Tuesday 2 June 2009

INTRODUCING THE BOOK

Watch the following video:



  • What do you think this comedic portrayal of a mediaval help desk means?
  • What do you associate it with?

6 comments:

  1. I think it tries to represent the time where books had just appeared, when no one knew how were they used. Nowadays it seems very funny, but in that time I think it was difficult for people to get used to reading and managing with books, because they had changed the world. I associate it with today's old men and women who don't know how to use a computer or a keybord. In a couple of years that will sound funny, too.
    MARIANA S.

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  2. I think that, as Mariana said, it just tries to represent people that don't know how to use the newest technology, and the helpdesk is like a computer support, trying to "teach" how to read a book, instead of teaching how to use a computer.

    Matias

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  3. I was thinking, that the man can`t read, so the theacher, ssit down near for teach him, how he can do, for read that book.


    Tatiana.

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  4. I think that this video shows something that today seems very simple. This video teaches us that at the biginning nothing was as simple as today. Obviously, that if now appears anything else different to the objets that we are used to, it will take time or days to us to get used to using it.
    I associate it with the fax. Actually, I didn't exist when it had just appeared, but I knew people that when it came out, it took many time to know how to used, and to work with it.

    NOELIA

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  5. We think that the intention of the comedy is show the way to read books at that time. Nowadays we haven't got this problems because we've computers or ipods, but we always have to adapt to the new techonology and learn how to use it.

    MARIANA.A Y MACARENA

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  6. I think that never went to the school and it is the first time that he sees a book..

    Fede

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