ENGL307: Digital Writing

This video on you tube gives a couple of explanations and examples of positive and negative space. It helped me better understand the material because I was able to see the examples and hear the voiceover explain what the negative and positive space is.

This video on you tube gives a couple of explanations and examples of positive and negative space. It helped me better understand the material because I was able to see the examples and hear the voiceover explain what the negative and positive space is.

This website has been a great help to me. I am pretty learned in what the internet is all about and how to use it, but it is always very interesting to form knowledge of how exactly it was developed and put to use.

Dummies is always a go to!

School Website

This site gives an overview of what Cloud computing actually means to the user. This was helpful to me because nowadays everyone uses cloud computing and it also helped go in a little more detail than chapter 4 of The Computer: A Very Short Introduction

This website not only covers several aspects of Computer Imaging, it describes illusionary space and even gives a visual of the difference between illusionary and flat. Visuals always help me to better understand the material being taught.

This video is an interview describing Spychips, a book about RFID tags. This book goes into detail about RFID tags and gives a better description of what Chapter three of The Computer: A Very Short Introduction gave.

This article discusses in-depth detail the three pillars of persuasion ethos, logos and pathos used in Rhetoric. I found this article to be very informative and interesting.

This blog discusses the use of whitespace in web design. It gives very good insights into how whitespace should be used, and when it should not be used.

This article gives a description of how space can be used in web design. It then goes on to give some great examples of how it is used in popular websites.

This site shows you how to take a screenshot using windows, mac, iphone, and ipad... I thought that this was a very helpful tutorial. Typically I use screenshots when I'm trying to show something to our IT department so that I can show them what I see.

This page goes into depth about space as discussed in Chapter 3 and has more images so it is easier for me to see the positive/negative space for example.

While reading the first chapter I found it difficult to wrap my head around all of the ideas surrounding raster versus vector images. However, this video gave me a deeper understanding of the important differences between the two and cleared up my confusion.

I struggle with those as well; great use of this assignment to learn more!

Tile is a small object including an RFID as described in Chapter 3 of "The Computer." The advantages of these devices are easily understood, but privacy could be a concern, as well. As suggested by Ince, many individuals are uncomfortable with their personal locations can be monitored. Tile's ability to send your location to other Tile users could make some uncomfortable with the concept. As someone who misplaces my keys regularly, I am willing to take the privacy risk!

In Chapter 2 of "The Computer," Ince describes the Google comparing data with the CDC to track those who are googling symptoms and the spread of illness. I found that idea very interesting and found that tracking information here on the web.

I was very confused by the discussion of binary and memory in chapter 2 of "The Computer." I found this in depth article helpful in understanding the technical language.

Lots of different terms about computer and Internet