Week 3 Lecture: Planning your Website.

Hi,

Here is a copy of the material covered in the week 3 lecture
for those who missed it or would simply like to revise.

ts_lecture_week3.ppt

Resources for your Online Documentary

Hi,

It’s week 3 and by now you should be on the way to getting a clear
idea of the community that will be the subject of your
hypertext documentary. Perhaps you can tie the documentary
in with your current research.

You need only produce a basic online documentary,
so don’t feel that you have to be a webmaster. If you need some
inspiration or a working model, why not take a look at some examples
of online documentaries made by previous Transient Spaces students. (http://mmp.adc.rmit.edu.au/?p=669)

Remember: This is not an essay!
An essay has a linear structure in which you slowly build up an
argument. Your online documentary doesn’t have to be like that.
For example, it can be personal and subjective, which may not
result in anything like a clear argument. (However, be careful,
you need to be clearly expressing a point of view, and why you
hold that point of view.) Given that your documentary is
hypertextual–comprising links and chunks–you need to allow
your user the freedom to jump about within your content.

You might do a mix of narrative, interviews and
documentation. You might include links to other websites.
You might have quite a mixture of different media.

Documentaries do entail research. Some of this might be
academic research, and some of it might be less traditionally academic.
You will be expected to show you have done some research, and you
will need to put credits, acknowledgements and references somewhere
on your documentary site.

NOTE: Marking criteria will not include:

• sophisticated web design (graphics)

sophisticated web programming

In other words, the marking is focussed on your ability to deliver
interesting content in a hypertextual environment, and not on
technical or design skills. That said, if your technical or design
skills are so poor that they make your content hard to understand,
that will decrease your mark (appropriate, basic technical and
design skills will be covered in the labs).

Enjoy,

Dean.