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Created page with "__NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Texts}} <div class="cent"> <h1>Two Projects</h1> <h3><i>The Reader's Resource</i> and <i>The Visual Communicator</i></h3> <h3>by Robbie McClintock</h3> <blockquote>A proposal query to the Annenberg Founation on behalf of the Laboratory for Liberal Learning, Spring 1984</blockquote> </div><div class="nums"> <h3>Purpose for which funding is sought</h3> <p>To carry out two developmental projects proposed by the Teachers College Laboratory fo..." |
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<p>A growing number of people will conduct their intellectual lives almost exclusively in electronic environments. They will feel at ease gaining access to information and ideas through computers and related media but awkward with books, other printed media, and the traditional libraries associated with them. If the heritage of liberal learning is to be functionally accessible to such people, it will need to be transmuted so that people can part1cipate in it as effectively through the electronic media as they can through the printed. So far, the electronic media have been developed as useful means for storing and retrieving information, but they are almost entirely undeveloped as means for pursuing and developing reflective ideas and values. Until they are so developed, the heritage of liberal learning will not find a robust place in the electronic environment. The mission of the Laboratory for Liberal Learning is to develop better ways by which people who rely on electronic media can absorb and extend the humane accomplishments of our culture while working with text and images with computers.</p> | <p>A growing number of people will conduct their intellectual lives almost exclusively in electronic environments. They will feel at ease gaining access to information and ideas through computers and related media but awkward with books, other printed media, and the traditional libraries associated with them. If the heritage of liberal learning is to be functionally accessible to such people, it will need to be transmuted so that people can part1cipate in it as effectively through the electronic media as they can through the printed. So far, the electronic media have been developed as useful means for storing and retrieving information, but they are almost entirely undeveloped as means for pursuing and developing reflective ideas and values. Until they are so developed, the heritage of liberal learning will not find a robust place in the electronic environment. The mission of the Laboratory for Liberal Learning is to develop better ways by which people who rely on electronic media can absorb and extend the humane accomplishments of our culture while working with text and images with computers.</p> | ||
<p>Currently, the Laboratory seeks funding for two developmental projects:</p> | <div class="numsoff"><p>Currently, the Laboratory seeks funding for two developmental projects:</p> | ||
<ul><li><i>The Reader's Resource</i>, a program to facilitate the reflective reading of large texts on-line and electronic publication of major sources in the liberal tradition so that students may so read them, and</li> | <ul><li><i>The Reader's Resource</i>, a program to facilitate the reflective reading of large texts on-line and electronic publication of major sources in the liberal tradition so that students may so read them, and</li> | ||
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<li><i>The Visual Communicator</i>, a consolidation of visual sources of historical knowledge onto v1deodiscs and a program for retrieving selected illustrations according to the viewer's interests.</li> </ul> | <li><i>The Visual Communicator</i>, a consolidation of visual sources of historical knowledge onto v1deodiscs and a program for retrieving selected illustrations according to the viewer's interests.</li> </ul> | ||
<p>Funding sought for these projects totals $233,000 over a five year period. Work will proceed in two stages, a two year design and development stage, followed by a three year implementation stage. Funding needs for the first stage (1985-86) amount to $83,000 and those for the second (1987-1989) will be $150,000.</p> | <p>Funding sought for these projects totals $233,000 over a five year period. Work will proceed in two stages, a two year design and development stage, followed by a three year implementation stage. Funding needs for the first stage (1985-86) amount to $83,000 and those for the second (1987-1989) will be $150,000.</p></div> | ||
<h3>Description of the project</h3> | <h3>Description of the project</h3> | ||