, and upload web pages associated with Transcriptions courses)
- For Instructors
and Developers:
- Teaching with Information Technology (annotated links to resources and tools for designing courses utilizing IT; also includes example sites)
- Developer Resources for Transcriptions Project (Templates for course and topics pages, Photoshop templates for images, Descriptions of web technology used in HTML design, Cascading Style Sheets [CSS], Server Side Includes [SSI], and relevant information)
- Transcriptions Bookshelf These are the works that are helping to shape the intellectual direction of the Transcriptions project—works in a variety of media that developers in the project or speakers in its colloquium series have been reading (or creating). Searchable citations accompanied by annotations or commentary.




