Hype-rlink?
No thanks -- I generally have to read the main text before I will go "down the rabbit hole" to embedded links. The most irritating kind of link of all are the ones that don't open in a new browser window, so you have to keep clicking on the "back" button to return to the original (are you listening, Google?).
As for students, well, I imagine they might be less concerned about the main text than an old codger like me. Either way, there's a price to be paid -- I am probably too linear in my thinking, and they are probably too scattered in theirs.
For teaching and learning links may have value in highlighting connections for the reader -- mind you, then the reader may not be learning to do this for him/herself.
Writing with hyperlinks is six kinds of irritating. Much like my reading, I have to finish the draft and then go back and insert the links.
Oh, and if, like me, you weren't inclined to click on the first hyperlink in this blog, I have embedded the old-school audio below ...
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I totally concur with the "rabbit-hole" links. I find it distracting and hard to just stick to the point. Worse still is when sites have link after link after link - to nothing of much value.
ReplyDeleteI hear you...it can definitely be a distraction!
ReplyDeletePublic Enemy...now there's a blast from the past :)
I think you win the prize - the rabbit hole link got me the yellow danger screen...
ReplyDeleteAs for links, we spend a lot of time trying to teach our students about making connections to improve their understanding - do we ever look at these sorts of links? Do we ask them to make them and to justify them? Aren't they self-to-text-to-world?
Try the link from home (that is where I posted from) -- it links to a site of Lewis Carroll related links, some of which lead to games, which is likely what triggers the "yellow screen of death" ... LOL
ReplyDeletehere is the link, I got around the yellow screen of death"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI
he he he he he
Oh sure, "rickroll" my visitors ...
ReplyDeleteThe actual link is:
http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/wonderland/
Don't believe the hype, I couldn't concur more! However, I would love to know how you embedded the Public Enemy video...perhaps task 4?
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