ABSTRACT
In this chapter we describe moments of critical literacy as students author hypermedia
within the context of a critical pedagogy. We use the expression hypermedia to refer to
electronic hypertexts that require the author to create, and the reader to follow, linked
pathways through a whole collection of electronic “texts” presented as computer
windows. Each window can present a multimedia experience of combined graphics,
photo images, music, voice recordings, and video, as well as words. Highlighted words or
images provide links in multiple directions to other windows, allowing the author to
express ideas by the nature of the juxtapositions of media in a window and by the
connections across windows. Thus we clip and combine the words hypertext and
multimedia to refer to the whole collection and possible pathways through it as a
hypermedia project.
