Hybrid Articles in The British Journal of Educational Technology

In addition to full, refereed articles and shorter Colloquium pieces, BJET includes a hybrid genre in which printed articles are linked to materials on the Blackwell website. This gives authors the opportunity of linking their contributions to interactive multimedia material, or to refer to large data sets which cannot be accommodated in the printed journal. It also makes it
possible for those readers who do not have easy access to the internet to read these accounts: opportunities which would not be available if the material was only published on-line.

These web-based materials are not included in the electronic version of The British Journal of Educational Technology but in this section of the publicly available Blackwell website. If they were restricted to the full, electronic version, then they would not be accessible by those
who only receive the printed version.

If you are interested in exploring the use of this type of article by publishing your work in this hybrid form, please contact the Editor, Nick Rushby at nick.rushby@dial.pipex.co.uk

Computer-graphics and the literary construct: a learning method by Avril Henry describes a third-year undergraduate module, Text Through Images (TTI; known at first as Texts with Computers) which ran for some years in the School of English, University of Exeter, UK. Instead of using only words, TTI students made their own computer graphics both to discover and to describe literary structures in texts of their choice. The results were surprising: whatever their 'academic' ability, students on this course regularly produced genuinely original literary perceptions, and their natural creativity was released. The module's innovative methods are eminently transferable to other disciplines.