week 5 : 27 april
hypertext theory

• How To Articles
  Please credit images downloaded from the web -- we want to avoid copyright issues -- or else explicitly state that you created the images
  
  
• Team time is on the front-end tonight! Would one person from each team please send me an e-mail (subject: team update) with a report on the team's progress.
  
  
• Guest Speaker : 7 pm
  Dave Farkas, Professor, Technical Communication
  :: PPT
  :: Show or Hide Links/References
  • Defining postmodernism - from The Electronic Labyrinth
  • Is there a definition of Postmodernism? - from philosop-l
  • Postmodernism - from pbs
  • Showing the Context of Nodes in the World-Wide Web - from ACM, CHI '95
  • Information Foraging Theory Applied - scent, from pixelcharmer
  • Hot on the Scent of Information - from wired.com
  • Cognitive Psychology and IA: From Theory to Practice - from boxes and arrows
  • Information foraging - from ScienceDaily
  • Designing for Information Foragers: A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking on the World Wide Web - from internetworking
  • Farkas paper in week 5 of eReserve
  
  
  
• In small groups:
  Reading and lecture review
  
  1. Each team member should provide a quick recap of the article that they read and recommend whether or not others should read it.
  
  2. Your web design team must recommend a web site style guide to corporate management; part of that recommendation deals with when and how to link, both on the intranet and the company promotional site (your firm sells services). Based on your readings and Dave's lecture, what are your recommendations? How will you "sell" these ideas to management? What are the basics of hypertext theory that all managers need to understand? What is the role of rhetoric? Pick one person to report for the team.
  
  

assignments

• Please complete the speaker feedback survey by 29 April.
  
  
• Please read
  • Make Text Scannable, sample chapter from Hot Text: Web Writing That Works
  • Write Menus That Mean Something
  For ePost: how can you put your learnings from these readings into the remaining assignments this quarter?
  
  
  
• Mid-Quarter Status : would each person please send me an e-mail by Friday (subject line : mid-quarter status report) with an update on your individual project as well as a narrative explaining your roles/responsibilties on your team project.
  
  
• Second story (3rd assignment) due on Thursday 6 May -- "your choice" -- remember to post one-page description to eSubmit (one page overview includes URL)
  
  

resources

• Economist Style Guide, especially the Introductory section
• BBC Style Guide
• Example of online research paper and project analyzing narratives