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Dr. Terrell Neuage neuaget@albanyacademyforgirls.org
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Course Description: This is an introductory course on experimental computer writing using hypertext, digital storytelling, Online WebPoetry as well as critique hypertextual literature already produced. We use the hypertext writing environment, Storyspace from Eastgate.
Grading:
50 % Five "hypertextual projects" (we have the CDs on the PCs at AAG. Because we have a site license for only ten of each "project" [we can not call them stories or fiction at this point - by the end of the course we will create a better term for them] everyone will not be working with each one at the same time. You will have two class periods for each "project" [we may change this to more or less time once we are involved] to read - maneuver through the landscapes of the "project" then one class period to write up your reflections on it. I will provide guidelines for this. This will be uploaded to our blog. There will be two entries for each "project". One of your original reflections and one responding to what someone else in our course has written about a "project". Each "project" is worth ten-points; five for your critiquing and five for your response to what someone else has written on a "project".
25 % You will do one project for a grade, which must be done on StorySpace. I will provide the guidelines for this.
Our sources are:
Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 (see History ).
HyperMedia is a term used for hypertext which is not constrained to be text: it can include graphics, video and sound , for example. Apparently Ted Nelson was the first to use this term too.
Hypertext and HyperMedia are concepts, not products.
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