1. E-Lit: The Web and English Literature

2. Aim of class Discuss week’s activities
Outline the history of the Web and its use
Hands-on look at four ‘tutorials’
Discussion

3. Week’s activities Reading? Discussions and analysis
Target audience, authority, design
Matched with checks for print-based publications
Questions re evaluation document?

4. Internet for English Gateways Electronic texts
Individual texts, authors
Bibliographic resources
On-line tutorials
General information pages
Any others?

5. The Internet ‘Internetworking’
Dates back to 1960s - see ‘histories’ on course site
Web begins in 1990 with Tim-Berners Lee at CERN laboratories
Mosaic released in February 1993
January 1995 ‘Isaac Rosenberg’ launched

6. Some terminology Browsers and servers HTTP and HTML, moving to XML URL
‘Linking’
Navigational features: back buttons, go menu, history lists, bookmarks...

7. Hands-on 1 Look at the Voice of the Shuttle
Browse collections to see range and type of web sites
Discussion

8. Hands-on 2 Look at the ‘Virtual Seminars’
Look at tutorials 1, 2, 3, 5, and Archive
Evaluate using developed criteria
Differences in design between the first two and 3 and 5?
Target audience(s) - see Tracker, see Tracker for Rosenberg
Tutorials on Archives model

9. Weeks’ activities
Write evaluation of web site or CD-ROM (min. 2,000, max. 3,000).
Can be a comparison of products
Plus electronic version on disk
Reading for next week - Sutherland and Condron, Landow (intro), Conner on hypertext structure of a novel, Tosca (speaking on the 11th Feb)