Category: Topic 4: Technology
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Making Your Work Look Pretty
Deep dive into the different elements of document design. Description of the CRAP acronym and modes of communication. Using both will better your work.
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Technology Affects Productivity
The first article made me realize that technology is a big issue within the classroom environment. The second article, the author taught me something new.
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A Little Pizzazz
Two pieces articulating how to improve ones writing. It starts with yourself and from there the author can understand their audience.
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Between Multimodality and Document Design
Connecting my two loves, writing and drawing, isn’t such a large gap that I have to bridge, and it’s always fun to find how they can support each other.
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Week 12: The impact design in texts
Though design is often associated with graphics, document design is equally important. Utilizing effective design in texts broadens its impact.
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Juggling Social Media and Multitasking can be a great Circus Act or a Cognitive Disaster.
Bradberry and Amicucci express the great ways to utilize social media and warnings on not juggling much to avoid negative cognitive effects.
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Multitasking on your phone ?
believe that multitasking is ok as long as you can actually be productive. In the article by Travis Bradberry he explains to us how multitasking
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Stagnation and Writing: Can We Fix It, Please?
In which yours truly throws a bit of a tantrum over how writing gets stuck in specific formats and the way it kills creativity.
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Social Media
The two main themes would be engagement, audience awareness, But audience awareness is important because listening is key to growing.
