An awful lot of folks are finding Michael Wesch’s The Machine is Us/ing Us to be a fascinating look at Web 2.0 and digital text. On the NWP‘s Tech Liaison listserv, Tonya Witherspoon suggested that it might be interesting for teachers and students to look at a transcript of the text without the accompanying visuals from the video. She kindly prepared the document, and Dr. Wesch approved sharing it. Here’s a link to the transcript. I’d love to know if/how you use it with students.
Using Us/ing
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