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HYPERTEXT
-It's simply a text that directs users to a link.
-It refers to the keywords that are usually represented with blue type and displays the info of the subject of interest when clicked or hover upon.
-It refers to the keywords that are usually represented with blue type and displays the info of the subject of interest when clicked or hover upon.
- Hypertext is associated with keyboards.
EXAMPLE:
BENEFITS OF HYPERTEXT
➤User control
➤Can link to multiple forms of media
➤Easy to create
- Minimal production/equipment
➤Teacher controlled
- Resources can be limited by teacher
➤Interactivity
1. SIMULTANEOUS: It's easier to have multiple windows available simultaneously. As one of the most fundamental problems in writing is simultaneity.
2. TIMELINES: Another possibility for hypertext is the expansion of the timeline. In a hypertext timeline, the points indicated on the timeline don't have to stand by themselves, and the reader doesn't even have to search a chapter or search through the index to find supporting information.
3.MULTIPLE PATHS OF INQUIRY/EXPLORATION:
Hypertext is very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form. Reading hypertext is just like exploration. Readers
have the opportunity to read in great depth, and will hopefully find well-written hypertext more interesting than even the most enthusiastic notes.
4. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES: These multiple paths of inquiry can be customized for particular learners or groups of learners according to ability.
5. READER CONTROL: A hypertext environment gives the learner control over paths of learning. Reader control allows the learner to make choices in navigating and manipulating the content on sites.
6. NON-LINEAR INFORMATION STRUCTURE: Hypertext allows for a non-linear movement within a document with the option of quickly returning to where learners started the connection of ideas.
7. SOME TEXT IS SUITED TO HYPERTEXT: Some textual information is not easily presented in a linear form.
8. UPDATING INFORMATION: Written of hypertext can easily access their work and update information, links, and references, to ensure an active and functional site.
9.CRITICAL THINKING: Hypertext allows readers to analyze information from multiple perspectives. Information gathered from different sources engages users in critical thinking as they make choices, discover, and problem solve their own route through the topic being studied.
10. CENTERING AND DE-CENTERING: As the learner uses hypertext, they determine the focus or center of investigation by choosing to move outside the limits setup by author's navigational structure.
11. EMBEDDED TEXT: Text in a document can be directly linked to references and other documents for quick access. Embedded documents text, if moved to a new document, will take its linked properties with it
12. ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION:Not only, does hypertext support synchronous communication, giving it a similar functionality as a book, hypertext enables direct communication with a n author or expert, (asynchronous communication) thus, providing an enriched learning environment. (Brown 1999).
2. TIMELINES: Another possibility for hypertext is the expansion of the timeline. In a hypertext timeline, the points indicated on the timeline don't have to stand by themselves, and the reader doesn't even have to search a chapter or search through the index to find supporting information.
3.MULTIPLE PATHS OF INQUIRY/EXPLORATION:
Hypertext is very different way of presenting information than the usual linear form. Reading hypertext is just like exploration. Readers
have the opportunity to read in great depth, and will hopefully find well-written hypertext more interesting than even the most enthusiastic notes.
4. INDIVIDUAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES: These multiple paths of inquiry can be customized for particular learners or groups of learners according to ability.
5. READER CONTROL: A hypertext environment gives the learner control over paths of learning. Reader control allows the learner to make choices in navigating and manipulating the content on sites.
6. NON-LINEAR INFORMATION STRUCTURE: Hypertext allows for a non-linear movement within a document with the option of quickly returning to where learners started the connection of ideas.
7. SOME TEXT IS SUITED TO HYPERTEXT: Some textual information is not easily presented in a linear form.
8. UPDATING INFORMATION: Written of hypertext can easily access their work and update information, links, and references, to ensure an active and functional site.
9.CRITICAL THINKING: Hypertext allows readers to analyze information from multiple perspectives. Information gathered from different sources engages users in critical thinking as they make choices, discover, and problem solve their own route through the topic being studied.
10. CENTERING AND DE-CENTERING: As the learner uses hypertext, they determine the focus or center of investigation by choosing to move outside the limits setup by author's navigational structure.
11. EMBEDDED TEXT: Text in a document can be directly linked to references and other documents for quick access. Embedded documents text, if moved to a new document, will take its linked properties with it
12. ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION:Not only, does hypertext support synchronous communication, giving it a similar functionality as a book, hypertext enables direct communication with a n author or expert, (asynchronous communication) thus, providing an enriched learning environment. (Brown 1999).
