The Met

1. From your exploration in the virtual world - http://www.cybertown.com - what is the difference if any between this environment and the chatroom we visited the other day? (the cricket chatroom)
2. Why are emoticons considered to be a “symbolic” form of communication? (See CS 3.3.1.1 Emoticons at: http://se.unisa.edu.au/3.html
3. Read The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing.
4. Discuss the rhetorics of computer-mediated communication. Discuss why'Computers re-introduce many oral characteristics into electronic writing'?
5. What is a domain name? and why is it important?
6. Read Marj Kibby (1998) Winds of Change at http://www.kibby.org/internet/webweavers.html and discuss the imortance of the Internet on women.

1. Read about meta tags and keywords and put them in your page. (see above for what you are to add to today's e-zine) List what your keywords for ezine are: What is your description of your page for the content - description tag? Use the Meta Tags Generator to answer your questions.
2. Find out what webpage 'frames' are and why we don't use them (outside of it would take a couple of extra lessons' - I am looking for something about optimizing)
3. Chose five e-zines from other students in this class (see left column) and write a few sentences on each one on what their e-zine is about.
4. Discuss the use of icons on the net and list ten commonly used ones - plus write a short message using only emoticons (or mostly at least)
5. Read the section on hypertext and answer Why Bolter say hypertextual thinking is unnatural
6. What is important about the PROJECT XANADU - who started it and what is its link to hypertext
7. Stuart Moulthrop is one of the leaders in hypertext fiction. You will spend about half an hour exploring his site and answer the questions below

• What happens when you refresh the page - what do you think Moulthrop did this for?
• Go to the 'hypertexts' link and click on 'The Color of Television' from the page (not from here) and follow the link-story to the beginning - what was the colour of the sky.....?
• Follow the story - click on 'color' that you used for the above question - what becomes of the 'levitating TV'?
• What happens when you click in the TV box and scroll around in the tv?
• Go back a page and click on 'sky' and follow the links and write a paragraph what the story is about
  

8. Open Word and write a short story about anything - make several links to your own pages. Go to your Angelfire or Geocities site. It can be as simple as this http://se.unisa.edu.au/TRYTHIS.html or as complex as Moutthrop. Highlight at least four words that will take the reader to the next page. For example: Highlight at least four words that will take the reader to the next page and back.

9. From 'Influence of the World Wide Web on literature' uploaded of course to Angelfire - (six years ago just to show that your pages will stay) view the section "MULTIPLICITY"; what are some of the issues facing online hypertextual fiction writing?

10. Read the section on Identity and 'Performance in Cyberspace' and discuss the construction of identity online.

What is your geocities homepage? (remember it must end with .html) For example: http://www.geocities.com/com465_neuage/index.html
1. Write a paragraph on one social issue that users of the Internet need to be aware of.
2. Which cities are America's Most Wired Cities?
3. What are the next three largest users of the Internet after English speaking people? see
4. What Arab country uses the Internet the most?
5. 'Future City' What effect will the future city have on the individual?
6.  What is your new journal address at Xanga.com? For example: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=com456neuage