{"id":2103,"date":"2021-01-25T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:13:05","slug":"from-cuneiform-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/2021\/01\/25\/from-cuneiform-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"From Cuneiform to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This introductory seminar on how to read a book aims to give undergraduates across humanities disciplines a grounding in the history of the book in Europe while also helping them think about the origins of their own reading, writing and notetaking practices&#8212;that is, the bundle of habits and strategies that are usually taught, if at all, under the instrumental rubric of \u201cstudy skills.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cPlatforming down,\u201d we chose cheap and readily-available tools, including books and scrap paper already in each student\u2019s possession, not just in order to adjust to the pandemic-era virtual environment but also to experiment with models of hands-on observation and making that work even at universities that lack well-resourced makerspaces or special collections libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Leah Price, Rutgers University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Price_Cuneiform-to-Twitter_syllabus.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:600px;height:800px;\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"800\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">Price_Cuneiform-to-Twitter_syllabus<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-0aa01211 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\">Download Syllabus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This introductory seminar on how to read a book aims to give undergraduates across humanities disciplines a grounding in the history of the book in Europe while also helping them think about the origins of their own reading, writing and notetaking practices&#8212;that is, the bundle of habits and strategies that are usually taught, if at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-template-classroom","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1882,1975],"tags":[1974,1976,1946,1971,1972],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classroom","category-pedagogical-tools","tag-critical-making","tag-introductory","tag-pedagogy","tag-seminar","tag-syllabus"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharpweb.org\/sharpnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}