Johan Gutenberg, inventor of moveable type printing press (c1436), which began the print literacy revolution. Here's a site that explains Gutenberg's invention in more detail: http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/printech.html
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English 5365: Community Literacy Theory and Pedagogy |
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Summer
I 2006 Dr. Catherine Quick Office Hours for Summer I: MTWR, 1:00-2:00 pm Course Home Page: http://falcon.tamucc.edu/~cquick/eng5365home.htm |
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Great Moments in Literacy History:
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Thoth, Egyptian Scribe of the Underworld, god of the dead. Egyptian mythology credits Thoth with invention of writing. (Theuth in Plato's Phaedrus) |
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Clay Bullae with "envelope." Many scholars theorize that literacy began with accounting, the need to keep records of property. |
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Johan Gutenberg, inventor of moveable type printing press (c1436), which began the print literacy revolution. Here's a site that explains Gutenberg's invention in more detail: http://communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/printech.html |
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Cherokee Syllabary, invented by Chief Sequoyah circa 1819. (Pronounciation Key: http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/language/syllab.htm) |