ENGL307: Digital Writing

Another great site for balance in design. This page gives visualizations, though, and can really help to learn the subject matter.

This photograph is an example of using color to provide emphasis, that is only the tiger is left with color in the image to allow the audience to focus on the tiger.

This video helps us further understand the ideas portrayed by Flew's article by discussing how technology has had an affect on work culture.

"Adding emphasis to your writing will help readers see your main ideas both within sentences as well as with in the entire essay. Em phasis and variety can be achieved through design as well as thr ough the positioning of words within the sentence."

I like this resource because it looks at style and emphasis from a more academic viewpoint. (Week 10, 11/30)

This is a website that gives additional explanation to different styles of art

This blog had many examples of elements of deign, including emphasis which was read about this week

I know the supplied reading was not linked, but I found this and I am pretty sure it is the same thing...or roughly close to it!

According to J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin their theory on the topic is the characteristics of new media and its continuous remediating media outlets such as television, radio, journalism and other old media. Remediation also spreads out and takes two different forms to explain it, such as immediacy and hypermediacy in its media form."

This website introduced me to several different tools that can help a web designer choose the proper typography for their website. I found these tools to be very interesting, innovative and useful. I would encourage anyone interested in web design to take a look at these tools as they could provide very interesting insights in the future.

This website provides a great summary of the book as well as an explanation of the ideas and theories within the book. It really helped me understand the idea of remediation and its importance in our world.

This website provided another perspective on the issue the reading discussed. Is there a solution for inequality?

I really like this resource because it goes beyond the what abstract is, might, or can be and delves into the actual processes involved in various abstract works. It provides a different angle to the topic. (Week 9, 11/30)

This website gave a really good example of immediacy, hypermediacy, and remediation. It was confusing for me to read about the three terms. Seeing the example provided on this website helped me to better understand the three.

This resource is sort of an aggregate of several resources. Each goes into and provides different perspectives of how typography can and is used. There is a lot of variance to each and I like all of the differentiation. (Week 11, 12/1)

While old, I like this resource for two reasons. It gives a snapshot of a problem that we are able to use and relate to today. We are able to see the sort of things they were thinking and how we have evolved or regressed. I also like how it is not just talking about the digital divide, but actually going in to "Where We Are" (or were in 2002). (12/10 Week 14)

This video discusses the role of ICT in the class room

""We have entered the knowledge society and everyone must have access to participate. The internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created. Governments must regard it as basic infrastructure, just like roads, waste and water." Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union"

This is a video discussing technology and the knowledge economy in the city of Waterloo.

This video defines the digital divide and what people are doing to make the digital divide better.

This website shows off some of the best examples of how typography can be used in web design. My favorite is the Evenglide Showroom image. I love the clean look of the type and the way it fits in perfectly with the image. The text does not take away anything from the image which is a difficult thing to accomplish. I have seen typography detract from images in the past, but this is a wonderful example of it adding to an image.