English 2 Week 4: Research Workshop

1. Workshop: Refining Topics

2. Discussion: Human Subjects Research

3. Discussion: using your new project accounts.

4. Discussion: hypertext design

read for homework:

Ziming Liu, "Reading Behavior in the Digital Environment"
Kathy Nguyen Dang, Navigation in Hypertext

Hypertext poetics and web design
The Web Style Guide

Other useful links
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
Digital Storytelling Project
More innovative digital storytelling (links thanks to H. Rheingold):
http://www.elements.fiebich.biz/ (click on examples)
http://www.storycenter.org/canada/

Academic use of the web
The Lost Museum
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Alan Liu's Voice of the Shuttle
George Landow's Hypertext Theory pages

4. Discussion: peer response

5. Exercise and discussion: Reviewing the Literature: Bibliographies, Databases, and the Library

Homework (3 parts)

1. Read Liu and Dang, and look at the hypertexts and digital storytelling strategies presented on the other useful links.

2. Complete a draft of your site (seven pages, 1200 words) and publish a 200 word description of the topic with a link to your site on the Angel discussion group before our next class. http://angel.scu.edu

3. Be sure to include a 100-word statement regarding the way your site design responds to your reading of Liu, Dang, and the other sites.

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