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  1. Thinking and Linking: Teaching with Hypertext Melody Anderson Brendan Holloway Alex McAdams Alex Mueller UMass Boston English Department
  2. Hypertext
  3. Revolutionary Hypertext
  4. Revolutionary Hypertext
  5. Revolutionary Hypertext
  6. Restrictive Hypertext
  7. Restrictive Hypertext
  8. Restrictive Hypertext
  9. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning”
  10. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning”
  11. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning”
  12. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning”
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Thinking and Linking: Teaching with Hypertext Melody Anderson Brendan Holloway Alex McAdams Alex Mueller UMass Boston English Department handyhand.jpg hypertext.png Hypertext 2120543_com_nelsontedh.jpg chain-of-fate.jpg Revolutionary . . . . . . or Restrictive? Revolutionary Hypertext The capability of banking education to minimize or annul the students' creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed. The oppressors use their “humanitarianism” to preserve a profitable situation. Thus they react almost instinctively against any experiment in education which stimulates the critical faculties and is not content with a partial view of reality but always seeks out the ties which link one point to another and one problem to another. ---Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 54-5. Revolutionary Hypertext The purpose of computers is human freedom, and so the purpose of hypertext is overview and understanding. ---Theodor Nelson, Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Revolutionary Hypertext There is nothing in an electronic book that quite corresponds to the printed table of contents . . . In this sense, the electronic book reflects a different natural world, in which relationships are multiple and evolving: there is no great chain of being in an electronic world-book. For that very reason, an electronic book is a better analogy for contemporary views of nature, since nature today is often not regarded as a hierarchy, but rather as a network of interdependent species and systems. ---Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 105. Restrictive Hypertext Hypertext isn't really interactive, they argue; it only gives the illusion of reader involvement and certainly only the illusion that the hierarchy of the author and reader had been leveled: clicking, they insist, is not the same as writing. ---Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, 98. Restrictive Hypertext It follows logically from the banking notion of consciousness that the educator’s role is to regulate the way the world “enters into” the students. ---Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 57. Restrictive Hypertext Contrary to Nelson’s idealistic claim [that “the purpose of computers is freedom”], the purpose of computers is power, and hypertext is as much involved in that struggle for power as anything else. ---Espen Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, 82. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning” Liberation pedagogy promotes students’ critical consciousness in order for them to make connections with new information in a way that is creative and authentic. Dialectic: the “mutual dependence of language and thought, all the ways in which a word finds a thought and a thought, a word.” It’s a name for the “conversation [we] have with [our]selves” when faced with something new. ---Ann Berthoff, Forming/Thinking/Writing, 23. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning” “…the interpretive meaning of an electronic text is embodied in the ramifying structure of its connections. In the computer we can see…that a text is never anything more than a structure of relations. By changing the relations, as we do when we make or break connections, we change the meaning of the text.” ---Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, 607. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning” A Freirean-inspired hypertext can invite students to pay attention to their inner dialogue, and to become active participants in their learning experience. Hypertext as a “Means of Making Meaning”
. ok . well I'd see the recession of Thinking and Linking Teaching with Hypertext on . and I know many of the and surround that my name is that Alex Mueller on the kitchen English Department . and I'm joined by five graduate students Melody Anderson Brendan Holloway and Alex McAdams and collective we were going to your that run the session . share with you some of of our projects ideas on lots Means of about Hypertext and then . more importantly who I have a discussion afterwards few on here some in your own questions concerns thoughts about using Hypertext and in teaching . so . I'm going to start with . he a radical introduction about of what I see these come on and get free feed . thanks for coming . I wish I was an introduction about what I see is that this takes it easy Hypertext . on the baby will we see the benefits of Hypertext and in the possible limitations of hypertext . and the or didn't you guys know that the actual projects that . the that I Melody and Brendan Alex is creative . so . we as students or read or scanty class . we also expect that they make connections to related concepts Literature Henri vents yet . students often don't make peace connections or record them and systematic way . so the scale aims to address these problems through the pedagogical use of . hyperlinks . I cannot one change my colors . interesting . I'm . so we . that's you what I was saying that I'm word . we went to this problem through the use of hyperlinks on . what we know as the ubiquitous facilitators of online networking and research . that provide immediate and sustained connections between web pages . so while the development of hyperlinks use to require a knowledge of HTML . clogs and we tease . now please come on in the shyness . blogged in weeks these are platforms that are user friendly and they make Linking acceptable . a resource for teachers and students . moreover we we believe the hype or Linking offers interesting benefits and challenges for skin Thinking and learning that and some the possibilities of face to face dialogue . the session will confront the ways in which hypertext can mediate . what Ann Berthoff a former professor at . UMass Boston calls Meaning Making with in cyberspace . if the . this year . oh thank you . . so . ok let me get into some of the theoretical . . background . so we approached the stretcher from the assumption that the name of cutting guides is to establish a learning environment in which students actively produce meaning and exercise your creative faculties as they confront the complexities of the world around them . the opposite educational posture in which students possibly consume information or receive knowledge . as infamously cry by Hello for Eri has the oppressive banking concept of education . he is Writing pedagogical deposits as cancellations of creativity . on . and he notes that in that banking education . I'm an old students' creative power . and serves the interests of oppressors who care neither have the world revealed or to see it transformed . and so does the react almost instinctively against any experiment in education . I'm which stimulates the creative got the critical faculties and is not content with a partial view of reality . but always seeks out the ties which link one point to another and one problem with another . still as teachers of Hypertext its different difficulty new word this language of on of the petty God even seeks out ties which link . on the chairs this that we see the of the possibilities of Hypertext which advocated capability to facilitate and in new mobile number of linkages between related points and problems . so Hypertext and the digital strategy that associates chunks of text image or sound with and in informally or into a restructured retrieval system has often been described as having is the revolutionary character to it . on the inventor of the term Hypertext . Theodor Nelson even said that the purpose of computers is human freedom and so the purpose of hypertext is overview and understanding . so from a prayer in perspective Nelson's overview and understanding is the access to reality but Hypertext affords by Making transparent the links to all read exist between global problems and deconstructing the leaders' claims the higher knowledge protected by oppressive regimes or institutions . in one sense this seems to be an accurate description Hypertext which offers readers choice is more tightly near itinerary through hyperlinks . equating Writing with every game and allowing connections to be made between seeing lead disparate objects . David Bolter argues that Hypertext that I would to buy ins . we called the electronic book offers a more suitable approach to the complexity of the world than the structures of the printed book is ever been able to provide . Tommy says that there's nothing in an electronic book that quite corresponds to the printed table of contents in this sense the electronic book reflects a different natural world in which relationships are multiple and evolving . there's no great chain of being an electronic world book . for that very reason an electronic book is a better analogy for contemporary views of nature since today nature today is often not regarded as a hierarchy of the rather as a network of inner prevent dependence species and systems . silver Thus they rely and printed books is our instructional material on . I we know the limitations of this because . skins often bring in different additions is little space for commentary on little opportunity for guidance . so while we and my good knowledge of these advantages of hypertext . Hypertext can also be highly limited in Restrictive . in its scope an operation . come one at digital Scala Kathleen Fitzpatrick confesses that her students . often the reason it's . the pedagogical uses of Hypertext condemning it as many appealing to . she adds that Hypertext isn't really interactive they argue . the only gives you illusion of reader involvement and certainly only the illusion that the hierarchy of the author and reader had been leveled clicking . is not the same and Linking her is into clicking is not the same as writing . insist . so from this perspective . Hypertext is an impressive form narration in which the author determines when and where the links will be . thereby limiting the number of pathways to reader make me take . when hypertext is simply read the gauge author arguably has even more control over the we are reader can approach a text in Oppressed author who cannot determine which connections to reader can make or which page is she will re . understand this way Hypertext embodies this prayer in notion . on the banking notion of consciousness in which the educator's role is to raid the late the way the world enters into the students . so if we're contents you simply create hyperlinks hacks that the students will seven is a weekly can follow . Hypertext offers little opportunity to achieve this freedom that that Nelson the Champions . sister Alice we can complete a week and I claim that we begin this hour word . I a result attention to we feel that a meal way is possible and desirable . so the projects for sharing today emerged on both from the graduate English court to try to teach called Teaching that with technology . and then for our own experiences of Teaching are thinking about teaching classes on some some of the palace here have experience teaching here UMass composition one o one . I intermediate seminar courses as well . so while we deal see that we have different approaches to Hypertext we collectively see the use of such can cure Technology view less about freedom . I've been in is about power . on as Espen Aarseth has suggested . to this Hypertext too cartoony we'll than ways it can certainly be Oppressed and in their application the weekend in Hypertext Les is text to be read in to be written . the card in the power of Linking can be applied this with my skin's powerfully with an educational environments . ok saw stop there is for the night . the radical introduction and handed over to Melody Anderson is going to share her Hypertext crunch . most customers . . . . . . . . . . the road . all I . she said I was really dealing with my not thinking about Hypertext on this approach that my students were having our expressing within the classroom . how my as our tent and I it was one of the media seminar inspectors to see it . and I had a number of students that when I expressed the desire to miss class or to try make up class . only rarely leaves and and well you really need to be in class because you can't make that happen to their DNA . much of the learning happens . as a class to get there and there's very little that stand outside class to see Hypertext . on the problem that cannot in my class Machines continuously saying how much they do enjoy attack attack when they read on their own purse is having read it and and looked into it again today and clapped . they could to the question and asking why this happened why Aarseth not eating with tax when they read them at home and why what when where to get in the country and did they find the process and is still very well with Dr not be capable of coming up with this information are coming up with these connections is simply just don't do it . so what are ways that I've approached . Hypertext is thinking about it as a potential threat Thinking teacher . so Hypertext as a way of guiding instructing on encouraging indeed increasing students to think . asking questions when that will physically having to be present to make happen . so to the shape that I one that actually take a look at the Hypertext but if they did for Alex's class . it shows the text . a current helping Brent . this for a number of reasons one I completely like this text and still short enough that I can link the whole thing often time . Hypertext is simply an accent or portion of the text . I really fell in order for students to get the full experience and for me to be on the African them to still have this functioning as the something teacher I would need the whole thing . and honestly . this can get into some copyright issues but pray now the whole story is actually posted on of the week before them . I could printed different kinds of Linking different kinds of questions on so if you notice the first link here . is this the word occurrence . doesn't each Anderson something I might point out to sea and three . I might say well what with where we're currently sentiments were and what are the meanings of the sport why is it even important that this is within the tight but I'm not present Astle question students may just clamped on by not even notice that this one really does have a separate column for this . so we could come this link which I did crisply is the first link hoping that in addition to not or could link click on all of the links have the least click on the first one . on a free two piece where I first on defined aware until perhaps the scenes that may not have a the definition nor is it good understanding of that they can link to marry Webster's definition the word . I'm back from a set of questions that will want them to respond to in their care . Sherry think about the content of this word . Colin is that what I set the story . that matched and is very disconnected all ur their connection between the idea the word currents in the events of the store . I into this . link here is . on the sign I think it's really important unwitting Hypertext especially as the attitude shared that I require the student of the of traffic to since I'm just left on their own to click random links to go different places but that they actually had something that their parent required to present that to me like it a record of their thinking . and this isn't the only . link that's present within the site so the links bring to a page for Ashton's reflect I ask them questions . other links . I may provide an explanation to share if you notice that there's a link to her a draft . I the site . I that explains the different conditions when the military on how people stand where they called in chief students . wherein find that they don't really know the rules and that becomes a distraction for them in the text right instead of Thinking Ali been living on the the they start thinking that was that need with that look like the concept and that she is a link that combines into the extra knowledge that a meanie . however things don't new Testament and supplies to the occurrence link as well . if they don't need the definition if they don't they know of three draft since then . a dollhouse to visit the flea Thinking Chris is a way of providing scaffolding for students so if you need the information to me the efficient is there . if you don't have the option not clicking . some of the fleet . I've also included quest still on the side of the their comments and their with their clicking out different details are different patterns and . well since you're going through I'm not asking them to into them right away of one of the assignments . and that's is actually for shoes to go back and insert one of these questions . on and they can hit the reply an actual a common right . they were part of the wiki . it would go back look at where the questions actually interactive file . I've had these questions haven't been reading along company to encourage them to keep Thinking writes that are not just reading mindlessly and everything a longer seeing my question email . why is that the soldiers called the kittens know why this year's include so much information about how the soldiers asking why does and even matter . why is that a pregnant teacher that needs to be with in the text . so I'm attempting to keep . I'm encouraging the strains of thought encouraging of connections as they continue to read . now in this text . erm I've also included sentiment is and I've included . comment the very bottom there is actually a discussion will the color actually be a part of . so once they completed the catch . a I've given them a quote from a piece of credit for them and then get links to . an actual alike discussion for where they can post your reply to that question . I think . my life thinking in this process is a very is not just giving scenes . on new ways to think about it not just giving students . I new ideas and questions the accidental after acquiring them to respond and sink put into writing some of those from the their thinking process and act mentions the criticism that Linking is not necessary Writing Karen trying to bring those to get like that even though you are Linking it still requiring you to do Writing and to provide that I . it's very easy . as is suggested to have Hypertext the very narrowing right obviously they're my questions . they are my interpretation there for me to something and . there is a way that could be read as this is my interpretation to get the scenes throughout one interpretation . I'm History that something and think and don't want to deal in education we want to open up possibilities rather than Narrabeen . and I've gotten this issue . I guess I requiring these of our including open response questions . so students are able to put the question and then there English and think about a responder when there is no bright ensure there is no com what is the pattern . meanwhile just important . they are just able to . into the question in their own way can really make that stand . I think this . this is my contents and walking that fine line so yes in the meaning may be a little more now and maybe a little more . I authentic in my chances at the text continues to more open and it is open to that discussion for the students they are able to make their own connections to link in multiple directions not just the directions that I'd set up . no one of her . on . Kristen over my own life here is that the two really interesting today and not only in at students to respond in writing . Akron to contribute to this as a pool of now . we are a class on all settings together all responding . all in discussion . then I was to look at Making or be able to make a place for me the unique connections that to me that I didn't and went into bed . I when I would like to require students to add only . so what's the agenda and of the text they go back and then find a link to . I'm something of in their of questioning in the end another tax something that they made excellent they made in the process of reading that now they can share back with other students to not defend Teaching and I'm responding to actually having them contribute to that pool of knowledge . we are on collaborators in the study of the text together . we are not individuals taking now . unique piece of information and keeping it to our south . no way . I think this is on and where Hypertext rim of the process of thinking by one thing seems to make the connections on and hold them responsible for adding what I like to call their thinks to this principle . . Anderson's us into Brendan . . . . . Brendan will grow soon . one o one is in turn . I'm going to discuss a little bit of both the possibilities Hypertext as a Means of Making Meaning . . will go Liberation pedagogy such as prayer of presents in the the pedagogy of the Oppressed is too close students' critical consciousness in order for me to make connections with new information in a way that is creative and authentic . that requires educator's to value into the weekend . no I didn't individualistic and which ultimately for what argue is an active human disease . to Kim and I students is a black is to allow them to be at the center of their learning experience and not the object of the learning experience . good remedy to banking knowledge is to invite students to enter dialogue with new information . Dialectic and even allows students to talk to them so street course material in a way to make sense to them . which fosters deep interpretive . . . . . Dialectic is it Berthoff explained . determining the mutual dependence of language and thought all the ways in which a word finds of thought and a frog award . it's a name for the conversation we have with their selves when faced with something new . this conversation allows us to uncover way she ships between the something new and what we know the world . this Berthoff argues is how we make sense of the world . we make sense of things with respect to in terms of in relation to something else . in order for students to think in a creative often taken critical way . they need to have this conversation . it places them in a position to navigate text within a total context rather than a theoretical context because they conform or reading to relieve themselves in the world in with the world . first it's the resulting interpretations tend to be increasingly critical Thus constantly less alienated . allowing students to enter dialogue with coarse material promotes the type of thinking the first authentic relationships . active in conscience comprehension . hyperlinks is Alex of Making earlier provide immediate and sustained connections between twenty two . the hyperlink is what group request calls an entry point into a digital document . documents a few entry points . we read from the west to the right from the top to bottom of the page . we formerly she shoots between paragraphs titles and other headaches . hyperlinks like paragraphs . relationships into one chunk of text in another . the web page we find at the office in the end of the hyperlink is connected with related to enter progeny . others think or webpage . she didn't Bolter argues the interpretive meaning of an electronic text is embodied in the rim of the ramifying structure of its connections . in the computer we can see the text is never anything more than a structure over illusion . By changing relationships as we do we make or break connections we change the meaning of attacks . because of the way we see relationships between a hyperlink in the two with peace the Connex . here is our Petunia to help students took relationships in a way that promotes Dialectic engagement . . our prayer and for in inspired hypertext can invite students to pay attention to their inner dialogue and to become active participants in their learning experience . . . they ways because of the relationship established routine to webpages . I believe acts as what I a Richards will call speculative instruments . when Charles Sanders coursework all represented . however link becomes a point a proposition . and to interpret into which he considered new text found by falling back labor way . there is potential for the language of a hyper link itself to build bridges between Currumbin in on common language found with in college to overreact . very simple Hypertext redeveloped for and this one oh one court hearing UMass Boston which is a transcription of chapter two the banking concept of education . Apollo freeze pedagogy of the Oppressed tasted into a high police formally Teaching speaking to webpages Writing current students to use link as expected of him . as a toll for dialogue . . . bring on my . Hypertext . this particular jacket from the chapter entrants God and the hypertext is dense with key terms in sophisticated analogies and metaphors . when you History the house the dough out . bio filling mechanistic static naturalistic Space allies indoctrinated in praxis often hard for students to pronounce and found out while reading the and as a porn as the art to inter the The passage to get away of comprehension . grounding students or the hyperlink comprise of acceptable language of the school with pizza that students to two contrasting work using the language of the hyperlink itself a suspected attention and against more difficult key terms . students can begin to find a little ways to make sense of complicated tax . one hyperlink I created to to be a Means of a common word communication . to invite students to uncover Means of more complex formerly the key terms . for right the only through communication can minimize hold me . it teaches Thinking is authenticated only by the authenticity of the students Thinking . the teacher can nothing for her students nor can she imposed a Fox on them . authentic Thinking Thinking those concerned of our reality does not take place in an ivory care of isolation but all Meaning communication . this is true that thought has meaning only get one generated by action upon the world . the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible . . when students click the hyperlink Means communication is paragraph . they find language that in Cardiff in twenty first relationships with little coaching . . communication content to . she is a common enough for a fact is commonality may cause a storm are looking for . but if we think about how Freire is using other key terms the communicates narrative of passive listening . the generality of the world communication should not be overlooked . there is this as the communication requires active participation between two parties . but those other key terms seem to imply active participation by whom you want . Freire is yet to develop how all these terms are related . he's getting there . as you read try to think of all the other key terms of my fall under the umbrella term communication . how can understanding of this word inform our understanding of more difficult . been through this link students are not exactly told how to make sense of things directly . when cards to make sense of things like seeing relationships in a freely independent way . use the complex key term . . . . what she terms the way which of the hyperlink . such a dumb with the use of the word net quarterly . I'm only misinterpreted word easily taken out of the context Freire intended is capable of acting as a speculative attention and often silly from how calm and work sensible language to . again without a head the guiding hand hyperlinks can help students find Meaning by allowing with the arty noted ground here interpretation by establishing relationships with more acceptable words . in this case students are encouraged to consider new crop wheat nickel filly in terms of what Freire were present as an officer . by openly . by the filly has adequate definition from online sources including the option English Dictionary online . Metcalfe billion the other hand does not have accessible definitions . most online dictionaries the students the most common understanding of the term which does not reflect the Meaning prayer attaches to . when students click the hyperlink macro Philly . . there as to consider the term with fresh eyes and then see its meaning and direct opposition with biofuel . NEC will surely . the squiggly red line local women a word processor is this even a word . this was a bit tricky . Freire is not using it here in its traditional sense . Grover he does use by the filly was more direct language to its usual Meaning . in this case . let's take a macro Philly as the and to assist the biofuel . the bio Philly regards to whether the way things natural grown way of what might we make of natural Philly over the next few paragraphs pay attention to how Freirean takes the term the cool Philly and clarifies its meaning by establishing relationships with other key terms . . students are offered more guidance blog and are not given a definition . instead they are given Means to Making Meaning by making connections . . um . wrapping up quickly O's go . briefly touch upon what happens when the into invite students to Korea Hypertext arm . I will say that like the second edition in that we find in a hyper link when we read . Hypertext is also the same position when we create Hypertext was students uses the word to create a hyperlink are in a and a new webpage here using that word is the key to ensuring the fortitude to drive of your ideas forty and create new tax on the on the next page . um I will scrap the precinct certainly problem being discussions with stimulate Dialectic and in keeping with coarse material more than Hypertext . initially there relationships form between webpages mediated by hyperlinks perform pre determined path created by the writer of the Hypertext which arguably is one for my call a pastor transmission of knowledge . awareness of the pitfalls of the determination in creating pastor reflect the way we expect students to form relationships eventually worthy to include in their code writing projects is a good safeguard from the oppressive nature of banking knowledge . three . . . . . . I . I know . I am the first year graduate student here UMass Boston and to . currently I . just a teaching assistant for an American realism . I took Betsy clean this mess . the summit infantry American novel last master . in this with that one of the unit on Harriet Beecher selling on Tom's cabin as the basis for when I'm presenting today . let me get back . . this was a dead the as I created a web question incorporates Hypertext NTU . I'm the project in basically if you're unfamiliar a web quest is a central hub of activity and projects for students chain gauge and either in class and class . which ever come . I set the seven a context that they would go home and read SNG like a short response to the question that goes in and then returning them for in Hypertext patiently . I . this is my add web quest I did It's arm . yes my when quests with the hypertext . . you see here . um but I a did I do think she . I designed it through a Wordpress and seven something like West garden I found that on one precious is easier to use its and it's more user friendly you know it's Mueller and I guess you can free him . but you know which button push Publishing . um it's really easy tool . it's and information quickly . another thing I'm another problem that I had with Chris Gardner that if you wanted to make edits . there's something going on with it with a history of the cash system server that what an update on medically have to go back into where ever he link students . repost the link and have to click that link . um so sometimes the persons would be different . I'm so very editing an advantage as to word press on . enter the political react to what not . I'm . I was briefly FL on design I have a history and background in graphic design . Amen I want to stress the importance of creating something visually appealing for students to when I There bring forth the effort to do homework . I really feel like I should show them that I put the effort into something that's easily readable for them to access . I don't notice her useless and Sheriff bought for the main switch insist upon with of the lead . I . the thing is I hear it whenever say that it's much easier to read fanfare on the screen and fair fonts which are the ones with a little lag time to breath easier to read on paper . I'm at that three of you that since I had seen it work it away . but I'm sure the possibility of me often that for the color scheme History they think it's a white background with black text that very reason for punch of color and disprove that but . that obviously . also of teal . on the camp led and the template is what I think it's a good example . Tom went to Simon that was provided by Wordpress to sell its three which is also another thing that I'm ques garden like if you wanted to keep your eye when quest for more than what was a three month a month yet to pay twenty dollars . got word the dopey money for that sound . I'm . let's see I'm . I waited in no when you're coming up of the when question what constitutes fun fonts for the free comics and serve the pirates because that difficult or beans . especially on the screen . I'm . By obviously that's again that you have not an offence down . so what if the deal is Uncle Tom's cabin and um I thought the so said a great way . see you illustrates how easily the text can be manipulated for the manipulated . add the text can be change for whatever level you're doing for trampoline read it for graduate class B can also be of high school link . compared to head for example Nathaniel Hawthorne . Terry so bright and very clearly on her sentences are not long now . she has to go on a semi colon pinko lands and whatnot I'm still like Wordpress or something here for everyone and I had a Uncle Tom's cabin . you continue to see what and the text obviously with whatever class your teeth . in the store or you can skim the surface really appealing to me and it's amenable to this sort of time . assignments I a e . and especially if that Hypertext Inlet class are on . I mean of all for interactive play area purchase I like to bring and historical background and down like visual learning as a way to Linking St students I see you can obviously do link to YouTube videos six ers . articles whatnot . on the team can hit the three big make multiple stops of learning on It Oriental . . well again with Kiera today is mostly fish on can authentic that students' the painting . ISO questions about the painting how they would relate that to Harriet Beecher sense of Tom's cabin they would answer those questions and hopefully be able to talk about it the same class . so I turned to protect . I'm as you can see . on the pro club from . so it's see you . Uncle Tom's cabin the two brothers who were talking about flavorful and in the United States . really starting content definition of slavery . I'm going to much detail I'm going to read this little paragraph . if we hadn't had enough of that abominable contemptible Haiti . patients were not English accent for three and been there . they had and there would in there was another story and low Saxon is the dominant race of the world and it's to be so . . and some I clicking this link about Haiti . I'm . this is a painting by Jay new a January to June still . he's been featured often DEL scheme to scan and in eighteen forty five um and of the battle of stand Domingo that happens . I the turn of the nineteenth century . essentially him . demand here . essentially well enough students do is look at the composition of this painting . what's going on here what are the patients wearing one of the French who knows where and that really make any difference to how we see what . I wish I knew do here setting up this contrasts . um . to as a central figure in the painting was doing obviously . here is like China show on them he has a white man's head but there . very violent . you know . very violent theme . I . what is the body wavelengths . I'm new to see that there are no signs of aggression was appointed . and pointing here . I would have meant climbing trees . now . you know . content is squashed the rebellion . I'm . the as seen Ann says . I'm . he noted Thinking is entirely composed of all men . so what can we say about the gender dynamic of war . what do we say about what revolution really enters this . the man thing and women are just along for the ride . obviously this painting of the not not about gender and power . but we can use that talk about gender and power with and Harriet Beecher sense of of Tom's cabin . if you are familiar with the novel . I mean know that women play a strong presence and fighting for abolition . convincing their husbands too . I know . commencing their husbands that it's a really terrible thing . I know the ones who are doing the crying and in of the weeping and . in of the sympathy while the men are the ones that are going out . of Making gorgeously . I'm we can also talk about . um . . I was so asking us to consider . the American of all possible American involved with this image of Haiti that painting in the background . this is just one example of a direction that it could take you can obviously go . multiple afternoon sometime . obviously this painting is not a commentary on some of the dynamics that I just tried to explain and about but it's and you know with the way . and a way to get visual learners really to . we of the novel . I'm . the question can easily be tailored and tweak depending on the class a level playing and teaching again . one possibility . I'm really presenting in advocating for multimedia platform swing gave students would otherwise not to say . if not it not only reaches out to dance but it also requires them to purchase a painting be a part of the larger academic discussion . . . and then hold it . . we when I'm already we are the more that we could say about this bed because we don't have much more time . we would like to have to be the brief discussion with argue on about Hypertext questions that emerge on . in your mind just as we talked about our uses of it . so I guess they will end here and on . ask for your feedback . . . . . . . . . . . I the eighty the no tell them to go ahead and read through everything before clicking on link on . I would is also a sign . this activity after they had read that section so they would be familiar with this dialogue if not this particular moment . 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I'm The XD think that there's some instruction that . he students from getting completely overwhelmed by linkage and can eat rabbit hole . . . . . the tree . . . the air . . . . . . my one no one had told me that it . after that day . sometimes they get bogged down warring the book the form of creating a Hypertext and India have signed a very liberating . so there are mixed messages only to quickly address this . your question on your is a new type of syntax that we teach with when we read additional doctor like Hypertext elbow . you can find yourself looking at pictures of other people's cats a Meaning nature that eventually . you know with is of so the focus of the project . hopefully it will out students are real themselves in . but again the idea for me with their Freire in hypertext to have the help of the as authentic up for the students is possible . so I don't want it give them the same texture in order to meet with which to read . . . last . no these . the group . though it isn't . . . . . the ABS . I've yet Melody receipts . well question and I for sure . due to another session . I'm I'm content for my final project and constricting be . I'm amusing . well here in Chile and ends using Hypertext away scaffold seems I'm incorporating proclaimed tempo when my final projects or ideas for the is had see and do that very thing so they create their own Hypertext they are adding links to like me I can of one scene they all had links to it . oh and they drink their own that it being about as this is what you get to Future classes of what were howling to support future classes . in the nine eleven thinking about not sure exactly how it plays out . I think . I do I really like the India because it goes back that consummation not to worry not just individuals Thinking informational were individuals competing at all having access to it with not just I get to you but we are given in and take out my think that's the goal of a way to write is that when can all put in the and take out the sea . . . . . our . . . . . . . . in my . . the kiddos to bed . the . only certain kinds of text editor reasonable to me is Hypertext enacted be their selections . the train since I got out of town to get and you wouldn't but the whole thing . on to read . I didn't Hypertext new It's select parts of passages that seem to agree to in that sense we are re reading passages but not Mr the rereading all text and some pieces like with that the deer short story . it might be rereading old tax on . so I that I don't know what that that strategy would be given to engage with it but I one thing that we have fun with some skin tight Brendan mention is that something about it even but already being in the digital . on a digital screen is attractive for lots of students or something . I've somewhat acceptable to that they don't like finds in the printed versions that might also encourage that kind of extra reading but . . for very interesting point because this is something that . he now as I'm compiling these lesson plans for my Pedagogy classes and getting ready to teach you know my town . you know seminar next year . um you know and you can't force the students hand and the only way I can . I can really make sure that they're doing the assignment is to put questions on you know that that link that I had I didn't show but I had a list of questions and then they would just be required to click the links answer the questions provided and turn and then the class that really the only way that I can ensure that they do them in their spare time . and if they don't get alot out of that art they don't they just do it to you now do the assignment that's their choice . you know but I'm . I think it is . and something that we need to be aware of . and just deal with . you know I'm . a weekday . a kid maybe just more questions It's . . one . . . it's the basis very user friendly . and it's something that students can interact with . . anyways taking care quite explain . on the creative wiki links with the external intelligence elite . the process to explain this to send them to pick up on blackboard is is that it clunky or for making my and my . current use their current blackboard . this does operate that way . a word . . I'm . I use blogger . almost exclusively for the past five years but I just switched over to Wordpress no a green Alex said . it offers much more . it's not as user friendly as Walker on but the guys that offers so many other possibilities have to do with design . on that . blogger doesn't quite proper . . . . yet do it with a sense available to students at UMass Boston in some cases . I'm . in . I have with a number of wiki some of which are too private to the courts . on . but generally speaking I do . and besides my trust me . the public nature of the right . that is something that is out there for other people seem to be see actually on the educator I'm . next the quake and its you . the public . on presentation of our work to get more visible site . I try to get students to go along with that of course there are projects that are more sensitive you could probably not reasonable to see them in that kind of format . or maybe even all my tall but . I think that generally speaking . on the night . . with the right . he won the WS home . . why not . . well . my of my purse no steely gaze . text . the actual . . my personal preference of reading online . I . in relatively to with relatively short text my attention span Rhiannon three is such that I it would be able to absorb the whole thing . yes so I ate . . . . yes the kid . it's difficult to work Linking I might be not to mention the amount of labor that would have to go in. you know I for leaky tire that although the interesting thing to add instant you you're able to hire text online and create links . yet great dad to work through it yet but some long project . guess not I I think that that's good . but on our is natural . I might just be online . Peter's words in the get a Kindle or something . I think it's it's it's unbeatable . what were we aren't . here eighty so much for coming to a great question . . . the side devaluation forms . they in there . whether . oh it's okay .