| This Web hypertext provides both an online text and a site supporting interaction between readers
and the text. Using Web-based forms, readers can add annotations to the text of the short story by
Stephen Crane. Because the text incorporates reader commentary as hyperlinks, it represents a kind
of critical edition containing numerous glosses. Since most of the glosses have been added by
student readers and the site also contains student-created teaching materials, the site also
represents a learning artifact documenting student interpretation and meaning making efforts.
Finally, because the text allows continual modification through the use of its annotation feature,
the site offers instructors an online teaching space where they can send students to join in the
communal constructions of this evolving text. |