ENGL307: Digital Writing

The most important forms of new media are, according to Manovich, database and navigable space.

simplified explanation of Creative Commons and breakdown of the six international licenses

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.

"To better understand the topic of Copyright and Fair Use, and the special provisions that have been made for educational uses, I combed through a lot of materials that our professor had provided." This is a great source without extra bulk. 

"This may seem obvious, but judging by the notices we have received, many teachers (and especially students) are under the impression that if it is on the web, then it is up for grabs." This is a very informal, but interesting document regarding copyright, fair use and creative commons. 

"The word culture has many different meanings.  For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature, music, art, and food." To understand how new media and technology connect to culture, we must understand what culture is. This is a great resource!

Quick reference to remediation, immediacy, hypermediacy and mediation with definitions and examples.

Definition of Remediation, Immediacy, Hypermediacy

This source compares and contrasts immediacy and hypermediacy.

A little summary of The Language of New Media

Explaination of what is digitization

Once you learn exactly why good design is CRAP, then you, too, will see vast improvements in your designs as well.

For anyone who has not used newbie if you can not figure out something digital check here first there are tons of user generate tutorials to help you out.

For beginning website design newbie is a great tool for any form of digital mediums.

COPYRIGHT--YOUTUBE This website detailed youtube's policy on copyright, what it is, and how to avoid it. I thought this was very helpful in explaining copyright since everyone uses Youtube these days.

How lines, points, form, color, pattern, and more are use to carry different messages to reader

Ch 3 BOD- Contrast This site talks about contrast form a web designer's perspective. It breaks down contrast into elements of size, classification, color, cases,style and decoration, weight and space.

BoD Chapter 1: This page lists 21 formatting characteristics that are based on/ affected by your target audience. As chapter 1 states, deciding who your audience is and knowing about their demographics is one of the first steps in web design.

This page will help me with Project #1 because it informs me on how to write instructions specifically on the web. It contains a lot of great information, including why knowing your audience is important, how to remain brief but be exact, how to select appropriate wording, and how to perfect the visual appeal of the instructions.

Chapter 3: Tying into contrast with color -- a series of links to check the accessibility of your website and make sure the contrast is appropriate/functional.

Chapter Three: Very in depth analysis of contrast in web design that also applies to contrast in other forms of design and publication.

A web design is made of many different elements, each having varying levels of importance and some demanding prominence over others. << more detailed information on the importance of contrast.

Contrast types descriptions and alot of good examples of each type of contrast

This video goes into how to use contrast! It was very informational (may take awhile to download)

CONTRAST-One thing I learned from this site is that colors on the opposite sides of the color wheel create the best contrast

Gives instructions on how to make a flyer that  gets attention! Very informational once again!!