Beowulf to Lear: Text, Image, and Hypertext

The rationale for a literature course with computer lab is to deepen the learning experience with respect to literature content and composition skills and also increase students' technology skills with respect to telecommunications and multimedia. Specifically, students will:

• Do research using on-line (Internet World Wide Web) sources, in addition to research using standard sources;
• Make use of electronic mail and the community Web Board for communication with faculty and students;
• Produce multimedia compositions on topics in literature; involving creation and orchestration of various forms of formatted text, images, animation and audio clips;
• Design and implement appropriate use of hypertext, such as linking buttons, hot words, pictures and image maps, to express significant relationships in their expositions on literature. Assistance with web pages and HTML authoring is offered at "Beginner's Guide to HTML" from NCSA.