--- Forwarded Message from "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Subject: one media revolution meets another >Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:00:45 -0500 >Thread-Topic: one media revolution meets another >Thread-Index: AcnvXGRbsIXkkZnUSnm76WtACUQrCQ== >From: "Bob Peckham" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> Since all of us work inside of one media revolution, that of digital communication, we sometimes fail to have a contextual appreciation of what it is. As I am preparing an article on digital media's foundational role in literacy today and the necessity of its use in FL education, given our changing mission, I have been looking at another media revolution. This one, like our own, was rather fast in its growth, morally and politically controversial, motored by venture capital and entrepreneurial zeal. What else could it be but the print revolution and incunabula. Accordingly, I have created a section of the Andy Holt Virtual Library INCUNABULA (15th-Century Printed Book) http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/incunabula.shtml whose home page is home page devoted to the history, features, materials and procedures early printing, the second page brings you the most extensive set of online lists and catalogs of incunabula anywhere in the world, and the third allows you to see hundreds of thousands of pages from these books and read several thousand from cover to cover on line. TBob Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D Professor of French Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238 Email: [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************