- basic
e-mail, library research and internet, with the objective of familiarizing
students with electronic communication and building a minimum skills
base in the class (one class per week during the first three weeks
of the semester)
- intensive
internet evaluation, with the objective of instilling in students
the intrinsic unreliability of any source (text or electronic) used
indiscriminately and of sophisticating students' search and evaluation
skills, using our access to the information-rich internet as an example;
introducing techniques for effectively reading and researching hypertext
(one class per week for three weeks in the middle of the semester)
- planning
and scripting hypertext. Good hypertext
is broken down into easily manageable text blocks, succinctly written
and precisely linked together. I wanted to use these examples to sharpen
the construction of arguments, develop transitions and encourage precise,
concise writing. (one class per week for four weeks following the
internet evaluation classes, plus two presentation days in the final
week of the semester)