Welcome to

The Web for Writers
Christy Sheffield Sanford for trAce

Workshop Description: This workshop will assist writers who want to work with the web as a medium. Those who wish to create homepages or a place to exhibit work are also welcome. The goal of the workshop is to help writers focus on their dream-projects and to launch these works.

Meetings to discuss and share work will be held once a week for 10 weeks beginning, Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. GMT, 2 p.m. EST, 11 a.m PST. Please obtain a password through CommunityWare. We will use a chat room for our live meetings.

The Workshop Outline below presents weekly topics to stimulate discussion and production. A complete syllabus will be provided to workshop participants.

To apply: please send me a brief description of your project idea. Choose something that you will be able to complete or significantly realize within 10 weeks. Space is limited. I look forward to hearing from you.

Write to me.

 

 

Workshop Outline: Topics to Stimulate Thinking about the Web and its Significance to Literature
Week Topics
1 a. Introduction to the Web  

b. Search Engines, Resources for Writers
2 a. HTML as a Language 

b. Logic and Flow
3 a. Hypertext and Hyperimage 

b. Linking, Blinking and Web Choreography
4 a. Web Conventions 

b. Tables, Frames, Image Maps, Forms
5 a. Participatory Aspects

b. Collaborations, Moos
6 a. Movement

b. Animation
7 a. Java and Applets

b. Surprises, Motion, Multiple Rendering
8 a. VRML

b. Games, Dimensionality, Participation
9 a. Dynamic html, Timelines, Layers

b. Space-time Awareness
10 a. Launching Work on the Web

b. Worksite, Feedback, Revising, Submitting