Notes on the semester

Ok So I thought I would get this going so we can have some ideas start flowing. I have this same table as  a google doc so you can add or subtract from it.



I just wanted to mention that one thing that impressed me in this meta analysis was that as the mode of communication we were studying changed our comments and interaction changed. Most notably by the end when we were working on print it turned very solitary. There were very few comments on other's posts and the kind of comments were more sophisticated like we knew that it was in print and therefore had to be intelligent. I will expand more on this later.
Also, it was interesting to me that there seemed to be a different leader in each unit. It was like someone was more inclined via natural ability or interest to take the lead. This would make an interesting study on group dynamics.
I will add more to this later either in the post or in the comments, I just really wanted to get this up as a resource so that we could all start making some headway.

Unit	Alicia	Lauren	Will	Mike	Misa	Morgan	general theme
folk	etiquette	food	Mayan dating	Aztec medicine		Marriage customs	It is super important to have people's input otherwise we cannot learn useful skills even if we have explicit written directions.
	taught how to make fondant	cairns	link in comment	recovering deleted posts	Music	measurement systems
	learned facial	taught rock climbing	rites of passage and missions	learned to make tomatillos salsa	learned ballet	learned fencing
	knapping	learned breakdancing	male makeup	Aztec death music	calendar
			taught glow stick dancing		taught manicures
			Egyptian magic	taught kite boarding/knitting
activity	learning teaching and interview
oral	ancient Khmer and modern Khmer depending on oral tradition	writing gambling rules	Mayan language not written	Hopi religion	lacrosse rules	Talmud transition from oral to written	Frustration that it can be lost so easily! Also concerns about exclusivity of knowledge, occult
	ritual and Hindu myth	organizing group project		Hopi clans traveled and left their mark across Americas	Mycenaeans and the odessy	Phoenicia and trade
	choral recitation at football games	Etruscans lack of literature	posting group video		Mycenaeans and class system's effect on knowledge	Most Phoenician oral tradition has been lost
	brief history of Khmer	LSAT	Mayan language is being lost because just oral	different world view of the Hope
	Interview	Etruscan education	Performance as part of Mayan historical education			Children's stories
						Interview
Activity	Interview and King Benjamin's speech
written	Khmer written language	Etruscan writing	aesthetic of Mayan writing	Hopi never developed written language	Linear B script	Syllabus as a contract	Increased aesthetic of the new medium. A loss of connection to other people but an increase in knowledge
	Calligraphy from different cultures	Etruscan Institutions knowledge and religious		cultures writing on metal	Art preserves important philosophical ideas	Phoenician origin of our alphabet
	Choose a medium to match the document. China	&	Mayan architecture preserving ideas	review of speech activity	Invention of Printing	How we got our alphabet and numerals
	calligraphy party	cursive writing	Facsimile in Abraham	calligraphy	encryption	significance of writing vs. electronic or verbal communication
	Arabic script in pictures of Virgin Mary		Facsimile continued	writing implements	making the artifact Greek	writing in the margin of books
	Buddhist mysticism and mummies		making the artifact Mayan	result of calligraphy party	printing vs. digital in spread of ideas
	making the artifact Chinese		King James exhibit in library	occult in Hebrew magic		Folios in production of codices
	Chinese printing of money			printing led to legibility		translating artifact Cuneiform
	translating the artifact Latin			making artifact Mayan
	King James exhibit in Library			translation of artifact Mayan
Activity	Rosetta stone Project
print	Bibliography Spelling	Crandall print museum	Bibliography Typography	Crandall print museum	King James Bible exhibit		Isolation. Rapid growth of knowledge but lack of human connection
	pictures for previous posts	Bibliography Censorship	Fonts in Renaissance	Bibliography medical advances and print	Bibliography print and spread of knowledge	Bibliography Dictionary
	Thesis Spelling	paper complications	Thesis typography	Printing anatomy	Thesis print distribution	Writing process Rhyme
	Paper draft spelling	paper draft censorship		Thesis Anatomy and medicine	Paper draft distribution
	Writing process spelling			Paper draft Anatomy and medicine