Week 9

I am combining my response with the other post on "choose your own adventure" hypertext. As with most stuff I am learning in class I see the positives and negatives. It seems easier to be in the middle than the choose a side. I don't see myself assigning a hypertext in a classroom anytime soon. Students know how to use the internet and encounter hypertext all the time, but do not encounter 'academic writing.' Though at the same time I want to be 'in tune and cool' with the students. I don't want to be writing with the dinosaurs as everyone else is with the Jetsons. I could see using a hypertext to show how confusing things could be and how you sometimes need more detail in a paper. If I could directly relate hypertext to academic writing I may think again on using it. Does hypertext have to be so random? I could see doing an argument assignment and using outside links for extra support or more info, like the Atkins guy Ico mentioned. It reminds me of DVDs and how you can watch the deleted scenes, but not in the movie only by themselves. Without watching the movie first there is no context when you watch the deleted scenes. Each link for the students is the deleted scene and they need to have the complete movie for the links to make sense. Am I taking this too far out of the hypertext world?