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ELA 4: Text Features of Digital Informational Texts 79 Views


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Today we're going to talk about the difference between digital informational texts and print informational texts. Like did you know that digital texts cannot be found in regular old books? Go ahead and try looking for them. We dare you.

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00:04

[Dino and Coop singing]

00:13

At first glance, print texts and digital texts might seem pretty similar. [Book next to a computer screen]

00:18

After all, they've both got text aids like titles and subtitles, and font styles like

00:22

bold and italics, as well as all sorts of non-text stuff, like photographs, illustrations, [The text aids being demonstrated]

00:26

charts, and maps.

00:28

However, when it comes to digital texts, there's often more than meets the eye. [Computer approaches a big eyeball]

00:32

Like laser cannons and… [Computer shooting a laser cannon]

00:35

…What?

00:36

There aren't laser cannons? [Stop sign appears]

00:38

…Man, what a letdown.

00:39

Okay, so what are the actual differences? [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

00:41

Well, the paragraphs in digital texts tend to be a bit shorter than those in print texts. [Two different paragraphs being measured by a tape measure]

00:46

This is partly because reading online generally requires a lot of scrolling, and the smaller [Someone scrolling on an iPad]

00:51

the chunks of information are, the easier they are to digest. [Chunks of text going into someones stomach]

00:53

Also, books don't have to compete with YouTube in the next tab, so better to keep things

00:58

short and sweet if you want your audience to stick around. [Person clicks onto a cat video]

01:01

One big tech innovation that digital texts sometimes have is hover text. [Dino pointing at a blackboard]

01:05

If you're reading a regular old book and you come across an unfamiliar word…

01:08

you'll have to walk all the way to a bookshelf to pull out one of those back-breakingly [Man walking in a library]

01:12

heavy dictionaries.

01:14

There's gotta be a better way, right? [Man is crushed by the dictionary]

01:16

That's where hover text comes in.

01:17

Sometimes a technical or advanced word is highlighted…

01:20

…and if you move your cursor over the highlighted word…

01:22

…then BOOM!

01:23

A little bit of text, containing either a definition or explanation of the term, pops [The definition appears]

01:27

up for you to read.

01:28

Digital text: it cares about your back.

01:30

Digital texts also have hyperlinks, which are links to other files or documents related [Coop pointing at a blackboard]

01:34

to the digital text.

01:35

They're often some mix of bold or underlined, which makes 'em stand out on the page. [Giant arrows pointing the a word]

01:40

We can see this in action on this page about kennels on the Denali National Park website….a

01:45

website we're sure you visit at least once a day.

01:47

Say we scroll down the page, to the bit that says: "Learn more about visiting Denali with [The hyperlink at the bottom of the page]

01:52

a pet."

01:53

Since that bit of text is in bold and underlined, we can tell it's probably a hyperlink, and

01:57

if we click on it…

01:58

…then what do you know, it leads us to another article that teaches us more about visiting [The hyperlink is clicked and the new page appears]

02:01

Denali with a pet!

02:03

With all these perks it's no wonder that digital texts are really catching on. [Evil looking computer saying bye to the book]

02:06

But that doesn't mean books are doomed! [The book explodes]

02:08

After all, it's still nice to have something to rest your laptop on. [Man with his laptop on a pile of books]

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