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This article is about how repetition is effective in places like the business world.

The website covers up to date design principles.

the tech republic is a blog covering effective design principles

"But digital technologies also have made it easy to "write" in all sorts of new ways. We can use more modes and resources, such as image, sound and video. We can remix the work of others -- with and without permission -- and share what we create more easily than ever before. And people do, all the time, and for all sorts of compelling reasons." This link explains the uses and importance of digital writing and why it matters in education -- correlation to the Jenkins reading.

Summary: Expresses the importance of Digital Writing. Digital writing is collaborative and coordinated must have technology in order for it to exist. DW: a written form of expression that shapes success for individuals and groups

This article explains digital writing through an educators point of view. Saying that writing has been "radically transformed" due to technology. The educator, Jeff Grabill, also explains the meaning of digital writing in his words.

Remediation is used in music to refashion live versions of media. The live version is recreated and multiplied, creating a studio and synthesized final version of the product.

This website provided a great run down on the book Remediation and the theory behind it. It was a great supplement to the reading and really helped me further my understanding of it. Remediation is something that is constantly going on around us, and is very important to understand. It is the driving force for the progress of our media.

Talks about how to make a fan page and the automation tool that helps you with the page.

This is a fantastic resource because it refers to and combines several design fundamentals. Dots and points can have a lot to do with lines, implies or otherwise.

This tutorial describes how to use lines with Adobe Illustrator. I thought this was really interesting to see how he creates a graphic pattern just using lines.

This video gives a great discription of how to create a storyboard. I thought the man in the video did a great job of keeping my attention throughout the video.

This gives a brief and detailed idea of the rhetorical canons and ways to create your speech.

This video does a great job of discussing shape and value. I thought it was interesting to look at the beginning stages of a drawing and what to focus on first when you are creating something.

Although I haven't heard of the program used in this video I still thought the video was a good example of creating shape.

breaksdown symmetry into subcatorgories

Balance is concerned with the distribution of visual interest -- what is where in a composition. << This source gives further understanding for balance and shows how symmetry is related to it. 

Another article with more details and a more clear layout to understand different sections of balance within design.

A good video showing the basic principals of balance in design. The visual examples are very simple and expand somewhat upon the ideas in BoD

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Some more advanced principals of design that can be used to attract readers. This particular page goes over how elements in web page design can be put in balance to create greater (or lesser) impact to an audience.

The about.com page on balance in design.

I think this is a great resource because it caters directly to digital writing in that it is aimed at how balance works and can be achieved in web design. (10/14)

Talks about making effective posters as visual aids, I tied this into the information on Visual Hierarchy 

CONTRAST- one way to see if you have effectively used contrast is to create the design in a grey scale and see if the design still looks easy to read.

I really like this source because it shows examples of bad contrast beside examples of good contrast, with explanations. It is short and to the point.

Helps you understand good contrast in designs and mistake that are made in the attempt to contrasting

The OWL at Purdue, Purdue Online Writing Lab How to write email to different recipients, responding, continuing email conversation and more

Ch 7-BoD Flow This site illustrates the concept of visual movement of flow in web design. The picture shown on the page provides hands-on examples of visual elements through text blocks which create "flow."

CHAPTER 7:FLOW This site gives tons of examples of great flow in websites and I found it very helpful in brainstorming ideas for project 2.

This site has lots of great examples it critiques after a breif summary of flow.

This is a really good video about what new media is and what it means to us in general terms.

This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.

This man really displayed the importance of new media. He accurately defined the material and was extremely persuasive with his view on the critical nature of it.