ENGL 303: Multimedia Writing

This website is about funny or horrible experiences people have had that they share with anyone who views the site.

A website compiling the "Largest List of Text Message Shorthand." I found this interesting because i think this is one example of how writing is turning into a vastly abbreviated medium.

Read the Remix article on mash-up DJ, Girl Talk. On the heels of releasing his latest release Night Ripper, the mixtape lover goes shopping for everything from random cassette tapes to mainstream CDs at Gramaphone Records in Chicago.

This is a website in Blog format that follows interesting design projects, specific to my interests - Jessica Center

This is a online trade publication that I check regularly in my field of design - Jessica Center

What are the conditions of writing/ speech/word processing that open a critical stance on the question of global culture? This is one of the central questions that this article explores in relation to the new global media and culture given to us by technology.

An interesting article about the generational shift to new technology around 2005 and the innovative thinking that accompanied the shift.

This article addresses the differences between the types of writing students do in the classroom and the writing they complete outside the classroom, including text messages, e-mails, and facebook posts. The article further explains how teachers should take advantage of students' interests in online writing to help encourage enthusiasm for classroom writing as well.

This article offers an interesting description if the evolution of text messaging and how it has become increasingly beneficial. The article also describes how the structure of text messaging has changed with the development of more advanced cell phones.

American Zoetrope, brainchild of Francis Ford Coppola, is an online community dedicated to workshopping many forms of art, ranging from short stories to songwriting to costume design. Members are required to provide constructive feedback on a certain number of works before they can post their own works on the site.

A site that aggregates many film reviews into a single percentage, determining whether a film is "rotten" or "fresh."

A web page dedicated to the sort of tattoos people have, and why they chose those images.

A study of one style of web-based literature, and how it contrasts with the work that it is based on.

An article that looks at what Fan Fiction can offer an author creatively and offers some tips and tricks as to how to get started.

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

An online computer dictionary and Internet search engine for Internet terms and technical support.

This article studied how students, professors, and graduate instructors feel about using multimedia in large lecture halls. Over half of the students reported that multimedia in the classroom stimulated their interest in the subject. This article explains how more and more technology/multimedia is being used to teach students.

The Sims 3 website forum page

The Sims 3 Expansion pack press release

Nature.Net Forums provides users with a list of forums to post images, questions, and information to get feedback about a flora or fauna of interest.