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This website is part of the Open Education 2007 conference paper by Jim Groom and D’Arcy Norman. This site will be a class-generated anthology of works from the early Americas, documenting (ranging from the sixteenth century through the eighteenth century). A companion site (OpenContentDIY) is also available as an additional resource, which will closely document the recipe and strategies used to create this Anthology of the Literature of the Early Americas.

More about the course:

This course will concentrate on reading, analyzing, and contextualizing texts that focus specifically on the questions of transnational identities and colonization. The online resource will not only provide a space for the texts to be made available for the students, but ultimately a semester-long, collaborative project wherein the course will be using this website to provide a dynamic resource on this particular topic by doing the following: providing analytical introductions to each of the readings; building an annotated version of the text that links to additional online resources; creating a bibliography of articles and books for each of these works that reflect contemporary scholarship on the topic.

In effect, this class will be using a WordPress.com site for presenting a course-generated anthology of works for featuring texts and particular ways of reading them. In addition, each of the selected texts will be accompanied by a series of links to other resources for a specific text that will allow for further research on a particular author, work, or series of concepts.