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Project 1: Annotation
of a Text
On a Web page, create an electronic version of a single, linear text
that would benefit from linked annotations to supplemental words, images,
maps, etc. on other Web pages
Criteria
Focus and Purpose
- Choose a print text that needs annotation, either to be understood
fully or to be read in the way you want an audience to understand it
(satirically, analytically, historically, etc.).
- Create useful annotations that fully accomplish your purpose above
- Use the annotations to realize cumulatively a coherent purpose and
focus
- Produce text/hypertext hybrid: that is, a central page (an
electronic simulation of a traditional text) with hypertext links
to pages or windows that supplement and comment upon words
and passages of that page
Technical Issues
- Produce a fully functioning project using Photoshop and Dreamweaver
- Successfully create and maintain links that work
- Prepared and optimize images for the Web which function online
Visualization and Writing
- Design this electronic text/hypertext so readers don't "lose"
the main page (mistaking this annotated text for a conventional Web
site) or unexpectedly find themselves off site altogether
- Provide visual keys on the main page to indicate where annotations
are available without interfering excessively with the integrity and
readabiity of the original. You might consider altenatives to the blue,
underlined link format
- Create pages that are visually engaging and unified by visual motifs
(a consistent color scheme, a repeated vocubulary of images, a coherent
style of visual presentation, etc.)
Process
- post the URL to the appropriate Webx discussion
- provide a URL functioning and correct
- annotate a printout with numbers keyed to numbered comments typed
on a separate sheet
- thoughtfulness and scope of comments
Samples
Here are some sample, Web-based texts with hypertext annotations. Some
of them are pretty rough! How well do you think each of them realizes
the goals above? How do the design and content of these annotated texts
suggest varied purposes and uses?
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