Recently, Ryan Trauman (@trauman) provided an introductory overview of some tools that may be of interest to instructors looking to incorporate new media into their research and teaching.
For the most part, I think this is a solid introduction to significant questions that need to be addressed by scholars engaging themselves in new media work. However, there was one section of his text that I felt was off the mark. I include it here:
It’s one thing to capture some excellent material with which you’re going to work, but you’re going to have to put it together with other elements in order to make it a text. That’s where the software comes in. If you’re an Apple person, and you want to stick with those products because of the integration, power, and simplicity, that’s fine. Do your thing. The iLife suite should be enough to help you produce pretty much anything you’d like to produce. Ho