September 27

The most challenging things about reading about these innovative thinkers is understanding their new and complex ways of thinking. In their time period, what they were inventing was extraordinary and necessary to advance the technological world for future generations. It set the foundation for methods of communications that included shortened and sped up the process of messages. In 2013, it's completely unnecessary that we learn the methods that they used to communicate. The telegraph is long gone and we have the ease of sending someone a message straight from our fingertips within a matter of seconds. The complexity of delivering a message at a fast pace with little resources to work with is something we will never understand. Boole was said to be a "free-thinking mathematician." He saw the relationship between language and letters to signs and symbols. He changed long story problems in math to a simple equation, mixing letters and numbers. Since generations long after Boole's existence have lived with these equations since their teachings of math began, thinking about how they woud similarly inventsomething with so much meaning and existence seems impossible. He, along with some of the other names that will be mentioned later, are essentially creating a new language. In Russell's studies of finding perfections in logic and mathematics with symbols, formulas, proofs, and axioms, he sort of became obsessed with paradoxes. The more him and Whitehead, his partner, tried to perfect them, the more paradoxes came up. In his time, there were new theories he wanted to solve. A few centuries later, in the 21st to be exact, we have accepted paradoxes and can live with them. Although frustrating, the urge to find an answer one way or another isn't booming. One of the short cut paradoxes he mentions is the sentence, "This sentence is false." Due to the wording, it can not be true nor false. [Grode] was going to kill Russell's dream of a perfect loyal system. He was going to show that the paradoxes were no _________, they were fundamental. With his studies in this, he concluded that numbers were so flexible, calling it "expressive power," and that's what gave it its incompleteness.

Usability Testing

Usability questions & Feedback:

1. Was the page informative?
Feedback: Yes.
2. Was it easy to navigate?
Feedback: Yes, good transitions and navigation bar is clear and easy to explain.
3. Is the purpose of this site clear?
Feedback: Clear- for photography
4. Are there any problems with the color scheme?
Feedback: No- Colors contrast well.
5. How well did the layout work with the purpose?
Feedback: Layout was organized, but the fading out of pictures when you mouse over them didn't work well.
6. What was the most difficult aspect of the website?
Feedback: Mouse over effect mentioned in question five, and the contact page's writing was difficult to read.

Blog Post 10

There were two points that i don't plan on following.

The first tip that i don't intend on following is the logo placement. I think that generally putting it at the top lefthand corner of your page is good, but I always want to center mine. I think that the most important thing is the visibility of it, so depending on how bold or eye catching it is the placement doesn't matter as much.

Next is the tagline. I personally don't always like using taglines unless they're really good and catchy. If an about me or description page is on the webpage, the tagline is unnecessary.

My two favorite websites were the following:

http://www.toby-powell.co.uk/

and

http://www.pedrolamin.com.br/2008/

These two websites have unique navigation. They are very memorable and have a unique way of going from link to link. To do these things I would probably have to learn flash and gain a great amount of creativity. Coming up with the ideas, however, would be much easier than learning how to put it all together in my opinion.

Project 3 Proposal

For my third project I am going to talk about the linguistic mode, and how I began reading and stuck with it. My great grandma and I have bonded greatly over the years due to Jane Austen books, so I will talk about those. I also want to talk about the books that my mom and dad would read me when I was a child. I feel as if a lot of relationships in my life have become stronger due to common interest in books, and this is probably going to be my main subject of my literacy narrative.

Blog Post 6

Assignment 1:

http://www.jayinslee.com/home

What is your definition of “credible” in relation to your project goals?
Although the author is clearly not Jay Inslee, the bottom of the page has the following statement: "Paid for by Jay Inslee for Washington (D)." By reading this, you know that he has reviewed, and supports, the page. The information and facts on his own website are approved by him.
What is the purpose of your source? The purpose of this source is to allow the audience to get to know Jay Inslee. While it is biased, it's expected- he's not going to have considerate commentary about the person he is running against. It is mostly to understand his perspective and what he is trying to accomplish if he wins the election.
What info can you find about the text’s author/creator? There isn't much information on who created the site, it simply says that it was paid for by Jay Inslee. Assuming that he did not create the website, someone who knows him well must have since he approves everything on it.
Have you seen this author or organization referred to in any of your other sources? Yes, because he is in the news so frequently due to his attempt to win an election. I have seen this source in the citations on my other sources for him, which are advertisements to vote for him.
Is the information believable? The information on this website is believable. It is information about him and his politics.
What medium is the source in? The source has visual evidence (pictures and videos) as well as texts that give you information about him.
Are your sources diverse and inclusive? The information on his page is diverse. He has a variety of links that you can click on to learn more about him including a biography, his standpoint on issues, news about him, how to be involved, events he's partaking in, as well as his blog.


Since Rob McKenna has the same type of website, the same things can be said about his.

Assignment 2:


Assignment 3:
Since my sources and webpages will be frequently talked about in my webtext, I will have in text citations so the audience can easily find where I found my information, as well as a reference page that has all of my work in one place. They will be links so that they can easily be found.
Links for Jay Inslee advertisements:


Jay Inslee's Website
Jay Inslee for governor advertisement
Jay Inslee's job plan



Rob McKenna's website
Rob McKenna for governor advertisement
Rob McKenna on education

Post 5

• blog post 5: First, describe things you like and don't like about the sample webtexts. Second, describe how you plan to organize your own webtext
  

Dove Project: I loved the flow of this project. The text it gives you is very easy to read, and guides you exactly how the author intended. Each new slide and topic relates back to the previous one. This, I think, helps generate movement throughout her project, rather than having slides that are irrelevant to one another. If I were to change anything in this project, I would make a conclusion page. It ends without any finality, and jumps back to the starting screen.

Life-Based Web Comics: I didn't like this webtext as much as the first one. The text bubbles had too much in them, I think, so i started to lose interest in reading them all. You also had to go to another page that had the comics on them and they didn't give many examples while going through the presentation. They related back to them but it would be hard to keep five tabs open and switch through them while reading the text. When they did put in the analysis of the webpages, I liked how they formatted the example page and talked about the rhetorical situations that were used.


(Third link wasn't working)

Project two proposal

Step 1: I decided to look into Washington State's 2012 governor election. The two candidates are Jay Inslee (Democrat), and Rob McKenna (Republican). For this project I will be using the following websites and advertisements to rhetorically analyze each candidate's tactics.

1. Jay Inslee:
a) http://www.jayinslee.com/home
b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQhdM1GoROQ
c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAomJutm7L0&list=UUsDVG0KviIAgwx2Z49DopUQ&index=2&feature=plcp

2. Rob McKenna
a) http://www.robmckenna.org/
b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF2Jatumaag&feature=plcp
c) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo0dG_6uIDE&feature=plcp