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Homework, WordPress: A more organizational approach to improving your WordPress, including a focus on the calendar feature, pre-publishing, custom statuses, editing and notifications. All of the changes directly relate to making the WordPress more easily accessible and easier to navigate. The focus is more-so on the functionality of the aesthetic than just the aesthetic itself, which makes the WordPress both easy to follow the flow of and interesting to look at.

Homework, Netiquette: A video addressing various forum etiquette in a humorous an instructional manner. The foum nanny covers many aspects of forum netiquette, including tips such as "using the search feature".

Homework, Netiquette: An entire website dedicated entirely to understanding cyber safety and proper netiquette. The website includes the understanding of net lingo, neutrality, gaming and videos online.

Homework, WordPress: A list of websites with numerous codes to help improve your WordPress. They range from codes to improve your theme, make thumbnails, show multimedia on the blog, etc. It also has numerous tips on website design as well.

Remediation: An example of remediation, done by a student, focusing on Space Invaders. Very fun and helps to accompany the idea of the text; one media being represented through another, as well as the response of traditional media in an attempt to challenge new or newer media.

Formal Report: A Powerpoint presentation addressing all parts of constructing a formal report, from beginning to end, including references. Very in depth, while managing to keep strictly to the point.

This is the URL to my application supporting The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien for our second project...this is just a draft. I look forward to all of your feedback! I used Diigo to share it because for some reason this particular application builder was making it difficult to share on Wordpress, so I am making this work.

This blog post talks about what this particular person believes achieves "flow" in a website and the benefits of having a website that flows very nicely. He even provides an example of a website that he did in the blog.

Website with various fonts that you could use to emphasize a video, slideshow, flyer, etc, with. User-friendly and free!

This is a rather lengthy article, but it provides good insight into why we write instructions and how to effectively do so. I think this article will help me with the project because I like thinking about the cognitive processes behind reading what is writtena nd I hope to incorporate some of the article's information into the project.

Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: A Youtube video assessing the impact of fair use and its cultural impact -- specifically, the impact of art upon other artists and how referencing and sometimes even imitating other works of art has helped shape art and culture as a whole. The video shows various examples of artworks that have used each other as references and is a good way to understand the importance behind this.

FLOW. This page talks specifically about the concept of flow and how designers can optimize it in their websites. I like this site because of the fact that it cites actual research done and how it clearly breaks down what designers need to do in order to achieve flow. 

I know I already pushed one to the group but this site is another one that I found really really helpful. It gives simplistic definitions and examples that are easy for anyone to understand.

REPETITION. This website gives a lot of great pointers about repetition and how it makes various media look better when properly employed.