Choose a book that you have read recently--one that's fresh in your mind and that was especially interesting to you. For example, maybe you've just read Into the Wild and loved it. The book itself, or the key ideas in it, would become the heart of this edge's No Tech, Lo Tech, and Mo Tech projects.
Re-experience your book or its ideas through by reading differently:
- Explore the "Experience Reading Differently" capsule. Use it to inspire your approach to the steps that follow.
- Choose three emerging forms of media that are text- or book-based (blogs, wikis, vodcasts, podcasts, digital libraries, knowledge community sites, book searches).
- Re-experience your book or its topic through the media forms you chose.
For example, you could:
"re-read" the book as an audiobook,
read a blog about the book,
find out what books were also bought by people who loved yours,
join a book club about your book,
watch someone's DIY video about your book.
- Tell the story (in 500 words) of how re-experiencing your book or its topic in these media-based ways changes HOW you know your book and WHAT you know about it.
- Complete the no tech project above.
- Explore the Sharing Differently experience capsule. Use it to inspire the steps that follow.
- Choose a DIY knowledge community (a social networking website focused on an issue or interest, your own blog, Amazon’s reading club). Use it to share with others the 500-word story you wrote for your no tech project.
- Now, tell a new story (500 words). What happened to HOW you know your book and WHAT you know about it as a result of sharing your no tech project with a DIY knowledge community?
- Complete the No Tech project above.
- Now, take your new senses of your book or topic out into the world (a city street, a park, a public space).
- Re-experience some aspect of your book or topic by "assembling your senses with media" (audio recorder, video camera, digital camera, your computer's built-in camera, your cell phone).
"Move with" the media you choose, but not to document, illustrate, or attempt to "know" or "understand" your book or topic.
- Instead, use your media to create an image or sound sensation that makes your experiences "sense-able" to others.
- Write 500 words about what happens to HOW you know your topic and WHAT you know about it when you use media to sense it differently.
