| Week One | |
| 1 September | Introductions
Read Dispossession and keep a Log of your experiences and ideas as you read Learn to create Hypertext in Word (click on Hyperlinks) |
| Assignment | Read Stitching
together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl":
a lucid, succinct investigation of Patchwork Girl written by George
Landow, an early practitioner and conceptualizer of hypertext. Use the
Notes
to help you.
Read Hypertext and Writing. Keep a Log of your experiences and ideas as you read each article (2 logs in total) Make sure you bring your Patchwork Girl booklet to class |
| Week Two | |
| 8 September | Exploring Hypertext
Write a collaborative hypertext: write a log recording your experience as you read and write. Read Introduction to Patchwork Girl Explore Patchwork Girl: write a log recording your experience as you read (2 logs in total) Give me copies of logs to date at the end of class |
| Assignment | Explore Patchwork Girl. You should write an informal
log to accompany each reading session with the text.
In addition, you should begin your hypertext journal in Word this week. Write two (2) journal entries (use your reading logs as raw material) in which you analyze your reading so far of Patchwork Girl. Use the themes to help you find a focus for your journal entries. Send/give me copies of your logs and journal by 15 September. |
| Week Three | |
| 15 September | Who Am We?
Small-group and full-class discussions of Patchwork Girl Introduction to Hypertext #1 (individual assignment) |
| Assignment | Explore Patchwork Girl. Continue with your informal logs for each reading session. Write two (2) journal entries (use your reading logs as raw material) in which you analyze your reading so far of Patchwork Girl. Use the themes for one journal entry. For the second journal entry, choose your own focus. Send me copies of your logs and journal entries by 22 September. Prepare first text-block presentations. |
| Week Four | |
| 22 September | Threaded Lives
Text-block presentations Small-group and full-class discussion of Patchwork Girl Troubleshooting Hypertext #1 |
| Assignment | Explore Patchwork Girl (continue with informal logs
and 2 journal entries per week). Send me your logs and journal entries
by 29 September.
Complete first draft of Hypertext #1 and bring to class next week These articles may help you to develop your ideas. |
| Week Five | |
| 29 September | Draft of Hypertext #1 Due
Hypertext Writing Workshop Text-block presentations |
| Assignment | Complete exploration of Patchwork Girl (continue with logs and 2 journal entries per week). Send journals and logs to me by 6 October. Complete Final Draft of Hypertext #1. |
| Week Six | |
| 6 October | Final of Hypertext #1 Due
Hypertext before Hypertext? Read Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death & Marinetti, The Futurist Manifesto. Write an informal log for each piece as we read and discuss it. |
| Assignment | Two journal assignments:-
First, write one journal entry on Dickinson & Marinetti, paying particular attention to the connections between the form and content of these pieces and that of the hypertext books we are reading. Second, I'd like you to create some small webs of associative linking in your journals. Send logs and journal to me by 13 October. |
| Week Seven | |
| 13 October | Hypertext to the World
The Web and Hypertext: open web pages and learn basic HTML (scroll down to Basic Format of a Web Page). |
| Assignment | Each group prepares a seven-
to ten-minute presentation of its interpretation of Patchwork Girl.
Read T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land & The Hypertext Waste Land. Keep logs as you read. Begin afternoon, a story. Keep informal logs for each reading session and use them to write 2 journal entries. One should identify possible themes, image systems, uses of vocabulary, etc. - a kind of 'ideas I've already noticed' entry. The other should compare the initial experience of reading afternoon with your reading of Patchwork Girl. Send logs to me by 20 October and bring journal entries on disc to class. Prepare text-block presentations. |
| Week Eight | |
| 20 October | Whose Reality?
Group Presentations (send presentation text to each group and to me) Small-group and full-class discussions of afternoon Open web-based journal (Netscape Composer) Introduce Hypertext #2 (individual assignment) and Collaborative Hypertext Read the Noon Quilt Sign up for web workshop and individual conference. |
| Assignment | Look at the home pages on the hypertext
resources page for inspiration in designing your own. Create a splash
page and link it to a table of contents for your site.
Continue exploring afternoon. Keep informal logs (send to me by 27 October) for each reading session and use them to develop two journal entries (posted to your web page by 27 October). Prepare text block presentations. |
| Week Nine | |
| 27 October | Content and Form
Small-group and full-class discussions of afternoon Read the Introduction to Robert Kendall's A Life Set for Two. Write a journal entry on how his ideas (especially on reality/memory) relate to afternoon. Add this entry to your web page. Continue to explore afternoon |
| Assignment | Continue exploring afternoon. Keep informal logs (send to me by 3 November) for each reading session and use them to develop two journal entries (posted to your web page by 3 November). Prepare text block presentations. Prepare First draft of Hypertext #2 |
| Week Ten | |
| 3 November | First Draft of Hypertext#2 Due
Web-based Hypertext Workshop Keep an informal log as you read and discuss this hypertext. How does Amerika's style differ from Jackson's and Joyce's? What techniques does he use the other two writers do not? What impact do they have? |
| Assignment | Complete afternoon. Keep informal logs (send to
me by 10 November) for each reading session and use them to develop two
journal entries (posted to your web page by 10 November).
Each group prepares a seven- to ten-minute presentation of its interpretation of afternoon. |
| Week Eleven | |
| 10 November | Fractured Real Estate?
Group Presentations on afternoon, a story Read Mark Amerika, Hypertext Consciousness. Keep an informal log as you read and discuss this hypertext. How does Amerika's style differ from Jackson's and Joyce's? What techniques does he use the other two writers do not? What impact do they have? Do you see any similarities in Amerika's work to that of Marinetti, or to your own manifesto writing? |
| Assignment | Read Stuart Moulthrop, The Shadow of an Informand (Use Notes for guidance). Develop a journal from your intitial encounter. Post it on your web page by 17 November. Prepare text block presentations. Read Stuart Moulthrop, Where To? Complete Final Draft of Hypertext #2. |
| Week Twelve | |
| 17 November | Final Draft of Hypertext #2 Due
Word Music Begin to explore Forward Anywhere, keeping informal logs as you read and discuss the piece. Introduce Hypertext #3 Sign up for group project conference (before Thanksgiving) |
| Assignment | Continue to explore Forward Anywhere. You should
post two (2) sets of 2 journal entries each on Forward Anywhere,
the first by 24 November, the second by 1 December.
Begin to read Nancy Kaplan, Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print. Draft of group collaborative hypertext due by 1 December. |
| Week Thirteen | No Classes - Thanksgiving |
| Week Fourteen | |
| 1 December | Draft of Collaborative Hypertext Due
Hypertext Workshop Small-group and full-class discussions of Forward Anywhere |
| Assignment | Complete Forward Anywhere. Keep informal logs for each reading session and use them to develop two journal entries (posted to your web page by 8 December). Prepare Draft of Hypertext #3 |
| Week Fifteen | |
| 8 December | Draft of Hypertext #3 Due
Hypertext Workshop Small-group and full-class discussions of Forward Anywhere |
| Assignment | Submit final draft of Hypertext #3 by 4-00pm on Monday, 13 December. It should be on your web page, and you should send me the URL. |
| Exam Day | Present Group Projects |