I really enjoy Avril’s blog layout, and its non linear style. It makes me reflect on my blog, which follows one path, and shows just how ingrained in me are chronology, linearity and sequences as a form of processing and… Continue Reading
As far as I have gathered, hypertext is designed to mimic the way that we think, and is designed to imitate a conversational interaction between people. It is true that we don’t think linearly, in that we don’t know the… Continue Reading
Why do people crowd the train doors creating human walls and leave the aisles free? Today I missed a train because people wouldn’t move down. I felt as though they looked at me through the closing gap and revelled in… Continue Reading
When I was in grade 6, my class sat a literacy test at the beginning of the year. After the test, myself and about 4 others were taken aside and told we had a reading age of a 16 year… Continue Reading
Well, since you asked… Does the ability to write using a computer rather than hand writing something, affect the content produced? We’re able to share our personal thoughts instantly with a much larger audience than we could without the Internet.… Continue Reading
I enjoyed reading Haisi’s post about what gives somebody authority on the internet. I agree that we all have the ability to be “authors” on the internet, through contributing to others’ content, linking out to various places on the internet… Continue Reading
Last week I learnt about IFTTT from the font of knowledge about all things digital – it seems – Elliot. So the idea behind IFTTT is to streamline wherever you can. It’s about creating ‘recipes’ by linking certain sites one… Continue Reading
“What you write down for your own use should always be available from a screen, not randomly lost and buried. Birthdays; appointments; possibilities to be kept track of…” Ted, in choosing this quote it’s clear to see I’ve missed the… Continue Reading
After today’s symposium, my understanding of what it means to be “network literate” has developed. While it is about giving as much as we take, and referencing from where we take, it is far deeper than just this. It is… Continue Reading