1. OVERVIEW

2. CONCEPT OF HYPERTEXT
 BUSH Memex ( Memory Extender)
 A sort of mechanized private file and library
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 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

4. Content
A B C
SCREEN
F E D

5.  Thereis a possibility of connecting
hypertext with other media such as
graphics, animation or sound.
 Theonly 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)