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Sunday, April 5, 2020

Greetings, Fans of Digital Culture!

I'm Doc McGrail. It's Sunday night, just before Spring term begins.

I'm very excited about teaching this course again. I have designed it specifically for community college students because you bring such diversity of experience into the classroom. My goal is to make this course engaging and accessible. You do need to have basic computer skills such as following directions online for setting up accounts and navigating a site such as Blogger and Google Docs. The rest of the course builds on these skills using different kinds of platforms and methods for working with literary and cultural texts.

One feature of digital culture is the way that history can feel flattened out because everything from the past seems available now.

Here's an example of something that I found in my travels through the digi-verse: most of you probably don't remember Jell-O in veggies, but it was a part of my growing-up years. I'm shocked to find out that there was an actual week assigned to putting vegetables in Jell-O. I believe any flaws in my own cooking could be related to this week:


I'm looking forward to meeting you all online this week: I look forward to seeing you develop your blogs, collaboratively annotate Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and I look forward to seeing what kinds of objects you curate in your blog to provide an interpretive collection for the novel.





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