Chapter 5 – Hypermedia
The first thing I noticed was that there is a lot of unchartered ground that needs to being studied and developed in the hypermedia world. Until then, much of the information was considered “rules of thumb.”
I wondered why one of the “density” rules of thumb (hiding the links until the user requested it by using a keypress) is not used in any Web browsers or commercial hypermedia programs. Especially since it was the suggested rule of making reading more effective and improving the aesthetics of the display. (p. 157)
I was unaware about the mouse feature in some Web browsers in which one can hold the mouse button down to receive a set of options. (p. 158)
Has this happened to anyone? In terms of “marking”, many times I entered the Walden Library database and links to articles I know I did not select have already been selected. Does this mean someone else is using my account (which I pray not) or does it just show what students a couple minutes or hours before me (on that page) have selected?
I love the idea of giving users a choice of navigation tools and the clarification made that if there were only one tool, it would not be considered hypermedia.
Reference
Alessi, S.M. & Trollip, S.R. (2001). Multimedia for learning: Methods and development. Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon.
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I remember reading about the key press and wondered about that as well. I do not ever remember running into that before. Part of the reason that does not exist now is because conventions have changed and we use hovertips instead. Those are the little words that usually show up in a small yellow box when you put your mouse over them. You can also have a pop up screen show the information if you wish using a mouse click to activate it.
Thanks for schooling me Becky. I knew there had to be some technical reason for me being clueless to it.
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