Tablet-base “reading”
Posted on October 15, 2011 in Uncategorized by Eric Lease Morgan
A number of us got together today, and we had nice time doing show & tell as well as discussing “tablet-based ‘reading'”. We included:
- Carole Pilkinton
- Charles Vardeman
- Elliott Visconsi
- Eric Lease Morgan
- Jean McManus
- Laura Fuderer
- Markus Krusche
- Sean O’Brien
Elliot demonstrated iPad Shakespeare while Charles and Markus filled in the gaps when it came to the technology. Sean and I did the same thing when it came to the Catholic Youth Literature Project. Some points during the discussion included but were not limited to:
- the two projects complement each other in their approaches
- the availability of usable texts make such projects difficult
- evaluating the effectiveness of these tools is challenging
- such applications require significant resources to create
- these types of application demonstrate a large degree of potential
Fun in academia and the digital humanities.
