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How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. The idea is that if you can just get students to blog, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, and aggregate, they’ll be ready for the bold new world of networked software applications– building on their existing propensity for social networking, facebooking, IMing….What these skill and tool-based courses miss is an opportunity to enrich this education with some electronic literature.

Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software) at WRT: Writer Response Theory

And here are are a few more suggestions from the comments section at Mark Marino’s Writer Response Theory:

Twitter:

1. s[p]erver[se]_: 404 poetry_ [2007]
[also in: http://www.youownmenow.net/exhibition.php]

2. [started today] New Media Scotland’s new Twitterist-in-residence [2008]
http://twitter.com/mediascot

3. _Poetic Game Interventions [V.1]_ entitled _Twittermixed Litterature [2007]
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/elit/elit_software.html#mez
http://groups.google.com/group/leanmp/browse_thread/thread/a0fd5a15177c964d

Blogging:

1. cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][
http://netwurker.livejournal.com/ [since 2003]

2. ______dis[ap]posable_
http://disapposable.blogspot.com/ [2007]

Facebook:

1. _Tag Platform Poetry_ [2007]
[A Poetic/Social Network/ MMO/Visual Mashup where character screenshots of
of World of Warcraft Characters are imported into the Facebook. The photos in the respective albums are then tagged with poetic descriptions in the areas normally reserved for traditional photo labelling. These description lines are then aggregated at the bottom of each album to create a type of cross-plaform tagged poetry.]

Logos:

Antisocial Notworking: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/index.php

Dear Harried Ones… In a wonderful bit of synchronicity, Mike Sobiech is defending his graduate thesis (this Saturday!) on the use of satire in the composition classroom the very same week that a group of his industriously impish students created a mock-wikipedia site about their beloved teacher. See the link below. May we always remember how fun teaching can be!

Dale,

Oh my word, I just got done with my first class. Today is the day they’re presenting their group parodies of academic writing. So, more than once I’ve hectored that they shouldn’t use wikipedia for academic sources–of course, I love W, use it, and even hypocritically send them links. Anyways, one group parodied the anti-wikipediacity by doing a wikipedia page for our class, in particular their teacher.Here’s a link. You’re supposed to hit on the links to get some more jokes. Pretty stinking clever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeOnWiki/Sandbox

Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation — Chapter 1

Moby Dick annotated in a very accessible way.  Incredibly useful full-text search, extra resources for students, wallpaper, and lots of extras.