Primary Sources: Weeks Five and Six

Wolf, Maryanne. Proust and the Squid; The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Harper, 2007. Chapters 3 - 7.


Understanding Media: Text and Reading

Just, M. A. ,Newman, S.D., Keller, T. Imagery in sentence comprehension: an fMRI study.
http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/reprints/Just_NeuroImage2004-vissen.pdf


Designing Media: Universal Design, Digital Text, and Reading

NIMAS, The National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
http://nimas.cast.org/index.html

Where can you find digital versions of texts? http://www.cast.org/pd/resources/masterref.html#Etext

A good article on the ways to transform text in a UDL way: http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_textrans.html

Making textbooks more accessible: http://www.cast.org/publications/ncac/ncac_accessible.html

One place to find lots of digital reading material:
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm

Poetry - both written and spoken - online http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

A visual thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp

"Live Ink" - alternative structures in a digital age http://www.clipread.com/sbir/whatis/overview.htm

"Reverse Hypertext" - another alternative
http://www.thejewsdaughter.com/

An article on the semiotics of Text and Images http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=simile/issue10/trifonasX1.html#top

Imagining the Future of the Book
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_6/lynch/

Another take on the Future of the Book: an interesting Blog Check out "the book is reading you" http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/

Yet another take on the future of reading and writing: a nice blog http://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/

How to Write on the Web
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

For fun with text: http://www.nobodyhere.com/justme/