1. What is Reading in a Participatory Culture? Being conservative in content, we can be radical in approach

2. What is Reading in a Participatory Culture? New Media affords new practices How would Jay Gatsby speak? What if Jay Gatsby hadnt taken the blame for Myrtles death, how would the others act? What would each of them write in 140 characters over a couple of days of storytelling, especially if this story were of todays American Dream instead of the 1920s? 3. What is Reading in a Participatory Culture? Nature of Expertise has changed 4. What is Reading in a Participatory Culture? Media production model 4 Cs of Participatory Design explored through Narrative Create artifacts for self-expression and as objects to learn with. Connect with other learners of shared interests to affiliate with a domain. Circulate content to engender shared knowledge networks. Collaborate on design activities to foster co- configured expertise 5. In developing a new eBook Im Exploring What a sense of place means in a hybrid society 6. What a sense of place means in a hybrid society 7. What a sense of place means in a hybrid society 8. What a sense of place means in a hybrid society Route 66 as a journey of the we narrative 9. The relationship between Route 66 and Grapes of Wrath 10. 11 Route 66 as a journey of the we narrative 11. Route 66 as a journey of the we narrative 12. All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the peoplespeaking outin prose, or painting or poetry or music; speaking outin homes and halls, streets and farms, courts and cafeslet that voice speak and the stillness you hear will be the gratitude of mankind. (Robert F. Kennedy, Address, 10th Anniversary Convocation Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City, January 22, 1963)