Analyzing the Romanticism of current, early-twenty-first-century educational theory is one way to determine its distance from the pressures of machine-like efficiency and consequently to assess whether and how current technological innovations may enhance our teaching. Furthermore, discourses about visual literacy can be used to interrogate Wordsworth’s wish to cultivate habits of mind . . . .

Table of Contents

• I. Introduction
• Educational Theory, Web Interactivity, and Romanticism
• Laura Mandell (English, Miami University)
• II. Introduction to issues surrounding Multimedia Innovations in Pedagogy
• Visual Literacy
• Katherine Seiffert (Undergraduate Student, Miami University)
• Commentary on Visual Literacy
• Olin Bjork (Asst. Director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin)
• Adapting: Online Learning Environments, Visual Pedagogy, and Active Learners
• W. Michele Simmons (Scientific and Technical Communication, Miami University)
• III. Innovations in the Classroom
• The Romantic Audience Project: A Wiki Experiment
• Mark Phillipson (English, Bowdoin College)
• IVANHOE: Education in a New Key
• Jerome McGann (English, University of Virginia, London University)
• IVANHOE: Interpretation in a New Key with Special Reference to Byron's "Fare Thee Well"
• Jerome McGann and Johanna Drucker (Robertson Chair in and Director of Media Studies, Professor in English, University of Virginia)
• -- a Flash presentation demonstrating how IVANHOE works (code and design by Laura Mandell)
• "A Discussion about 'Walking, Poems, and Buildings': An Exhibition of Collaborative Work" (code and design by Laura Mandell)
• Ben Jacks (Architecture, Miami University)
• IV. Adding Web Interactivity to the Traditional Classroom
• Teaching a Sheep (essay on teaching) and Romanticism: The Ecological Imagination (a course)
• Walter Reed (English, Emory University)
• V. Teaching Materials
• VI. Call for Future Papers