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The pedagogy of computing: hypermedia in the classroom

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Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia archive
Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext table of contents

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Pages: 277 - 289

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-461-9

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Charles Ess

Philosophy & Religion Department, Drury College, 900 N. Benton Avenue, Springfield, MO

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGLINK: Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
SIGGROUP: ACM Special Interest Group on Supporting Group Work

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	lThis report is based on a presentation originally made as part of the fifth annual "Computers and Philosophy Conference: Stanford University, August 10-11, 1990.
	2	A subsequent release, Intermedia 3.5, includes enhancements such as a larger number of fonts and point sizes available in the word processor, and a much improved utility for backing up and transfering copies of IM documents sets and "webs," -- i.e., defined hypermedia links -- associated with specific document sets. For more comprehensive reviews of IM 3.0, see my "Intermedia," Computers and the Humanities 24:74- 79, and my "intermedia - Brown University's Hypermedia Program for Macintoshes," Bits & Bytes Review, Vol. 2:5 (April, 1990): 1-16.
	3	George P. Landow, "Hypertext in Literary Education, Criticism, and Scholarship," Computers and the Humanities 23:183f., summarizing a year-long ethnographic study performed by the Office of Program Analysis, the social science section of IRIS, titled lntermedia: A Case Study of Innovation in Higher Education.
	4	Just as my resources for implementing hypermedia were limited, so were my resources limited for evaluating its impact. The following comments are based on my own observation of the class (using as a background better than a decade's worth of teaching experience) and student comments, as these were evoked by evaluation questions and as these emerged spontaneously in class discussion.
	5	Surely You Must Be joking, Mr. Feynmann! New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
	6	A History of Western Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987.
	7	The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself. New York: Random House, 1983.
	8	See Landow, op. cit., 184 ft., with reference to Derrida, Althusser, and Walter J. Ong. See as well Phil Mullins, "New Images of Text, Text-Making and Text-Reading," in Humanities Education , Vol. VIII, No. 1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 4-10, with references to the work of Jay David Bolter, Gary Marchionini and Ben Shneideman.