Hypertext Project
Progress Report
New Media: Perspectives
Instructors: Ersinghaus and Timmons
In a fairly substantial written report, describe your progress with your hypertext project. In this report, you should describe your overall progress with your hypertext that was begun in February from the seed idea and explore and evaluate the decisions you made in keeping with the idea of the link, the writing space, and how you have extended your system, whether that system has continued in paper form, in Powerpoint, Storyspace, or Hypertextopia. You should supply the physical copy of the hypertext as it exists to Ersinghaus or Timmons and post this written report to your weblog by March 13. Supply the hypertext not just in a pile of paper but in a fashion that uses some method of design for how you want the audience to experience the work. Hint: string, folding, color code.
Here are some items in check list form to weave into your written analysis:
1. Describe how your hypertext has developed from the initial idea to what you have now. You should describe in detail what you have physically constructed.
2. Describe and explore some of the choices you made in progressing from writing space to writing space. In this area, you’ll want to write about the choices you made for specific links and what these links tell the audience. For example, do your link names anticipate hypertext “destinations.”
3. Describe your method. This can be interesting because in this area you can explore problems you’ve encountered, successes you’ve had and ideas about the process you find interesting or daunting.
4. Explore your own creative and system thinking. Since you’re building a system and creating from a seed idea, the hypertext is under your control (or not). This means that some awareness of your own choices, why you made them and how you are addressing problems, can tell you a lot about what sort of creative thinker you are. Note that we consider creativity in lots of ways: technical, intuitive, experiential, visual, procedural—all of these are kinds of creative thinking and lead to many different methods of problem solving. The developers of Wordpress software are wonderful programmers and designers: but they’re tag line is: Code is Poetry.
5. Answer this question as a part of your conclusion: when faced with a problem, you . . .