Surf it, Scroll it, Pose it, Click it

Cool!!!!! Call me childish but this is my type of composition. This cite isn’t your typical composition or literature, but with a few extra clicks you can see how it relates. Through the use of vibrant colors and hyperlinks, what appears to be a huge, random collage actually has meaning. For some reason as soon as I stared at the screen I knew to scroll over and click the individual boxes. The main white box toward the bottom right corner acts as a table of content almost. When you scroll over a small box, the title and author appear in the big box. Clicking a box leads you to its own private page strictly about that topic. This is a fun, interactive composition rather then a plain text one. I personally like it, the colors, the links and the layout itself is just so different you don’t expect it to be all about literature. We automatically assume literature is going to be plain and dry, print on paper but this really shows how technology has changed the meaning of literature of the years. From this site we can see how the use of colorful photos completely through off our minds. Maybe we are guilty of stereotyping literature? I think so. Don’t get me wrong, the purpose of it is still boring… learn about literature. Which, obviously, as we come to the end of our semester is played out but at least it got me to look at it a lot longer then I would have if it were traditional text. As childish as it may sound or be the excitement of change, visuals and interaction makes a huge difference on attention spans and interest in general. I like it and I think it would be really cool to use for future classes.