ONLINE ASSIGNMENT

DIGITAL TEXT
Submitted to

Submitted by

Prathibha N R,

Prejith Mohan

Lecturer,

Physical Science,

Badhariya B.Ed College,

Velichickala

SUBMITTED ON: 28.09.2015

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Introduction

Uses of digital text

Types of digital text

Structure of digital text

Applications

Designing of digital text

Conclusion

References

INTRODUCTION

Digital Text or e-text is an electronic version of a written text. Digital Text can
be found on the internet or on your computer or on a variety of hand-held electronic
devices. With digital text, changing or customizing the information to meet the needs
of students is easy. By nature, digital text is more flexible. It can be searched,
rearranged, condensed, annotated or read aloud by a computer. And because digital
text is so flexible, it's often a perfect alternative for students with different learning
needs. Here text stored as strings of characters. If we can select and change the font
of text on the computer screen, its electronic text. Many books and historical
documents have been converted to digital format for access via computer. New
writing is being done to take advantage of hyper linking and multimedia.
It may seem a moot question to inquire into the nature of a digital text the obvious
definition seemingly being any combination of words and images displayed on a
computer screen. Thus any digital composition may be called a "text," however much
sui generis: a website as a whole, or an individual page, or a data base, or even a
graphic file with plots or images. The structuring and the scope are different in each
case: a page has much narrower confines than a website, and so does a single
sheet within a larger relational data base. But they share the electronic medium in
which they are communicated. If we start, however, from a different assessment of
what digital thought properly is, particularly in its differentiation from the electronic
dimension, then we will reserve the term digital for a conceptual structure that differs
substantially from the standard text structure as rooted in the tradition of writing
sequentially on fixed display surfaces (from clay to paper to the screen).A database
is digital in the sense I am advocating, but it does not in and of itself develop any
argument. It is true, and significant, that the very design of the database and the
choice of data respond to criteria that must be formulated explicitly, outside the
confines of the database itself. But the primary intent of the author is to hand over
the key to someone who may then develop a proper argument, within the limitations
of the selection and categorization criteria established by the author.
A website has the greatest potential to be a proper digital text, but in current
practice it is so only to the extent that it includes a database. The discursive
component of a website, on the other hand, is no different from a printed text, with a
regular prose flow, embedded graphics, cross references (in the form of hyperlinks).

USES OF DIGITAL TEXT

Visual display can be varied

Auditory display - good for pre-reading

Allows embedding learning supports in content

Pre-reading background, definitions

Summary

Key questions

TYPES OF DIGITAL TEXTS.

1. The pre-configured narrative
Reading a linear text channels attention in a preset direction, the one proposed
by the writer. Obviously, this privileges the writer's point of view, which is, after all,
what writers intend to do in the first place proposing a given argument. In a printed
version, footnotes and cross-references help readers redirect their attention along
parallel registers, and thus to initiate and pursue alternative paths.
2. The tally inventory/list approach
The simple example given above is that of a telephone directory. The level of
organization is at its simplest: a large amount of data is sequenced through a single
sorting key, the alphabetical order. The readers can randomly checking data for an
argument that is being developed outside the digital medium itself
3. The matrix data base:
Systematic search on the basis of organized data
4. The self-generated narrative
The argument is developed from within, through a systemic following up of link
related to inventory approach, in that one seeks evidence for argument, but from
within INTERACTIVE, more developed than footnotes and cross-ref.

STRUCTURE OF DIGITAL TEXT

It is a multi-linear. More properly, it is "polyhedral".A digital text is fluid

but not unstructured. In fact, the farther do the tendrils of multi-linearity reach, the
more complex should be the underlying structure that oversees the direction and the
interlacing of the filaments.
APPLICATIONS
Those who have trouble reading standard print from books
Those that need additional information or supports placed immediately near the
relevant text.
Those that could benefit manipulating or interacting with the text.
DESIGNING OF DIGITAL TEXT
For designing digital text
a. Create our own
b. Reinvent lesson plan
c. Growth promotes change

CONCLUSION
From the study it is concluded that we live in a technological era.So all the
fields must correlate with technology.This can be reflected even in the education as
well.Digital text is an appropriate way for transacting informations to the students
appropriately and conveniently.There are many types of digital text,and it have a well
defined structure as well.
REFERENCES
a.Janet Abbate,1999.Inventing the internet.Cambridge,Mass:MIT Press.
b.Nicholas Carr,2010.The shallows:What the internet is doing to our brains.New
York:Norton.
c. www.wikipedia.com