Hypertext: Reading and Writing Online

Fall 2004 - Vanderbilt University

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Week 1 (August 26): Overview

• Thursday
  • Course procedures and requirements
  • Create a Blog
    • The names of the blogs are each individual's VUnetID.

      The on-line configuration page is at:

      http://www.vanderbilt.edu/blogs/VUnetID/mt.cgi
      (input your own VUnetID in place of the blue text).
      
      I will provide the default user name and password for the online configuration at class. You should immediately change your user name to your own VUnetID and your password to your Vanderbilt password.

Week 2 (August 31 - September 2): Taking a Critical Approach to the Web

• Tuesday
• Read Ed Falco's hypertext short story for the Web, "Charmin' Cleary." (This story is presented by the Eastgate Web Reading Room.)
• Post an entry on Falco's story to your Blog by the end of class time on Tuesday, August 31.
• Class cancelled (make up class will be arranged at a later date)
  
  
• Thursday
• Read Lawrence Lessig, "Four Puzzles from Cyberspace," from Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), pp. 9-19. (Reserve Room - Central Library)
• First Paper Assignment.

Week 3 (September 7-9): Hypermedia on the Web

• Tuesday -
  • Terri Ford and Erik Lover, "Story Problem."  Click on the link for the story or for the magazine. During or after the introductory series of words ("Please explore ... renew ... discover"), click anywhere on the screen. The frontpage of bornmagazine: art and literature appears. Scroll down the menu on the top of the page to 2002, where the hypertexts for that year are arranged alphabetically by title. Click on the item titled "Story Problem." You need Macromedia Shockwave to play this hypermedia piece. If you do not have Shockwave, a message will tell you so. Download and install Shockwave. Click on "Begin a new performance."
  • Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, "The Double Logic of Remediation" (Reserve Room - Central Library)
    
    
• Thursday -
  • Rough draft of first paper due (First Paper Assignment).
    • Name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 1 - draft"
    • Post your file to Blackboard (Log into the course page. Click Tools, then Digital Drop Box. Follow directions).
  • Writing workshop: Peer review.

Week 4 (September 14-16)

• Monday (conferences - Benson 332)
  
  
• Tuesday
  • Lawrence Lessig,"Piracy," from Free Culture, pp. 17-79 (Reserve Room - Central Library)
    
    
• Wednesday (conferences - Benson 332)
  
  
• Thursday
  • Judy Malloy, "Afterwards"
    
    
• Friday
  • Final draft of first paper due, 4:00 p.m. Name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 1 - final"
    • Post your file to Blackboard

Week 5 (September 21-23)

• Tuesday
• Bruce Sterling, Hacker's Crackdown, Pts. 2-3
• Second Paper Assignment.
  
  
• Thursday
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, pp. 1-144

Week 6 (September 28-30)

• Tuesday
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, pp. 144-305
  
  
• Thursday
  • Draft of paper 2 due (Second Paper Assignment). Name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 2 - draft"
    • Post your file Blackboard (Log into the course page. Click Tools, then Digital Drop Box. Follow directions).
  • Writing workshop: Introductory paragraphs; organizing compare and contrast papers

Week 7 (October 5-7)

• Tuesday
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, pp. 305-470
  
  
• Thursday
• Third Paper Assignment
• Writing workshop: collaborative hypertexts .
  
  
• Friday
• Final draft of second paper due at 4:00 p.m. Name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboardas follows: "Lastname, - paper 2 - final"
  • Post your file to Blackboard (Log into the course page. Click Tools, then Digital Drop Box. Follow directions). Please name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 2 - final."

Week 8 (October 12-14)

• Tuesday
  • Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel" and "The Garden of the Forking Paths"
    
    
• Thursday
• Espen J. Aarseth, "Ergodic Literature"
• Third Paper Assignment

Fall Break (October 18-19)

Week 9 (October 21):

• Thursday
• Brian Kerr, "Part of the Old Brick Chimney"
• Third Paper Assignment
  

Week 10 (October 26-28)

• Tuesday
• Class cancelled.
• Third paper due. Name your file as follows: "Lastname - paper 3" - (Third Paper Assignment.)
  • Post your file to the Digital Dropbox in Blackboard. Please name your file both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 3."
  
  
  
• Thursday
• Memento (2000), directed by Christopher Nolan

Week 11 (November 2-4)

• Tuesday
• Multimedia Poetry. Read four poems by Felix Jung on his website synesthesia. Please open this site <http://webdelsol.com/Synesthesia/#> in a separate window using Internet Explorer (it won't work in Netscape).
  • Enter the site, click on Gallery, and then read:
    • "Young Couple, Ohio State Fair"
    • "One Fiction"
    • "Cruelty"
  • Then click on the circle in the lower right corner to reveal the navigation bar. Go to Archives and read:
    • "Miss Charlotte Brown, Librarian, Goes Mad"
• Robert Kendall and Michele D'Auria, "Candles for a Street Corner"
  
  
• Thursday
• Collaborative Web Sites. Design team should have the format of the site completed before class. Editorial teams should have finished making their selections and have a rough ordering of entries before class.
  

Week 12 (November 9-11)

• Tuesday
• Read Joel Foreman, "Game-Based Learning: How To Delight and Instruct in the 21st Century" (handout)
  
  
• Thursday
  • View Star Wars IV: A New Hope (originally released as Star Wars, the first in the series), George Lucas (Dir.)

Week 13 (November 16-18)

• Tuesday
• Star Wars Galaxies
  
• Thursday
• Star Wars Galaxies

Thanksgiving Break (November 20-28)

Week 14 (November 30 - December 2)

• Tuesday
• Read James Paul Gee, "Semiotic Domains: Is Playing Video Games a 'Waste of Time'?" and the "Appendix," from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy, (Reserve Room - Central Library)
  
  
• Thursday
• Star Wars Galaxies
• Fourth Paper Assignment

Week 15 (December 7-10): Conclusion

• Tuesday
  • Star Wars Galaxies
    
• Thursday
  • Conclusion
    
• Friday
  • Fourth papers due, 4:00 p.m.
    • Post your files to the Digital Dropbox in Blackboard. Please name your files both in your wordprocessor and in Blackboard as follows: "Lastname - paper 4a" and "Lastname - paper 4b."