This page contains early plans and brainstorming for the HypertextLiteracy session.
Questions
- What aspects of hypertext literacy? links? images? what else?
- In what context? On what sites?
- In a plain text editor?
- Or on social networking sites like consumating.com, flickr.com, upcoming.org etc.?
Ideas
Note: MatthewLevine started what follows, and since he didn't go to the first session, his expectations may be way off-base. Given time and audience variances, this may be way too ambitious or way too pedestrian. Please edit accordingly.
- I think it would be excellent to start with some basic text formatting on forms that allow HTML: blog comments, flickr.com, consumating.com, etc. That serves as a very gentle, real-world intro to some of the basics.
- It also serves as a good starting point for introducing good hypertext habits from the ground up:
- thinking of elements as adding structure and semantics rather than style. Ex: <em> and <strong> vs . <i> and <b>;
- using the alt attribute for images;
- Once the fundamentals are established and everyone has some basic of vocabulary and syntax, it would be great to have everyone walk through the process of creating a website and opening it locally with their browser:
- we can post the DOCTYPE/html/head/body scaffolding and just have everyone cut/paste it with a brief explanation of all the parts (is this a good idea? need to weigh the possibility of being confusing vs. starting with good habits from the beginning)
- everyone can create a basic "Hello, world" page using a plain-text editor and start experimenting with the elements they've learned
- add in some elements like <p>, <h*> and <div> to give documents more structure
- once everyone is comfortable with editing HTML in the context of a page, there are some options:
- basic CSS styling? this might be too much to work into an HTML intro section, but could perhaps be a jumping-off point for an advanced seminar :)
- editing pre-fab pages or templates?
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