{"id":81,"date":"2005-10-12T21:11:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T01:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/12\/weekly-response-3\/"},"modified":"2005-10-12T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T01:11:58","slug":"weekly-response-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/12\/weekly-response-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hejirascope reminded me of a lot of things.  At first because of the way the stories just seemed to end, it reminded me a lot of Italo Calvino’s On A Winter’s Night a Traveler.  <\/em>After reading for a little bit longer, I then started to compare it to the Create Your Own Adventure books.  For obvious reasons, you have a choice on which link out of the four to click on.  There were two ways which I found seperated this exercise from a CYOA story.  The first is that the stories typically don’t match up.  I think I did click on one link that went to what seemed like an extension of the previous link.  Another way that they are seperate is that there seems to be a time limit.  You are given a certain amount of time to read each blurb that comes up, and then to choose a link or destination.  Thanks to the ‘back’ button, however, it is up to you whether or not time is a factor.  The first time I ran through it, I hit the back button every time it cut me off.  After about 10 minutes of this, I decided to just go with the flow and see where it takes me.  Just as if I chose my own destinations, the resulting pages that came up were just as random as the ones that preceeded them.  At times though, some of the blurbs did match up — only not in succession.  An example of this are the stories of Mr. Perlmutter.  In a matter of about 5 straight minutes, I read about three or four blurbs on him, but at very random times.  It seemed like you’d get the end of his story in one blurb, and then the beginning of his story in another.  In a way, it did sort of tie things together.  Maybe I just read too much into though.  <\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but notice the aesthetics of the site itself.  Due to the color combinations of the text and the background, it was very easy to read the text.  However, I think that because almost every successive page presented a different look to it — sometimes a radical change, not a sublte one — it seemed to be more of a distraction than anything to me.  I’m not the quickest reader, so the changes threw me off and sort of frustrated me at the same time.  This activity did relate to the Bush piece on how technology is changing and has the ability to advance.  The internet is a new media that has given this Hejirascope the chance for being.  Without the Internet, it may not have the same affect, say if it were presented to a person through note\/flash cards or something like that.  The immediacy of it is what makes it important.  The ability of the media and technology to keep on throwing the new blurbs out on a timeline, for example, is what makes this activity effective.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hejirascope reminded me of a lot of things.  At first because of the way the stories just seemed to end, it reminded me a lot of Italo Calvino’s On A Winter’s Night a Traveler.  After reading for a little bit longer, I then started to compare it to the Create Your Own Adventure books.  … Continue reading Weekly Response<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}