Links
Many of these links were sourced from correspondence with Judy Hakola - Senior Lecturer in English at The University of Maine during the earlier part of 2001. We also have included some sites you can send kids to investigate - either stories to read or stories to participate in.
Raumati Beach School's Hypertext Fiction stories - from several different age groups. Links to different classes hypertext work.
This is a page on the English Online Web Site with 'continuous stories' for children to add to. http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/continu.html
This is the Webpage for the Storytelling in the Electronic Age course given by Judy Hakola.
http://www.ume.maine.edu/stories
We found this to be intriguing and fun to read - a definite example of how you might use hypertext for classroom publishing! The colour, layout of page, text layout and graphics all combine to grab your eye; it makes you want to stop and look around. It is both a visual and a language experience and lends itself to being read aloud. There are several layers - you can take a superficial look and just enjoy the language and text; you can enjoy the graphic and text interrelationship; and you can read between the lines, inferring meaning using the whole language approach.
http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/sandsoot/index.html
This one is a very good example too - lots of links within the story to other stories and poems. This has different layers. If you go into the story from the computer it seems to be written by adults for adults and gives you an immediate involvement into a story. You are expecting to go in and find out something about a computer screen but rather find yourself on a journey.
Whereas if you take the hot dog option it appears to be more written by children for children. The language is not as sophisticated, the font is bigger and the screen is more clearly laid out. There are links at the bottom of the page and 'link words' throughout that take you to other parts of the story, poems and seemingly unrelated stories.http://www.axel-and-alice.com/navs/navsto.html
To get to the stories you need to click on the 'Stories/Poems' link and choose a further link from there. We looked at 'alternate epiphany'. This is a Rebus poem format with graphics replacing words. Both the graphics and other words were links to further parts of the story. From those further parts you again have to make a choice of which way to go. If you chose incorrectly you arrived at a 'wrong' page. In this sense this story is like a pick-a-path story where there is only one true path and other paths die off. It uses very sophisticted language and imagery which we felt would frustrate our children (and some adults) trying to follow and understand it. http://www.claycrystal.com/
Further links of interest are:
You could spend the rest of your life exploring all the sites accessible
from this directory: http://directory.eliterature.org/
Suggested by Dr. Kip Strasma of Central Illinois College, who did his
dissertation on hypertext fiction:
http://www.hyperlife.net/
http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/omega.html
http://www.mindspring.com/~walter/1.html
http://www.zuzu.com/boomerang/enter.htm
This is a sampling of one of the first and most famous hypertext stories -- Victory Garden by
Stuart Moulthrop: http://www.eastgate.com/VG/VGStart.html
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~adw/home1.htm
http://beehive.temporalimage.com/content_apps34/app_d.html
http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/descend/Cover.htm
http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/changing/change.htm
http://www.wordcircuits.com/gallery/stained/index.html
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