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 every week for 10 weeks beginning, Thursday, March 4, at 7 p.m. GMT, 2 p.m. EST, 11 a.m PST. Please register through CommunityWare.

The Workshop Outline below presents weekly topics to stimulate discussion and production. Handouts that further elaborate on the weekly topics will be provided throughout the series. The sites suggested in Weekly Preparation are not to be considered an endorsement but simply as an effort to demonstrate a range of possibilities.

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