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. 

A Paper on Censorship (part 3)

This is it! The final draft of my little paper on censorship! Thanks for all of your help and hindrance along the way! As the semester draws to a close most of the authors will begin fading out of writing as our self-directed learning shifts in different directions. Hopefully we'll all help you to continue to follow us on our adventures on the web.

A Paper on Censorship (part 2)

As the due date looms nearer I have posted my very first rough draft of my paper on a Google doc here. I have also ventured to post some of my notes from the reading/research I have done with this paper here.

How to Help:

1. Look for errors! (I am not the worlds best speller!)
2. Find ways to expand/clarify my arguments.
3. Find ways to expand/clarify the opposition.
4. Think of how I can include a learning outcome.
5. Add general comments either here or on the docs on how I can improve.

Thanks People of the Internet!

A Paper on Censorship (part 1)

Yesterday our instructors announced a paper as our final unit project for this unit.  Madison did a good job of capturing nearly everyone's reactions in the beginning of her post yesterday. So now that it has settled in that I am actually going to be writing a formal paper for this class, I asked myself, "Self what are you going to write about in this paper?". Myself then answered, "Something about censorship". And that's about as far as I've gotten. Now I need your help!


People of the internet I am asking for ideas/sides to argue in a paper themed on censorship. There is the obvious how much should we allow censorship/freedom of speech topic, but I am looking for something that has more to do with what I've already researched. (The books I've read in research can be found in my bibliography.) Probably it will focus more on how effective censorship was in the early days of printing, focused  in England. Look for updates and send thoughts my way!


Thanks!
Erin


P.S. This paper is also supposed to address one of the learning outcomes for this course.  And I'm thinking it will be number 3: COMMUNICATING KNOWLEDGE
Students recognize differences in the forms through which knowledge is preserved, communicated, and experienced and can interpret the consequences of these differences historically and personally.

(updated 2/12/11 11:30am with learning outcome)

More on Censorship

After posting my annotated bibliography on my initial research into censorship I kept thinking about part of the story I didn't share. So in a spare moment today I looked further into the idea and this is what I found. (yes these are all online resources, but that's what you get for asking a child of the digital age!)

The Story (Part 2):

So as I was researching and flipping through books about censorship I kept thinking about a book that I had read in the 9th grade, which I was told had a central theme of censorship, Fahrenheit 451. To be sure I had the right book I checked in out on Wikipedia, where I found this:

Annotated Bibliography: English Censorship (before 1700)

This is one of my least favorite kinds of posts. I call this type "the assignment" post. Unique to a course based blog, this type of post is generally lacking flavor, swag, personality, d all of the above. However, despite my personal feelings about this post I am going to do it anyways for my grade and because someone out there might appreciate it. So here goes nothing. For more information on the assignment itself check here. Basically what follows is an annotated bibliography on the topic of censorship before 1700. The tale of how I found all of these books can be found at the bottom of the post, if you're here for entertainment value, or to grade, start there. The links lead to the GoodReads page for each book. (Which can also be a good starting place for research!)