| Systematik: | ID-Archiv EATC id-e-7342 id-e-868 |
| | Status: | Changed | | Checked: | 03-03-02 04:42:37 PM |
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| | Selbstdarstellung: | | The RMIT HyperText project is based on the following principles: empower students' learning through hypertext writing the project defines electronic literacy as the ability to write with digital media, not simply 'read' it. to this end low technology solutions are adopted so that students 'own' the technology and are able to concentrate on the production of content. combine theory into practice rather than separate the theory of hypertext and hypermedia (as a practice, a technology, an epistemology, or institution) students fold their theoretical work into an actual 'doing'. this allows theory to be informed by an engaged practice, and allows practice to interrogate theory. develop novel academic hypertext genre or genres most academic writing in hypertext repeats the patterns of print based writing. this project actively explores, and encourages, alternative writing and publishing methodologies for a critical and hypertextual humanities practice. this is to complement, not supersede, present genres. available and low technology solutions all tools used by the project, and all projects undertaken by staff and students, rely on existing and easily available technologies. integrated technological solutions hypertext and electronic literacy can be characterised as a 'series' of shared competencies across different discourses and practices. teaching, learning, student experience and participation incorporate writing in email, standalone hypertext, networked hypertext, HTML, and use audio, video, text and still image. in all cases software, hardware, and media types must be transparent to the user and system, and as integrated as possible (video is better if it plays in a browser window rather than requires a separate application, for example). The RMIT HyperText Project was initiated in the Department of Communication Studies in 1995 with the introduction of a single semester hypertext theory subject. This educational program has expanded to include three undergraduate subjects (HM331 Hypertext Theory and Practice, HM332 Online Hypertext Theory and Practice, and HP341 Hypertext Production). In addition Advanced Media Production 1 and 2, final year undergraduate production subjects, will require a hypermedia or online component to all work. Finally HC243 True Lies, and HC342 Applied Film Research, both within the Department's Cinema Studies major, have incorporated hypermedia writing practices. |
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