2. CONCEPT OF HYPERTEXT
BUSH Memex ( Memory Extender)
A sort of mechanized private file and library
Massive scientific information was increasing
more & more rapidly fast It is more
difficult to follow the information ( information
overloaded)
3. WHAT IS HYPERTEXT ?
Hypertext means Non-Sequential Reading
and Writing Allows a user to link
information together.
Hypertext system Enable users to
explore or open any information available in
any document without starting from the first
document sequentially
5. HYPERTEXT & HYPERMEDIA
There is a possibility of connecting hypertext with
other media such as graphics, animation or sound.
The only content distinction between hypertext and
hypermedia is just text.
6. Ease of tracing references
Ease of creating new references
Information structuring
Global view
Customized documents
Modularity of information
Consistency of information
Task stacking
Collaboration
7. The orientation problems are :
1. Where is the user in the network?
2. What information is available?
3. How can the user get to it?
Smith (1988:39) and Conklin
8. Enables users to navigate and brows information.
1. Business
a. Product catalogues and Advertisements.
b. Newsletters and new magazines.
2. Information Resources
a. College catalogues and departement guides.
b. Scientific journals, abstract, and indexes.
3. Personal Learning
a. On-Line help and technical documentation.
b. Hypernovels and hyperpoems.
9. A hypertext system gives individual attention
to a learner or user, at the console and
replies to the system.
The hypertext can be utilized for educational
proposes, such as for creating a personal
learning tutorial which is commonly known as
the Computer Assisted Learning (CAL).
10. Hypertext in Language
Learning
The capability of hypertext
Interactive capability and flexibility
as a computer medium
It can be implemented in learning all
language skills: Listening (e.g.
Listening for specific details),
Speaking (e.g. Discussion Skills),
Reading (e.g. Topic and Main Idea),
Writing (e.g Thesis Statement)
