Annotated Bibliography Assignment

By [Katy Castillo], [Poetry Interpretation] Team

1. [Scout Report Selection. Critical Reading: A Guide Designed for His First Year Students by Professor John Lye. 1996-1997. 2/13/08. http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/criticalreading.html

[This site was created by Professor John Lye from Brock University, Ontario, Canada and gives a preliminary guide to reading and understanding poetry. To best describe his intent Professor Lye writes, “it is essentially an articulation of and a defense of an interpretation which shows how the resources of literature are used to create the meaningfulness of the text.” This site teaches the tools readers use to draw out understanding of a particular poem from word analysis, to phrase interpretation, to the difference between common poetical terms. Professor Lye also briefly discusses how to understand the “style” of a poet and how knowing style helps in interpreting the work. This site will prove to be a useful resource for our project because our project is attempting to create software that presents a new, intuitive way to analyze poetry. This site presents the traditional way that people analyze poetry and by using this traditional method as a starting point we can explore our concept of integrating technological advances to present a “free-verse” or “free-association”. An intuitive way of approaching poetry will provide the reader a faster, more intimate understanding, and therein relationship, with the work. .]

2. [Dania Gioia, The Hudson Review, JSTOR. “The End of Print Culture”. 2003. 2/13/08. www.jstor.org]

[This is an online article published in 2003 that discusses the present day move from public interaction with reading materials to the public phenomenon with all things media for there education, entertainment, and world news. This observation is supported in Dania Gioia’s article through statistics of historical public interaction and dependence on books and written media to current public interaction. Gioia concludes that as the public moves away from printed materials the need to have information that was once only available in print now be available online or in software will grow. Not only will the demand from computer based literature and new grow but the way we receive this information will change because of the capabilities of technology and the multidimensional aspect of interaction with computers.  Where in print we simply read and comprehend, when we use computers we are able to process multiple sounds, texts, and images at once. This article will serve as a supporting resource to the software project that we are attempting. Not only will a multimedia poetry analysis program be in demand it might someday take the place of traditional methods of analysis as contemporary minds are themselves programmed to receive multimedia information more efficiently than one dimensional information. ]

3. [Performance Learning Systems. Inc. “The Benefits of Mutlisensory Teaching and Sensory Words”. Doolan, L. S., & Honigsfeld, A; Haggart, W; Sadler-Smith, E., & Smith, J. P.; Silver, H. F., Strong, R. W., & Perini, M. J.; Thomas, H., Cox, R., & Kojima, T. 2004-2008 2/13/08 http://www.plsweb.com]

[This website is a further resource to supporting our project concept of the benefits of creating a software that is geared to a style of learning and interpretation that is multidimensional or mutlisensory. In this article the writers describe the four different styles of learning (Kinesthetic, Tactual, Auditory, and Visual). Along with the explanation of each learning style the writers provide tips to teaching a broad audience such as implementing aspects of each learning style into your method of providing the information. For example, in an assurance that our project is easy accessible to a variety of learners we should use various terms that would appeal to each type of learner; for kinesthetic learners words that suggest physical, and active and images would be appealing; for tactual learners words that suggest tangible images such as “hold” and “write” would be appealing, and so on. Because people have the ability to process many sensory forms of information at one time the way we teach that information should be adapted. Our project would be a tool that would focus on ones own ability to harness their capabilities for multidimensional leaning and process information in a more efficient way. ]

4. [Ethenos Free Resources. Photoshop Tutorials. 2004-2008. 2/13/08. www.entheosweb.com]

[This site was useful for a tutorial in many software programs and their tutorial for Photoshop was no different. The site is interactive as it guides you clearly through the features of Photoshop. As a novice to much software the site was very easy for me to follow as it explained step by step methods to manipulate photographs with special effects, image retouches, website layout design, lightening effects, and many more. The benefit I see this site being to our project is to act as a tutorial, companion, to the Photoshop itself which upon brief exploring was somewhat overwhelming. I find that without proper instruction the Photoshop user would be able to only work some of the tools but with the proper instruction the user can branch out and utilize the full capacity of the program. One feature of the site that will be useful is the image of Photoshop screen examples that accompany the text tutorial. The text step by step explanation is aided by the images of what the screen should look like in any particular time when implementing a particular feature. For visual learners, such as me, this feature is priceless in it’s time saving efficiency. ]

5. [Ethenos Free Resources. Dreamweaver Tutorials. 2004-2008. 2/13/08. www.entheosweb.com]

[This site is designed to be a free companion to the Microsoft Adobe Dreamweaver program as a tutorial for first time and continuing users. The program Dreamweaver itself is a program that allows the user to create their own page in the program that looks like a web site without having to develop a working web site; the program allows the user to be creative by including images, sound, text, and links. What I found helpful while browsing this site is the step by step instructional guide to explain the features of the program. The site has twenty different links that take you through different features of Dreamweaver including “how to play sound”, “how to layer”, and “how to link images” this link shows the user how to link different images from the same site to the page you create in Dreamweaver. An interesting feature of Dreamwaever is the “pop up” feature that allows the creature to have pop-up’s appear when they open the site. This site shows you in a more detailed and easy to follow way how to use this feature in Dreamweaver. The pop-up feature itself has potential in a business aspect but also in out “poetry interpretation” project that might allow us to present dominate interpretations abruptly, then as the user closes the pop-up the timeline aspect of the project could begin. The site is clear and easy to follow and I would recommend it to anyone who plans to work with Dreamweaver in their project. ]