Activities for R 11/5

For those working on Fan Fiction, look at the Organization for Transformative Works.

Creative responses working with text >

Creating hypertext fiction. Examples of collaborative blog-based fiction: A Million Penguins and Flight Paths. To create write hypertext fiction on your blog:

1. First create a new blog by going to your Blogspot dashboard and selecting Create a Blog.
2. Write your story. Plan at least one fork per post i.e. two links coming off each post.
3. Think about the type of story and genre that requires forking. Try this science fiction beginning: "The last person in the world sat in a room. There was a knock at the door. The question was: to open it or to remain seated?"
4. Make links off the words "open" and "seated." Make sure you are in the "Compose" mode. Add a link to "open.html" on the word "open" and to "seated.html" on "seated." Now create a new post and give it the title "open" (without quotes). The link from the first page will go to this new page. Do the same for seated, and continue to write your story this way.
   
5. Create a link from your main blog to the story blog. Important: link to the individual posting that starts the story, rather than the blog as a whole.
6. For example. Here's the story of the last person in the world.
   
7. Next, try Hypertextopia, a visual hypertext form.

As alternative, write a story or a novel using Twitter or Facebook or email or txting or something else. Do it on your own or invite collaborators. Here's an example of Neil Gaiman's Twitter novel . Make use of comments, links, photos, etc. Here's a list of fictional blogs or flogs. Another possibility: create the life and story of a character with existence across multiple sites...

Try a Google maps story. Place and location are powerful storytelling devices. Mapping is fundamental to narrative. Here's Google maps for telling meteor landing sites. Why not use this to tell a story? Here's an example: The 21 Steps. (Note: loads slowly if at all. Here's an image from it.) Here's another in German: Senghor on the Rocks. Here's Joyce Walks (James Joyce Google mapped).

1. Go to Google maps and go to My Maps.
2. Create a new map. Give it a title.
3. Add locations to the map. Write text into the location. This is your story! You can also add images, videos, audio, etc.
   
4. Add lines, other features.
5. Be sure to click Done when you are done editing.
6. Click on the Link button in the upper right to get the html code to paste into your blog. You can embed your map directly into your blog!
   

Translation text. Use online text to create new work in/across languages.

1. Take an English text and translate back and forth into other languages. Use any languages you want - use several.
2. Use any text you want - perhaps something of your own or tou might use a Dickinson poem or Bush quotes .
3. Use Google Language Tools, Babelfish, Lost in Translation, or other tools.
4. Post the original and translated text on the blog, and tell what tools you employed.
5. Next, try to Shannonize a text or Dialectize a page.

Please look at shared document and make adjustments! Add, re-order, comment.

Code for adding images to Google map nodes:
Note: be sure to add in "Edit html"



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