ENGL307: Digital Writing

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 source details immediacy, hypermediacy and remediation.

Blog that breaks down the important terms of this week's reading by Bolter and Grusin

This website helped me to better understand the definitions of immediacy, hypermedia, and remediation. It sort of broke down the terms a little bit better than in the reading for me.

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)

""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 is a video of a person talking about Michael Young who is the author of "The Rise of Meritocracy".

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

This video discusses the role of ICT in the class room

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)

"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)

Quick reference to emphasis in design.

about.com page on emphais

Goes beyond explaining emphasis and provides useful tips and ideas regarding the actual use of emphasis in varying levels of design. (Week 10, 11/30)

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

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.

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.

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 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.

This website provides some inspiring examples of typography being used effectively in web design. These examples are incredibly useful for anyone interested in designing a website because they show you how to properly utilize typography. Each of these examples chose the perfect type to build there website around and the typography really adds to the overall site.

The page is about how to create a proper web design using emphasis.

This website shows how a web designer can effectively develop emphasis in a web page. This web page can be used as an instruction guide for a web designer create emphasis in their web pages.

This website shows 18 different examples of websites that effectively use emphasis to make the color green pop out. This is done for stylistic and symbolic reasons for each of these various websites. I especially liked this because green happens to be my favorite color.