Friday, March 27, 2009

Its nice to finally be back on a subject that doesn't involve me getting frustrated with the program (lexia). Idhe is a little easier to get your hands around. My main thought on his classifications between hermeneutic and embodiment is that almost everything I can come up with can be in both categories. I understand how to classify them, but it seems that some technology can even transition from one to the other as you use it. Take the cane for the blind man. While we said it was an embodiment example, I'd challenge it to say it started off as hermeneutic. He had to adapt to the cane at first before it became part of hime, so to speak. Somewhere along the line it became less of an object and more an extension of the arm. Any other items you can think of that fit under both categories, or transitioned from one to the other as they were used?

Friday, March 6, 2009

Perplexed?

Is anyone else thinking that Lexia to Perplexia is completely useless? I sure am. I've clicked around on that site for a while and still don't see any usefulness to it. I hate to say it, but I think that the creator wasted his time. Seriously, what benefit does it give anyone? Even if I wanted to read all the text/writing on the site I couldn't. Most of the time the words are obscured by other images or being overlapped by other words from different columns. I don't know, this is just my opinion. Just to be safe though, no more perplexing by lexia for me...