Ok so I think I might finally be getting my head round this whole blogging thing.
In relation to the learning journal tasks here is my attempt at the tasks for week 2...
From sites that I look at and often go on, I find that both Myspace and Facebook have a major form of interaction taking place. These are sites that are there for you to create your own personal profile where you can explain abit about yourself and add your friends profiles to your friend list and interact with them. The major interaction is in the form of what facebook calls 'wall posts'. This is where you can chat to your friends and leave them a post on their wall so that they can later respond. (it is kind of similar to msn messenger but it is not as instant as that). Another major form of interaction on Facebook is that you can share pictures. If you upload your pictures onto your profile in a folder there is a thing called 'tagging' where you can tag pictures of your friends and that then alerts your friends that there is a picture of them and therefore they can find it and get the picture themselves. My facebook url is...http://unilincoln.facebook.com/profile.php?id=786600541 hopefully that'll work lol. Who else has got a facebook?
Another form of interactivity online is through the use of forums because forums are based upon interactivity. Forums (although we all now know this lol) are where people can discuss points online. Where a discussion has many replies it is known as a thread. A forum that I often look on (because im a geek and love Lost lol) is the Lost forum. Its quite a good forum because Lost fans can dicuss their theories of what they think Lost is all about and it can get you really thinking about what on earth is actually going on on that messed up show lol. Go and have a look if you like... http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=mb&cat=33026 Does any1 look at that forum anyway?
Hmmm..now for the 2nd part of the task...hypertext...
...How does hypertext shape the experience of using the World Wide Web? Well in my opinion I think that it enables us to find information that we require or are interested in a lot quicker. And also in the form of text being link highlighted it means we can also gather more information on the topic we are actually looking for.
(I hope I actually understand what hypertext is because I was struggling for abit...it is things like the navigation bars on websites isn't it? Would appreciate it if any1 would help me out here.)
Thanx for reading,
Emily x
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Hypertext - yes, it's the buttons and things. The reason that we bother to discuss it, though is because it is a method by which the reader sort of determines their own reading materials. There are choices laid out via hypertext and the route that you take as a reader can vary as you choose. One person's reading of the text can be very different to another.
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