Ex 4: Annotated List of Links

As my term project is developing templates and generating both Setonian Magazine documents (eBook and physical magazine), I took some time to look at both. Part of my investigation has been done previously, but it’s worth looking into yet again. I tried to find a balance between iBooks sources and physical magazine sources, but one [...]

March 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: EL 336 | One comment

Motivation leads to greatness

Deci identifies two intrinsic motivations that might be labeled ‘personal:’ the desire to be autonomous (to determine what we do and how we do it) and the desire to be competent (to be good at what we do).

–Shirkey, Cognitive Surplus 75

Motivation.

It is the driving force for everything we do in life. As Clay [...]

March 20th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: EL 336 | Leave a comment

Portfolio #2

So…somehow I completely forgot about this portfolio. I’m going to childishly blame it on my preoccupation while in New Orleans…

For this portfolio, the theme seems to focus primarily on electronic writing and where writing will turn in the future. We touched on ebooks, epublishing, memes, blogging and old school text adventure games.

Depth: I [...]

March 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: EL 336, Portfolios | Leave a comment

Hacking your way into being self-published

As Dr. Jerz requested, I took a look more specifically at the art of “hacking and making” your own eBooks. In Matthew Kirschenbaum’s “Hello Worlds,” he discusses the importance of knowing how to hack and how to code programs. The same could definitely be applied to generating eBooks. In a way, Aja and I have [...]

February 28th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: EL 336 | Leave a comment
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