This is the title of the book.

This author, here is a link to his wikipedia page.

And security? And privacy for the students? Any consideration?

Yes, this is a really important consideration. I think too much ed-tech sells itself on the fact that it helps us do what we have always done, just more efficiently.

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Who is the "we" here?

Are we taking something that was ever ours?

Very interesting question.

Does this privilege form over content, or the programmers over the tool users? Is this how we want to exclude within e-lit?

We talk about e-lit being a contested term, but so too then is even the idea of something being "literary" and also thinking about authorial intent. Should that matter? And really, these two debates intersect, in terms of self-definition, intent, academic definitions, and exclusionary practices. Does it absolutely need to be "literary" to be e-lit?

What we're talking about is a good, old-fashioned "debate" around canon formation. I know that Kathi Inman Berens has looked at how gender has intersected with the formation of community and canon around e-lit (at least I remember seeing a talk she gave about it). http://kathiiberens.com/2013/07/19/dh-2013/

Regardless, this is one of the issues I have with distant reading (as fun as it is) is the potential to de-politicize events around canon formation and the rise of a certain genre or mode.

Are we chasing something or attempting to articulate a definition of something that is always going to be obsolete (or at least incomplete) the moment we put proverbial pen to paper?

This course and these attempts, to be sure, will continue to evolve. But I appreciate the important direction towards a history and, dare I say it, a tradition. Or, knowing a lot of the people involved, a community might be more appropriate.

So maybe "field" is the wrong word. Maybe this becomes a narrative instead about a community seeking to define itself. But if that's the case, what is our role, as relative outsiders, working to enforce a definition on it?

I am wondering if adaptations or transmedia storytelling would be considered a part of e-lit. I would imagine yes, but it's not exactly explicit. What if a piece of e-lit interacts with other forms of media, text, literature, etc? Or is transmedia it's own thing?

Author's name.

Who thinks of play when they think of the classroom experience, especially in literature?

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If you are using Hypothes.is correctly, you should see this note from me, Dr. Bessette. Congratulations!

I wonder how this relates to the current critique of "grit" that is making the rounds in K-12 circles.

What does this even MEAN?