When the Freedom Web is published on the World Wide Web it will link to other documents and truly become endless. It is possible that no two readers will ever read the same text, even before the Freedom Web becomes part of a larger web. He or she reads a slightly different text. Hypertext, with its choices, then, offers more opportunities to explore multi-linear text, but it does not truly alter the reading process. The kind of thinking that happens during the creation of hypertext webs is really just good thinking that interconnects one concept with another.
Students can make webs without the use of computers.
One way to do this is to use a large wall. Use highlighters and string to show the links. Throughout the year we will add to the Freedom Web. As students discover other issues that remind them of Rita Dove's poem, they will enlarge the web and continue to make it more complex and dimensional. I would like to see students write their own poetry and add it to the web.