Comments on: what should I read while offline?

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:32:53 +0000

And if you want something hot off the presses, this looks like it could be interesting – http://remixtheory.net/?p=353

By: Chris Lott

Chris Lott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:07:16 +0000

Actually, I’d recommend the David Foster Wallace collection that includes the essay Brian points to: _A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again_

Add: a collection of Chekhov’s short stories, a couple of Nero Wolfe mysteries, and a big fat fun novel by someone like Michael Chabon and you should be good to go!

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:13:10 +0000

Thanks, Paul and Brian! I’ve grabbed those.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:17:28 +0000

I was going to suggest the Downes post Scott mentioned… and all the other picks so far are great.

I don’t know about you, but the Reverend Jim is so prolific that sometimes I miss the nuances of what he is writing about. Might be worth archiving some of his longer posts… I know I’ve been missing stuff.

I’ve been periodically reading the Stanza version of Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother” – so it requires another app, but it’s been an intersting read. It is theoretically geared to teens, so perfect for me.

Political stuff, there is lots of fantastic reading in Tomdispatch, http://www.tomdispatch.com/ And anything by Mike Davis, there or elsewhere.

And if you are going on a cruise ship, you MUST read David Foster Wallace’s take…

http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf

By: Paul Joseph

Paul Joseph — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:24:29 +0000

Have you read this one? Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation pj

By: dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:01:25 +0000

thanks, scott! I’m grabbing copies of all of them (already had a couple, but am completing the list )

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:42:50 +0000

Great question/idea – crowdsourcing your offline reading list. Here are some longer pieces I’m either working through, ones stuck in open browser windows, classics I’d recommend or ones recently read and enjoyed:

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/future-of-online-learning-ten-years-on_16.html
http://elearnspace.org/Articles/systemic_impact.htm
http://blog.ulisesmejias.com/2007/05/04/networked-proximity-full-pdf/
http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=635
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/655 and it’s response at http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2008/11/engagement-and-personalized-learning.html

Have a great break, lucky guy!