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English 138: Winter 2010
A&S 128, the journalism lab
Section 1: Mon 530-830
Section 2: Wed 530-830

Personal Hypertext Project. This can be anything you wish, so long as it expresses an aspect of your "networked self” and involves some form of research/information gathering (broadly construed), and at least 1800 words of your own writing. This can be a service project for an organization with which you're involved, or a fan site for an author, band, or sports team that you admire. It can be creative writing, an autobiographical photo-essay or travelogue, family genealogy project, or a tribute to a relative who has passed away. It can be an annotated edition of a favorite text, such as a poem, song lyric, or photograph. You will probably want to link this hypertext project to a personal home page, which you can use as a hub for your other projects for this class, pages for other interests, schoolwork, career needs (such as a resume, recommendations, or writing sample) etc.

STEP 1: Check out what other folks have done. Below, you'll find links to every student's work in last spring's version of this course, as well as to recent students in other classes with similar assignments.

STEP 2: Write a complete draft in paper mockup. You should carefully complete the process we begain in class, testing the organization of your site on the paper mockup. Imagine a reader landing on the splash page, then jumping around in the site using the hyperlinks you underlined: does the site feel usable and sensible to you? Feel free to consult the resources below for ideas regarding good website design, but you should also rely on your own sense of yourself as a reader and navigator of hypertext: what works for you? MAJOR HOT TIP: your life will be much easier if you WRITE out a draft of the proposed text and links AT THIS STAGE--on the paper mockup--before you go to the word processor. Trust me on this.

STEP 3: Type the revised text into a word processor, gather images.Once you are comfortable with the paper mockup, please type the already-written and revised text you propose for each of the pages in a word-processing program without formatting (no itals, bold, etc). Then collect the images you plan to use, and bring text and images to the next class on keychain drive (you can email them to yourself as a backup, but please bring the drive to speed up the process).

STEP 4: Use one of the assisted-creativity programs to develop a component of your site. Any of the programs is fine: create a cartoon, a text-to-video film, a photo mash-up or educational presentation, a song, whatever. Email yourself a note of the link to where the finished cartoon or video, etc, is stored online. Try to make sure what you create is an asset to the project, but mostly: enjoy!

Bassem Banafa... Lydia Biddle... Erin Ching... Bryan Donaldson... Erikka Fisk... Margaret Hooper... John Howard... John Irby... Courtney Jaeckels... Audrey Kumasaka... Samuel Lee... Kat Lin... Sam Llona... Jackie Lynch... Katrina Marume... Mariam Mostamandy... Matt Peterson... Katherine Quinn-Shea... Kellie Quist... Calvin Ruiz... Chris Stamas... Kevin Sullivan... Katherine Tolentino...

Melissa Zhao... Dyani Vanderhorst... Kristen Ryder... Rena Pompa... Jennifer Hinds... Katie Ranney... Patrick Boocock... Chris Rose... Jeremy Black... Traci Saito... Meghan Mooney... Woodson Hobbs... Marie Fuchslin... Danielle Miller... Marco Lostaunau... Mike Wong...Thomas Favero... Hilary Titus... Franscesca Dugan... Kim Courtney...

Some randomly selected examples of student work in earlier versions of this class

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