Hypertext Projects

Kathleen Andrews
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34272/electionindex.html

Kayla Bryant
TK

Gabriela Beristain
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk36584/

Sean Casler
http://www.shawniecas.741.com/

Vanessa Faljean
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33686/hypertext/

Rachael Finley
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31764/secret/index.htm

Amelia Gajary
http://virtualfortuneteller.fortunecity.com/index.html

Chris Gately
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk26181/splash.html

Phil Govia
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34812/this_is_joe/

Jeff Huntley
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32432/Hypertext/vietnam.htm

Ryan Kerr
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk21024/hypertext/

Chris Leth
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33550/Hypertext%Project/Home.html

Bryan Sharp
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32516

Danielle Tagerty
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31722/Hyperext_Project/

Jennifer Zumot
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32590/Hypertext_Project/Bremen%20Town%20Musicians.html

Emily Wray
http://www.internethallway.com/hypertext

Two Cool Web Pieces

A couple other visual/literary pieces that are fun to look at and play with:

Bembo’s Zoo
http://www.bemboszoo.com

Carl Comix (a plain version and a Java version)
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/carl/index.html

Next Two Weeks

For those of you who weren’t in class today, we got started on writing our hypertext projects.

On Wednesday, I’d like to have a HARD COPY of your hypertext piece (it doesn’t have to be finished, but pretty close) as well as a short description of how you plan to have it work.

On this day, we will have a Dreamweaver lab and begin to adapt these pieces to the web. Ditto for Friday.

There are no strict guidelines for your hypertext projects except that I’d like you to make it look good, and any images used have to support the text. You don’t need to have images, but the text then better BE the image (in the manner of “oooxxxooo” by Juliet Martin).

Here is a list of ideas for the hypertext pieces:
http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/03/ideas-for-hypertext.html

These hypertext projects are due to be on your stk website by Friday, March 30. (I moved the day since, in fact, I won’t be here on March 28th, I’m traveling to Montreal to give a talk.)

So it looks like this:

• Wed 21: hand in hard copy of hypertext, Dreamweaver lab
• Fri 23: Dreamweaver lab
• Mon 26: introduction to Flash <== very important class, don’t miss it
• Wed 28: no class (but come in to work on hypertext project)
• Fri 30: HYPERTEXT PROJECT DUE, Flash lab

After this, it’s Flash until the end of the semester.

Flash Sites

I'd like to start compiling a list of Flash sites that we can discuss in class, so please send me emails of sites that you've looked at. I'm particularly interested in sites that use text in interesting ways:

www.newgrounds.com

Lulu Books

Kathleen Andrews
TK

Gabriela Beristain
http://www.lulu.com/content/698377

Kayla Bryant
http://www.lulu.com/content/712638

Shawn Casler
http://www.lulu.com/content/698991

Vanessa Faljean
http://www.lulu.com/content/677559

Rachael Finley
http://www.lulu.com/content/704345

Amelia Gajary
http://www.lulu.com/content/677581

Christopher Gately
TK

Philip Govia
TK

Jeffrey Huntley
TK

Ryan Kerr
http://www.lulu.com/content/677587

Christopher Leth
http://www.lulu.com/content/677583

Christopher Ludewig
TK

Bryan Sharp
http://www.lulu.com/content/704037

Danielle Tagerty
http://www.lulu.com/content/677569

Emily Wray
http://www.lulu.com/content/705207

Jennifer Zumot
http://www.lulu.com/content/677595

Photo Galleries

Kathleen Andrews
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34272/Photo_Gallery/

Gabriela Beristain
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk36584

Kayla Bryant
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31484/pizzawork/

Shawn Casler
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk28893/multimedia/

Vanessa Faljean
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33686/Dreamweaver/

Rachel Finley
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31764/photo_gallery/

Amelia Gajary
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31964/

Chris Gately
TK

Philip Govia
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34812/Website/Main.htm

Jeffrey Huntley
https://webmail.stockton.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32432/Dreamweaver/

Ryan Kerr
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk21024/photo_gallery/

Christopher Leth
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk33550/Photo_Gallery/Home.html

Chris Ludewig
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk34812/photoGallery/

Bryan Sharp
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32516/

Danielle Tagerty
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk31722/Gallery/Gallery/

Emily Wray
http://www.internethallway.com/multimedia

Jennifer Zumot
http://loki.stockton.edu/~stk32590/Photo_Gallery/pics.html

Ideas for Hypertext

I'd like everyone to write a short hypertext that involves at least 12 "lexia" -- i.e. pages of at least a paragraph each.

The interface design is up to you. Make it pretty, though, and make sure the images and text design you use contributes to the experience of the piece.

Ideas on how to write this include:

• find two different "voices" from other internet sites and make a conversation between these two
• conceive of a writing "constraint" and write all of the lexia using this (for example, paragraph size, a poetic form, word count, etc.)
• use an idea from your hypertext play and use the outline that I gave you for that assignment (at least 3 "props," using periods in time like "later that day," "meanwhile," etc
• a fake documentary on some kind of fake animal or something like that
• "choose your own adventure" type story, where you ask the reader whether or not they want to go here or here, etc.
• an interactive adaptation of some other literary or art work that you know
• an autobiography where you come up with a constrained way of writing non-fiction based on time -- i.e. one paragraph for every year, or one sentence for every month -- to be read out of order

Midterm Assessment

These are the things I'll be evaluating you over the break:

• Lulu book (cover design, editor's introduction, typesetting)
• photo gallery (design, interface, splash page)
• hypertext writing assignment
• CD cover (extra credit)

Please put on your blogs:

• image of your book cover
• link to Lulu page
• link to photo gallery
• hypertext writing assignment
• image of CD cover if you have it

Even if you were able to get your book on to Lulu, send me a copy of the .pdf and the cover image.

I'll send out an email with a mid-term grade on it.

Hypertext Fiction Assignment

ALSO FOR WEDNESAY is your short paper on a hypertext work of your choice. Here are the links for that again:

http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/sample-hypertext-fictions.html

This writing assignment should be at least 3 pages, double-spaced, in Times Roman font, 12 point, with one-inch margins. Any shorter than that and you risk being marked down. Again, if it's not in by Wednesday, the highest grade you can get is a B.

Issues you should cover:

• how does the interface work? is it successful, something you enjoy interacting with? does it help the literary aspects of the piece?
• how does the text/image interaction work? is the text ITSELF being used as an image?
• what kind of quality does the writing have? is it good writing? is it more like a poem, story or video game? does reading it out of order help the writing, or is it distracting?

BE SURE TO QUOTE FROM THE WRITING. I.e. you have to support your statements -- don't just write that it was hard to understand or that it was weird -- get some of the actual text into your paper. Also, these are all famous works, so you can Google the author and the title of the piece and most likely find info on them.

Some of these are pretty strange works, so try your best...

This assignment is in preparation for your own creative hypertext, which we'll discuss in class.

Photo Galleries

It turns out that I can't be at the next class, this Monday, due to a doctor's appointment that I can't cancel (one of those things where he can't see me for two months or so). Sorry about that.

So here's the deal. By WEDNESDAY, I want all of your photo galleries uploaded to your stk accounts. Put them in a folder called "photo_gallery" inside the folder that you already have called "public_html". The main page of your file should be called "index.html" so when I go to your account and type in your address, I get the first page.

If you don't get this done by Wednesday, then the highest possible grade you can get on it is a B. I won't be so lax about this as I have been for the book projects because there are not so many technological issues to contend with.

If I were you, I would come to class on Monday anyway and work on your photo gallery.

The directions for uploading the files to your stk account are on the class blog:

http://2007stocktonmulitmedia.blogspot.com/2007/02/class-websites.html

Be sure to upload all of your Dreamweaver pages as well as all of the image files that they refer to. Otherwise I will get a bunch of dead links, etc.

The photo gallery must include the following:

• a first page that tells the name of the gallery (orat least tells us what it's about)
• a gallery page of thumbnail images that I can click on to see the larger versions of the photos
• a contact page that has your contact information

All of these pages must have a menu bar on them, including the individual photo pages. This might be time-consuming, but creating a website is often a bit of drudge work. But the good news is that, the more you practice, the better you get!

Try to make it look pretty.

Free Online Storage

Here are a few services that offer free online storage. For those of you who don't have flash drives (or who have a tendency to lose them), this could be a great way to back-up your work.

http://www.box.net/

http://www.xdrive.com/

http://www.mediamax.com/

http://storage.vmn.net/

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc//home

This is just the first several hits on Google -- there are undoubtably more. I don't think you'll need more than a gig of storage, actually not nearly that much, but some of these offer up to 25 gigs of free storage. It's a crazy world.

Lab Access / Trial Software

I’ve been told that D-019 is open on Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturday, it is open until 5 and on Sundays until midnight.

If it is not open, you can go to room D-006 and have someone open it for you. Apparently the door shuts sometimes.

For those of you who want trial versions of Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash, they are available here:

Fireworks

Dreamweaver

Flash