Digital Citizens Unite!

So if you've been following my blog for the last four months I've been trying to connect past history to today's digital world. I've been doing this for my Digital Civilization class, a class at BYU that fulfills a general education requirement. It has been a pretty cool experience.

Half way through the semester we decided (well the teachers decided and we had to do it) to write a ebook that combines a bunch of ideas that have been developing over the semester. It was hard. We have a beta release of the book but it still needs a decent amount of work in order to be a good final draft.

We're having an event to present the ideas in the book on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7 pm MST. If you're interested you should come. It's in 251 of the Tanner building on BYU's campus. If you don't live in Utah or are too lazy to get off the couch there will be live streaming available at digiciv.byu.edu.

I am part of the Arts chapter. I wrote some stuff that I thought was interesting. I put some of the ideas in recent blog posts.

We're presenting our ideas in the form of a poem with live and digital music, live and recorded dancing, and accompanying graphics. It sounds kind of weird. It is kind of weird. But it should be pretty good and it'll only be five minutes.

Each chapter of the book gets five minutes to present their ideas and these are the groups:

• The Arts
• Business
• Education
• Government
• IP & CC
• Inquiry
• Openness
• Science
• Ebook Team

The order is yet to be determined. It should be fun and there will be refreshments afterwards.

Whether you come or not, I hope you've enjoyed reading my blog and maybe even learned something.