Critiques on CYOA

[Steven Schneider]

Sorry to be late on this: I was super sick immediately after recording the hangout Monday night, and am just back to work this afternoon.

In the latest IDT 575 Journal I 

1. provide a link to the hangout, in which we did not​ critique the CYOA, but instead worked through how one could use tags and the table of contents to build a structure for an adventure.
2. provide links to three critiques of CYOA efforts, mostly focusing on the use of the backlinks​​ command, and introducing the use of fields​​ to hold the names of tiddlers that represent the choices, and then showing how to extract the choices from the source tiddlers in a comprehensive map of your adventure. 

Still to come: there are some Exercise 3 to comment on; and a few emails to this group and to me individually to respond to...

Exercise 5, for this week: Pick another option in Exercise 4, and try one more.

Exercise 6: for next week, Pick another option in Exercise 4, and try a third....

After that, it will be about Feb 24, and I'd like you to develop one or two projects that you will work on based on your own specificiations. You can start developing that (use a tiddler called "Semester Project 1" and "Semester Project 2") to begin scoping it. You may find it productie to schedule a time with me, or start a thread in this group to get some feedback. A single semester project would be substantial, and require about 9 weeks of work; two projects should draw on distinctive skills and each require about 4-5 weeks of work. 

Think about 

1. remixing existing text into a hypertext: perhaps a paper you've already written, a series of journal articles or chapters about hypertet, or a work of fiction that you can access the text (see the Internet Archive for a great collection)
2.  building a navigational structure out of existing database or series of data tables (this would most likely involve using excel-based tables or a series of excel based tables; anything from wikipedia or the web can be easily imported using the importHTML commands in google sheets (https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093339?hl=en). This could include writing interactives that would replace things like the SUNY Poly banner schedule, for example.

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3. Creating an interactive guide to virtually anything.

On the next Monday hangout, I'll review 10 projects created by previous students to show you some of the range in projects I've seen recently.

//steve.  

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