For Monday

The Electronic Literature Collection is back online- so finish reading through the possibilities, post your three choices retroactively (as Blog 3).

Also - keep working on your idea/concept for your hypertext piece and post your writing to your blog. You might begin to map out scenes or think about how many links you will have and how you will use them. Remember - this is primarily a hypertext piece - like we have been reading so far - which means it is texty and that the users primary interaction will be through choosing links. The more writing you have the farther along you will be when we get to the "doing" part.

We missed the introduction to google.sites I had planned for Wednesday = and we miss class Monday (I had planned a long weekend for you to mess around) but that's OK - you will have a long weekend to mess around with it next weekend.

Meanwhile and for class Wednesday:

Read Disappearing Rain. http://www.deenalarsen.net/rain/ We are reading this work as an example of hypertext - and to think about some of the issues of networked fiction (see Larson's discussion with "unsolved mysteries" about linking their site to her story ).

Update Blog 3 & 4.

Most important: look around the SomeoneStory site on google.sites. You are encouraged to experiment - add links - edit - or even create your own site. If you want some directions you can click the help button, or check out http://www.steegle.com/Home. The "How to" and "FAQ" links may be useful. In many ways using software is like reading electronic literature - you just have to spend some time with it.

I realize you have not had any instructions - and if experimenting is beyond your expertise - don't worry, we will work on it in class next Wednesday. The original plan was that I would walk you through the tools and then ask you to experiment - just see what you can do.

Blog 5: Post your experiences with google.sites - tell me what kind of help you are going to need. This way we can have a more productive class on Wednesday.

Have a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!