Saturday, May 7, 2011

Ch. 5 The Electronic Book

Observe: The color scheme was great. The text was big and caught my attention easily. All three boys seemed to be very comfortable speaking in front of the class. Strengths: Easy to understand and follow, included a video at the end. Weaknesses: It would have been more interesting if they included pictures of papyrus and digital databases to show the visual difference between text back then and today.

Infer: Their main point seems to be telling the history of books and libraries. It seems as though they are not arguing for or against the e-book. They relate some books (encyclopedias) to hypertext.

Questions: 1. Do you agree that the encyclopedia is similar to hypertext?  2. Do you prefer checking an encyclopedia or going to a library?  3. If someone could not afford access to a digital library when Xandu was invented, how would they have gotten information online? Could they?   4. Personally, do you prefer e-books or printed books?   5. Why didn't you include todays libraries? The prezi skips from papyrus to digital.   6. Why did you chose to show the nook over other e-readers?

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