Adieu for now!

Hey fellow members! I just wanted to say thanks for the great time I had working with you all this semester. I learned a lot from each of you and it's been difficult but I'm glad we could work in groups so often. Hope you all you have a great Christmas vacation and who knows, maybe we'll all find ourselves in a class again!

Arrivaderci!

A Medium for Every Nation

                Different forms of media have existed for each generation of Americans today just as for any civilization in history. Some forms of knowledge are more suited to the nation’s size and structure than others in keeping the peace, establishing law and general management. Although multiple forms of media for knowledge exist in a society, the dominant media of that people affects the size and control of governmental power.

Final Post: Superiority of Folk Knowledge

Throughout this semester, we have investigated four different types of knowledge: folk knowledge, oral knowledge, written knowledge, and print knowledge. Folk knowledge we defined as knowledge that you come by informally, usually from some kind of expert. Examples of folk knowledge can include how to breed bunnies, how to crack a bull whip, and how to play an instrument or a sport. Due to the nature of this unique type of knowledge, folk knowledge accommodates collaboration and building a community more than other types of knowledge.

Final Blog: Why Print Knowledge Continues to Dominate

Although digital knowledge has expanded, and continues to expand, the way the world interacts and gains information, digital knowledge has not yet replaced print as the dominant form of knowledge.  All of the forms of knowledge that have dominated the world thus far (folk, oral, written and print) have encountered a transition period in which a new medium of knowledge is introduced, but the previous medium remains more influential.  Print and digital knowledge are in the middle of this time of transition.

Final blog post: collaboration and community-building

Although oral, written, and print forms of knowledge do accommodate collaboration and community-building, folk knowledge accommodates collaboration and builds community more because it requires human connection. 

Knowledge. Picture by me.

Reinventing Knowledge Final: The Strongest Form of Knowledge

As knowledge forms have progressed from folk, to oral, to written, and finally to print, institutions of knowledge have slowly graduated towards more formality. Because of this, it is easy to assume that with formality comes a loss of humanity, a loss of connection between learners. Therefore, among the four forms of knowledge, folk manifests itself as the most reasonably personal. However, this is not true. While folk knowledge at first appears to be the most collaborative and easily connective form of knowledge, the prior experience of individuals better indicates which knowledge form they connect to best.

FINALS FINALS FINALS!!!!!

Hello everyone! It's sort of weird to think we're coming to an end! I could go on and on about the weirdness of it, but for now, let's cut to the chase. BEHOLD! My notes for today's discussion:

Preparation For the Final!

Hey Everyone! Well, I'm excited to be able to gather all the information we've learned over the semester into one big discussion. I think it will be enjoyable and we can reminisce as well.

Finals fun + salon prep + conclusions

Hey guys! Enjoy my table! 

But before you check out the table, a bit of fun...

Source. No. 3 is my favorite lol.

Final Notes

This has been a great semester!
Here are my notes for the final:

Notes on the Semester for the Final

This is my little table of notes for the semester.  It makes sense to me, if it does not make sense to you I apologize.

Rosetta project: revisiting history

(Get it? Because I'm just posting this blog now?!)

I participated in part two of the Rosetta project (unit 3 final). It was fascinating!

Research paper: problems and solutions

Here is a summary of problems I've encountered and solutions I've found as working on my research paper.

Photo by me.

Children's Literature and History

HELP!!! I need some body help! Not just any body! Help! You know I need someone! Won't you PLEASE help me?!!

Okay, so I'm not quite that desperate, but with the stress of finals and the end of the semester, I thought we could all use a good laugh and take solace in the fact that at least we don't have it as bad as these people. In any case, I have a confession and I'm going to be an adult about it and take whatever pains will come with this confession: I'm horribly behind on this paper. Do you ever feel that you're drowning in papers and no matter how hard you try they just keep piling up and you just get less and less sleep and though you try to finish things by an ideal time, it's just not happening? That was me this past week.

So after  my momentous struggle with myself and my papers, I'm finally getting to posting my ideas for this paper. I know it's so last minute, but if any one has any contributions I'd greatly appreciate them! Without further ado, I give you Children's Literature and History!

Publishers and Typesettings: The Land that Grows them

North vs South!

So I've been putting the finishing touches on my draft for today's paper (okay it's definitely a draft!) and I have some thoughts that I am excited to use and others that I'm not so sure about, so I could use some feedback. I'll give you a brief road map of my thoughts and then the themes that I am wondering about using.

Persuasive Paper about the Book Trade

The immediate predicament I discovered when presented with this assignment was the question of what I was supposed to argue about?  I chose the very broad topic of publishingand bookselling before 1700 for my annotated bibliography and was unable to foresee a persuasive writing assignment, or I might have chosen a different topic that I could argue about.  For example, if I had print’s effect on the Protestant Reformation, I might argue that it was the deciding factor in the reformation and what enabled change.  Instead I have publishing and bookselling and a dearth of ideas.

Typography basics

In my research about typography, I've found that the most important tools used to describe and classify fonts are the physical attributes of type.

Let's learn some of these attributes through a quiz! :)

Response to Kacee's blog post ("Children's Literature, an Annotated Bibliography")

I really have been thinking recently a lot about what Kacee said in her last paragraph, about the Google Trap.

Related to the Google Trap is what I call Google Brain, in which we depend on Google (or other things that aren't our brains) for things our brains are capable of...

People of the (Group 4) world, I give you Google Brain!!! (Also known as "Google and Memory," an infographic.)

From here. Click to view larger.

We use Google as "extensions of our knowledge." The infographic gives good consequences and bad consequences. While I agree with these, I think the authors of the infographic missed an important point. By using our Google Brains, we can choose to spend our memories, our brains, on things that are more important than remembering to send an email, remembering every item on a grocery list, and remembering what 12x4 is... Spend your brain power studying for a test, practicing for an upcoming concert (shameless plug for the BYU Harp Solo and Ensemble Concert--I am playing the piece I blogged about earlier this semester!), or doing other things that you care about (and which require brain power). I don't mind leaving it to Google to remind me what I have due tomorrow and who I need to call about what.

What do you think?

Children's Literature, an Annotated Bibliography

Some of my favorite children's books.

The greatest difficulty I face in most of these units is figuring out what to write about. I like to keep my writing interesting and the best way for me to do that is to write about what interests me. Last Saturday, I was perusing the of topics we could write our annotated bibliographies about. I came across visual arts and how these were affected by printing. This led me to think about illustrations in books, which led me to thinking about picture books, which led me thinking about children's books, which led me to writing my last post on Monday. The more I have learned about the history of children's literature, the more enamored I become with it. THEREFORE I give you an annotated bibliography about children's literature, its history, criticism, and evaluation of the genre as it affects the printed word.

Typography annotated bibliography

I began this assignment with a general search on Wikipedia. I found the Typography article and looked at its sources to find some books that might be found at the HBLL. I looked up these books at lib.byu.edu and wrote down the first few characters of their call numbers.  I just recorded the general area of the call numbers so I could browse the proper section of the library.

Browsing

I found {1} and {3} browsing the library stacks.

I noticed a couple of interesting things while browsing. First, there is only a very small area dedicated to typography in the library—only about three cabinets. Additionally, I found that the topics covered in this area were broad. They included connections between typography and the following fields: graphic design, web design, print design, history, and international typeface references.

I used the bibliography in {1} to find {2}.

Finding a reference work

I found an encyclopedia {4} through the HBLL website. I found {5} in the references section of {4}.

Finding a periodical

I found a typography periodical {6} by searching “typography” at lib.byu.edu, and then selecting “Journals” under “Resource Type” in the navigation bar to the left of the search results. I found {7} via {6}. It is important to note that {6}, my periodical print reference contained no actual bibliography, footnotes, or endnotes (!). But Milton Glaser, the author of {7}, was listed as a contributor. I searched for him on the library website and found a work he authored.