TWC301: Multimedia Writing

this website goes over what a copyright is, who can claim a copyright, basically everything that you ever wanted to know about what a copyright entitles this website will give you all that information.  

Of the top ten methods listed, I believe that creating a common, shared team goal, and promoting interdependency are the two most valuable methods to work as a cohesive group. This page gives many details about each method that can improve teamwork and the ultimate project that the team is working on.

Demonstrates when the use of copywrited material is okay to use.

Good website it gives some uses that are fair uses like in news reporting, research and scholarship, nonprofit educational uses and parody. It also has 5 rules of when is a use a fair use.

This website is very helpful and lists uses that are generally considered to be fair use. These uses include: criticism/comment, news reporting, research/scholarship, non-profit organizations, and parody. In addition to these, there are rules listed to deem if a use if legally "fair use".

This is the actual creative commons website, and their tutorial of what the license is and the importance of it. It talks about the "layers" of the licenses. The website says that the license will help give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions an easy way to give copyright permissions to their creative work. I would recommend checking this website out if you are interested in getting a license.

One of the more important things that I got out of reading Part One is the importance of a Team charter. This website just elaborates a little more on what goes into each of the sections in the team charter.

This site is great. Talk about the rules and gives explanations that I easily can follow through and understand.

Not all of this website had to do with what we read about in Part 1. However, what I found important was that it mentioned the importance of a project manager.It also discussed that meetings were important and presented different ways of non-verbal communication with our team such as emails.

This website gives good information on how to use teamwork in the workplace. It talks about developing the strengths of individuals, making relationships and friendships, and ecouraging the performance to flow. It also gives factors that you should go by to maintain good teamwork throughout the workplace.

Includes a "Categories of Works" section discussion the types of works covered by copyright, such as literary works, musical and dramatic works, pantomimes and choreography, pictorial and graphic works, sculptures, films and other audiovisual works, sound recordings, and finally architectural works. Copyrighted works can fall into more than one category (a play is both a literary and dramatic work, for example) and the list is not exhaustive. A work that doesn't seem to fit into any of these categories could still be covered by copyright if it is "an original work of authorship." The chapter then covers each category in more detail. Literature, for example, is defined not just as novels and plays but also movie scripts, letters, email messages, blogs, computer programs, and even souvenir T-shirt messages. It also doesn't have to be tangible; a short story doesn't need to be published in physical format to be copyrighted.

If you need some simple ideas of how to improve your wordpress blog, here they are. 10 great recommended plug-ins with descriptions of how they will effect your blog.

Repetition 101. Here are some advantages, disadvantages and examples of how to look for it/use it.

This website offers suggestions made by actual students on "surviving" and "thriving" in a group project environment. One student reiterates Team Writing by suggesting the use of a team charter. A "kick-out" clause is included here, which clear states the consequences if someone does not attend meetings or does his or her work. Other students bring up being open-minded about criticism from other team members and listening to their advice. However, this site recommends assigning roles based on the members' strengths, not on what they would like to learn. I suppose it depends on the deadline and complexity of the project.

My favorite of my choices for the week. This is a great step by step guide with examples and reinforcement of the weekly chapter in the text. The writer definitely knows how to teach the audience the how to of alignment.

example of good layout alignment, use of gridlines.

This website was a good supplement to the understanding of alignment because it broke it down, even so far as to talk about how as humans we value alignment, it makes us feel comfortable. It gives great examples of the different types of alignment you can use and gives rules of thumb like finding a strong element on the page to align something against.

This site gives examples of different ways to align your text to make it the most beneficial to reading. Aligning the text on all the same edge makes it easier for the eye to read. Also, adding a bold edge to it in order to allow the text to be aligned to that.

Good visual examples and explanations

This website had very clear information reguarding alignment. It showed great examples in websites of the alignment that was used. It shares some information about grids and why they are useful when creating webpages.

This is a great page because it talks about how and alignment work. In addition, it also goes into how the strongest elements of alignment work.

Good explanation on creating associations with visual elements.

Great visual examples and explanations of what makes for good design elements.

This website begins with a description of the steps in the design process. It covers all of the ones that were also in our textbook such as analyzing audience, determining purpose of message, choosing the right format and layout. There were only four principles covered in this website which were those of balance, emphasis, rhythm which we can consider as flow, and unity which we can consider to be alignment. -What i liked about this website is that it offered explanations about the elements of design such as lines, shapes, and colors. I liked that it gave us the table on the "Psychology of color". It will be very useful especially when we think about the objective and audience of the message.

This website provided useful tips about the elements of design such as color, lines, and shapes that will be helpful when beginning to design. It will also help when considering who your target audience is and what the objective is!

 Although visually pretty dry, has a pretty comprehensive treatment of design basics.

Good website because it gives 10 collaboration ideas and i think that can be very helpful when working with our groups.

BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES WITH DEBBIE HODGE: FLOW I like how this website applies the principal of flow to scrapbooking. It has a great visual and very simple explination of flow.

I really like this article because it discusses flow from a scrapbooking perspective. I love scrapbooking and found this article to be very helpful in regards to graphic design as well. 

It gives good definiton of what visual flow is and it gives directions on how to create a flow on your scrapbook page. It also has other examples of flow and good images. Also explains visual triangle and sequence.