Assignment 3.0: (distraction)

Yishay sent this really beautiful XML thing as a possibility for a starting point for the essay. Suggesting maybe we can download the source code, and use it as a starting point for a prototype of the interactive essay. when you click on the little XML button on the interface tool bar it shows the source code and I have just spent some time doing that - clicking between the interface and the source code and trying to relate them. I find that quite interesting that they kind of 'mean' the same thing at some level and yet at another they don't at all. That is a question which i guess my work over the past 7 years or so been mainly about - the differences in modes and the ways in which representation shapes knowledge and possibilities for communication and learner identity and kind of trying to work out what i think this means for learning and thinking. But back to the assignment