Justification

This final project is not, I feel, particularly interesting in and of itself when you look at the final project - much like my last mini-project. But for me what stands out is that it represents a process. What I have done is to boil down the theory covered in the ENGL 956 class in a simple, digestible format. I've rewritten every summary that currently exists on the Wiki (except my own) and tried to boil those ideas down into simplified, easy-to-digest bullet points. For the record, this is no easy task for some authors (looking at you, Derrida). The results appear on the next page and they are not complete - I think I've only made it to Benjamin thus far. This takes longer than it may appear at first glance.
What I find interesting, though, is not the end result, but the process of creating the website/Twine. I mentioned this briefly in our final class, but I feel that the power of technology lies in its interactivity. In the paraphrased words of Buddha (maybe - I've seen a multitude of attributions to the pithy quote): "To read is to forget, to be shown is to understand, but to do is to know." I feel that by listening to your lectures or by reading the responses of my fellow students I have a reasonable understanding of the theory we were to learn. However, I feel that by working on this self-imposed task of condensation, I am much better versed in the theory than I ever could be through another method. This is guiding my potential research - the notion that through doing, through using a call and response, input and output interface readily craftable through digital technology, we may somehow, in some small way, be able to create better pedagogy.
So again, while this Twine is certainly useful in its own right, I feel that the process of creating it was far more useful to my own understanding. Carry on.