MyDante and Ellipsis PPT
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The document discusses the virtual reading community platform MyDante and its role in engaging students in different levels of understanding Dante's Divine Comedy. It describes three levels of engaging with the text: the literal narrative level, the metaphoric level communicated through Dante's artistic choices, and the reflective level contained in personal responses and dialogue between the poet and reader. It provides positive feedback from students who used MyDante, noting how it added value and time to their class by allowing private reflective journaling and multimedia projects that helped them relate the text to their own lives in a holistic learning experience.
MyDante and Ellipsis PPT
- 1. Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale Firenze, 16 December 2009 “ MyDante and Ellipsis: Defining the user’s role in a virtual reading community” Frank Ambrosio Associate Professor, Philosophy Eddie Maloney Assistant Professor, English; Director of R & D, CNDLS Theresa Schlafly Writer & Editor, CNDLS Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship, Georgetown University
- 2. MyDante
- 5. 3 LEVELS First, the literal, narrative level of the story of Dante the Pilgrim's journey from the Dark Wood to the Final Vision. Second, the ironic and metaphoric level communicated by the artistic choices Dante the Poet makes regarding characters, episodes, images, and themes. Third, the reflective level, contained in the reader's personal responses to the poet's testimony, in the form of a dialogue between poet and reader.
- 12. “ Using MyDante was a holistic learning experience. It added a different dimension to the class that there was so much you could experience outside of it. It was like having twice as much class time.” - Lauren Funk, student
- 13. “ The journals are a private space in which to think about what we discuss in class and what we read by Dante and relate it to our own lives.” “ Ulysses and the Sin of Deception” “ Judgment and the Ego” “ Who is Satan?” “ How Do We Tackle Sexuality in Light of Today’s Discussion?” “ Some thoughts on Sartre’s No Exit and the infinitude of hell” “ Do I Need a Beatrice to Love?”
- 14. “… I worry sometimes that I might be making a mistake similar to Dante in line 77 by trying to fit all reality into a particular worldview; either out of ignorance or timidity.” “ Reading Canto XXX and Canto XXXI I imagined myself like Dante, hiding his shame with beard pointed dejectedly towards the ground…”
- 15. Multimedia Project “ This process definitely helped me reflect on the meaning of the poem in my own life, as the images I chose provided a visual bridge between Dante and myself.”
- 16. “ Due to MyDante, the course become far more than a philosophy course. It became an interactive journal, a colloquium, a journey, and a cross-disciplinary synthesis of scholarship…. My experience with MyDante is invaluable in continuing to interpret the poem’s meaning and in forming strategies for evaluating other texts.” – Rob Begin, student
- 20. THANK YOU! GRAZIE! GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY dante.georgetown.edu