Network Literacies

To answer students’ questions re the project: please include a bibliography as a HTML page in your site ‘technology’ covers all kinds technology, including non-digital technology like photography although the Project information says the project is due at 5 pm on 28 May, you can bring the project to the May 28 tute and submit [...]

NTEU STRIKE - THURSDAY 21 MAY 2009   Dear students, Classes are cancelled today due to industrial action at our university. This means the 3.30pm and 6.30pm tutorials and also the 5.30pm lecture today. Belinda will repeat the 5.30pm lecture next week on Thursday at 5.30pm in BA506/7. Consultations will resume as usual next week. Thanks, bb >>> [...]

Next week Belinda will be available for consultations on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you are having technical troubles, or want to work through some ideas, make an appointment for yourself on these days: email bbarnet@swin.edu.au. You can bring your project in with you. Note there will be no lecture next week (Week 12) only consultations. [...]

If you would like to watch this week’s lecture at home, click here http://il.cc.swin.edu.au/ilectures/ilectures.lasso?ut=395&id=15042

Due Date : Thursday 28th May This is an online writing project aimed at uncovering your engagement with the critical aspects of the subject on a practical level. It will be a website which explores the research topic “memory and the archive”. This is not an essay; hypertext is a nonlinear writing form, and you will [...]

There will be a guest speaker next week, Tuesday 12th of May in EN615. Paul Green will speak about the future of the web. I will show a video of this lecture to the students in Thursday’s class. Paul Green has post graduate qualifications in arts and software development, and for the past 8 years [...]

You can download Dreamweaver or Photoshop for a free 30-day trial here and install it on your machine at home. After 30 days it will expire, but that is long enough to do your project. You will need to sign up to the Adobe updates to get it, though. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

Here’s an interesting website on the topic, if anyone is interested. The authors believe the arts may help to increase “intelligibility” in sites. http://trex.id.iit.edu/visiblelanguage/Feature_Articles/ArtofMemory/ArtofMemory.html

Here are some interesting references from Adolfo (Tuesday’s 1230 class): Davida Charney’s piece (that argues that hypertext’s associative structure is less natural than print in terms of information encoding) is from Selfe, C. L. & Hilligoss, S. (eds). 1994. Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology. The Modern Language Association of [...]