Monday, December 12, 2011

Notes for the Final: Emily



Unit 1: Folk Knowledge
Unit 2: Oral Knowledge
Unit 3: Written Knowledge
Unit 4: Printed Knowledge
Self- Directed Learning
~  Taught/learned a skill
~  Research types of folk knowledge (singing, cooking, medicine, beauty)
~  Etiquette
~ Akkadia:
~ Hymns/songs
~ Myths (water theme, flood and Moses stories)
~ Origins
~ Songs brought together conquered countries by combining deity
~  Akkadian Cuneiform
~  Propaganda (cylinders)
~  Mainly religious and business
~  Adopted and modified Sumerian writing. Sumerian writing and language became obsolete
~  Sufism
~  How printed knowledge affected the Reformation
~  Propaganda
~  Books and witch burning
~  Annotated Bibliography
~  Using the library system
~  Woodcuts
Other’s Blogging
~  Braiding
~  Learning to drive stick (Erin)
~  School ground knowledge (Kim)
~  Harp
~  Manicures, beauty (Madi)
~  Myths
~  Origin stories
~  Songs
~  How languages died out (Kim)
~  Kim: Samaria
~  Erin: Navajo
~  Madi: Rome
~  Cartography
~  Codex
~  Egyptian hieroglyphics
~  Paper making
~  Typography
~  Censorship
~  Print and Religion
~  Book Binding
~  Standardization

Collaborative Learning
~  Class discussion Bryn Mawr commencement address
~  Oral group test
~  Group video
~  King Benjamin Speech
~  Group projects about writing and translating
~  I learned that if a language didn’t have a written language, it soon died out
~  Group editing of papers
~  Class discussion: Walter Ong
Projects/ Activities
Teaching/ learning a “folk” skill
~  King Benjamin Speech, group practice of speech and performance
~  Rosetta stone Project
~  Library Speaker about writings in books/ scrolls/ on papyrus
~  Written paper
~  Library Speaker about codex’s


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