Ch 9 Hypermedia and Web Authoring

Hyper text
Non-sequential reading and designing power points and online games like sporkle.
Hypertext was a coined phrase by T.H. Nelson in 1965. His idea was to have everything written on an accessible database and have everything written about a subject and related to the subject a click away. This has almost been achieved with the World Wide Web. This idea of Hypertext has lead to non-sequential reading. In many aspects this idea is good. It lets people expand their minds, continue to read if a subject interests them or switch over to supporting information until they find a point where they have come to fully understand a topic or moved on to something else entirely.
I feel that having moved over to the ability of learning from the World Wide Web we would do our children a disservice if we removed the sequential learning developed by books. A well written, planed and constructed book brings about an idea and the understanding of that idea through scaffolding information leading up to the main point. When you take all knowledge out of context and let only portions of the story be told it become a self contained reality that has little to no connection to the rest of the world. Letting kids explore knowledge through encyclopedias and learning from reading online is a great tool to expand the mind. But we cannot lose the constructed sequential development of a well-written book.
The chapter also goes on and describes how to plan out a hypermedia and web authoring. This section is very similar to the basic ideas of constructing a power point presentation. Maintain consistency
Don’t put in to many ideas
Don’t use too much text
Make the text readable
Be gender neutral
Make your web links look consistent
Make sure it works when you finish it