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Directions | Shakespeare | Blake | Why
Many students, even those who like to read, don't understand or enjoy poetry. This project is intended to help people of all ages understand poetry in a deeper and more meaningful way by creating linked annotations to words within the text of poems.
Final Project -Presentation
I. What is it?
- Annotated Shakespeare and William Blake
- Show how it works. -internet version (see directions page).
- Technical details
- There are only 5 sec. of reading time, so two or three lines of alt text are the max.allowable. Less would be neccessary for children, since their reading rate is less than an adult.
- 1-2 second delay in text appearing on the screen. This has to do with connection speed; the slower the speed, the slower the text appears on the screen.
- Mac ready? Yes!
- Usable learning tool for children as well as adults, which
we talked about in class.
- You don’t HAVE to read the text. If all the reader wants to see is the poem, that's all they have to see. The cursor can be moved to the side of the screen to avoid alt text.
- for children, just simplify the alt text
- Not quite Nelson's ideal (creator of Hypertext), but it has the same idea of trying to fit several sources within a single text using a system of links.
- The purpose is to create another tool for sharing information. If this is a useful tool to help someone understand a poet like Shakespeare, that is a good purpose.
- Could be an alternative to endnotes in online writing
- GOOD: There is no scrolling to read the notes, thus losing your place and train of thought.
- BAD: Alt text carries less information. Long endnotes would not be possible.
- BAD: It can’t be copied. Alt text cannot be copied and pasted from the screen. However, it could be if they viewed the source code from their browsers.