Category Archives: New Media

Network Novels

December 11, 2007 – 7:11 pm

I came to this by a variety of wefts, and it will be interesting to watch how things develop with Flight Paths.
But I’m not quite sure what is meant by networked novel in actuality. The second section under How to Participate goes:
Feel free to join in our conversations by adding comments to anything on this [...]

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Digital Reading

November 29, 2007 – 8:40 pm

Chris Meade at if:book provides a nice reminder of the need to be vigilant about literacy assessments. Who’s reading and how well is always a question, but it’s one brick on the pile. While I maintain just a few glances in the direction of large reports on literacy, such as those published by the NEA, [...]

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Hypertext and CSS

November 23, 2007 – 8:19 am

It’s been a little quiet here. But I’m getting deeper into Paths and CSS, one the one hand enjoying Susan Gibbs’ Paths and then relearning modern CSS after a couple of years of non-study. The later comes from a need to control academic weblog content to a greater degree without being confined to other [...]

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IF, Grunk, and Lost Pigs

November 17, 2007 – 1:17 pm

Nick’s right. This is unusually good:
Grunk think that pig probably go this way. It hard to tell at night time, because moon not bright as sun. There forest to east and north. It even darker there, and Grunk hear lots of strange animal. West of Grunk, there big field with little stone wall. Farm [...]

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Screen Grabbing

November 16, 2007 – 7:40 pm

I grabbed the Screen Grab widget for the Dashboard and it meets a need. Do other widgets? Anyway, this one serves a nice purpose because it will hone in on sections of the screen and on windows, making it perfect for swift captures of Storyspace text spaces.

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Development

October 28, 2007 – 1:23 pm

Susan Gibb will be tracing her exploration with Storyspace at Hypercompendia. This should be interesting reading.
This is neat. Like a puzzle or a game where you find clues (try the manual, dum-dum), check out different rooms (create links), and eventually finish the task (story).

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On Part 5

October 23, 2007 – 6:09 pm

Mark Bernstein on learning:
We should expect to learn. Sophisticated tools require study and effort, and they repay that effort by letting us do things we could not do otherwise. Calculus is a lot of work, but you can’t understand physics or the stock market until you understand derivatives. Learning to draw the figure is a [...]

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Word 07 (or whatever the hell it’s called)

October 17, 2007 – 8:14 pm

I’m getting lots of complaints about the latest version of MS Word.
My students don’t need a complicating word processor, nor do I. “Complicating” not “complicated.” Basically, the kind of documents we create are simple, printable things. The world, however, of documents is a complicated place. Apparently.
I want to know a few things about [...]

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Right Brain

October 12, 2007 – 10:08 am

For me, the dancer is spinning clockwise.
Via Mark Bernstein, who has side by sides, which sometimes provides a peripheral shift, meaning that you may be able to adjust the spin direction of the figure. In the side by side, if I glance back and forth and hold, the figure will go counterclockwise. Come back and [...]

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Hypertext and Reading

October 1, 2007 – 7:52 pm

Susan Gibb, via an old download from Hypertext 07, is having an interesting time with Ham Sandoval over at Spinning. She’s seeing things I could not and treats the form from the point of view of a serious reader.
In a few days I’ll have up a small review of a study on Hypertext and dialogue [...]

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Eyeballs

September 29, 2007 – 8:57 am

At the moment my eyeballs look like this. I’ve been working long into the nights building Mac and Windows versions of Sandoval. Moving between PC and Mac resolutions aggravated the whole front of my face.

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Storyspace: Next Generation

September 16, 2007 – 10:22 am

Storyspace is, in my mind, the best conceived hypertext writing environment I know, and I know the system pretty well. As a connectivity metaphor, it’s brilliant and prescient. The numerous ways of building relations and seeing how they can be built and abstracted are the reasons I wanted to go to Manchester. I have [...]

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Webyarns

September 8, 2007 – 3:45 pm

Alan Bigelow sends along the newest entry to Webyarns. He’s also given the space a redesign.

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Mediated Fidelity

September 6, 2007 – 8:07 pm

From Sharpebrains’ interview with Daniel Gopher via A Blog Around the Clock
What research over the last 15-20 years has shown is that cognition, or what we call thinking and performance, is really a set of skills that we can train systematically. And that computer-based cognitive trainers or “cognitive simulations” are the most effective and efficient [...]

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Hypertext 07 and Bubble Worlds

September 2, 2007 – 10:49 am

I’m really bummed about my inability to make it to Hypertext 07. Manchester looks gand in September. Fortunately, my novel, The Life of Geronimo Sandoval, was able to make it in my stead, and I want to thank Jamie, Mark and others for its safe travel.
My first regret is that I can’t perform TLGS. [...]

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