Visualizing Millions of Words

In this article or post, whatever you want to call it, I found something that I needed and wanted every day, but especially today, we are all connected. This idea that words, ideas, and books are connected or making connections, having a much larger conversation is what literature is all about. My connection to literature is what I needed here today, because now I remember why I am here, what I want to do, and hopefully what we all want and will do as teachers and scholars.

The fact that I saw and understood this knowledge as I read it on a blog post (a relatively new medium ), was not lost on me. I am beginning to see that the value of this new medium is intriguing. I never truly considered that the study of English in this current moment is ultimately the study of five languages: English, scholar, one foreign language (minimum), teacher, and technology.

The days of “those that can do, those that can’t teach,” no longer exists.

Visualization for Humanities Scholars

This article, much “Visualizing Millions of Words” discusses the many of the same issues. However, this article talks more directly to the necessity of communal production. Communal production to me, especially in the beginning stages of my maturation as a professor, will need to include someone who is more technically savvy then I am at the moment.