Textual Technology ePortfolio
One activity I tried in class for the first time was transcribing medieval handwriting. First we learned about different kinds of scripts, and then we tried to apply our knowledge of those scripts into deciphering snippets of texts from manuscripts. …
Throughout the first few weeks of class we focused a lot on the material history of books and written works; this involved some DIY text production exercises. These exercises covered many different text production skills. We made feather quills. We …
I chose to focus my first experiment in descriptive bibliography on a magazine called No Fidelity published each term by a Carleton student organization associated with the campus radio station KRLX. In particular, I examined an issue of No Fidelity …
For my experiment in creating a hypertext story, I wanted to play with the idea that the person engaging with this interactive story (reading it and making decisions) plays a role as the story’s writer, too. In an interactive fairytale …
