Final: So long, Farewell

Knowledge institutions build upon each other. Each plays a different role in molding the human experience. You need them all to gain the ultimate human experience. Yet despite the necessity of every type of knowledge institution, the tradition with the most powerful effect on human emotion is oral knowledge.

Final: Essay Based on the Salon

Printed knowledge has been very important in history in relation to religion. The Reformation is a great example of how printed knowledge impacted many people. This being true, I argue that oral and written knowledge has had a bigger impact than that of printed words.  Oral knowledge has a power over people when delivered right. A Great speaker can move many people to action. Written knowledge solidifies what oral knowledge can’t. An idea can be preserved through writing.

Final Exam Post: All I've learned

Looking back at history we clearly see and trace how different formats for the transfer of knowledge, folk, oral, written, and printed, have each contributed to the basis of knowledge available to many today. Despite all of the knowledge that has reached the modern world, many other pieces of knowledge did not make it due to censorship in each time and unique to each medium used to preserve knowledge. Whether on purpose or not each form of knowledge has inherent cracks that can allow even the most valued knowledge to slip through, our problem is to find them and stop them before we lose more. 

Final Notes: Kimberly

Here are some of my ideas for the final. I am curious to see the themes that everyone else found!

Notes for Final: Erin

These are my notes for the final event/exam we are having tomorrow. I'm not sure if they are supposed to be in a table format like Emily's, but I just can't think that way. For these notes I first went through all of my posts, and tried to categorize them by focus area and then unit. My main focus for this class was to try and bring some relevance through self directed learning, so that's where most of my posts went. I then took a larger look at our blog in general. Here they are!

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