Blog 14: Thoughts, reflections, ideas for the structure of hypertext essay

After studying in more depth the different types of macrostructures of websites, I have come to the realization that the one that would work best for my research project is the OUTLINE format. The reason for this is that the information will originate from a central page, then at the top of that page, will be different nodes that will take the user to another page where they can find additional information.

While gathering preliminary research, I came to the realization that the information that I posted previously about my type of user has changed. Teachers, future teachers, and school administrators will still be my targeted audience, but I don't think parents will find a need to go onto my website.


My hopes and intentions of organizing my information are as follows

The information will be broken down into different nodes:

1st node- research about the implementation of technology in the classroom (as gathered from the website listed below. http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/volume5/jltvol5eevans.pdf

2nd node- Technology Literacy as a Social Practice: basically in this node, there will be information related to the topic of social practices of reading and writing and the ideological and culturally embedded nature of these practices (information also taken from website linked above. "As Snyder (2001) notes, failure to place technology literacy within its social contexts leads to unrealistic expectations."

3rd node- What technologies provide the most student autonomy and how are they used? What makes them beneficial to the teacher and to the students?

(Possible 4th node)- Budget issues and being able to get the money needed for the technologies that would best suit the needs of students.



One quote that I found while doing research that I thought was really powerful is below:
"We know, purely and simply, that every single child must have access to a computer,
must understand it, must have access to good software and good teachers and to the
Internet, so that every person will have the opportunity to make the most of his or her own life (U.S. Department of Education, 1996)."