Online Communication

QUESTIONS: How do readers read on the web? What are the "three S's"? What should you avoid to keep content scannable? What does good writing consist of? Which would you say is the most important?

1.You scan over the webpage instead of reading it entirely.
2.The three s's are scannable, short, and segmented.
3.Extensive use of hard-to-read italics, mixing too many fonts, and using underlines for anything except links.
4.Good writing should be written with a goal in mind, be clear, concisely, and consistently ,should have examples and details.
5.I think that the most important is to try to 3.You should avoid keep the readers attention by writing engagingly, and should be interesting.

Writing for the Web : Usability of Websites for teenagers

This topic is about teenagers on the web.When using the web teenagers tend to have less of a success rate. They are often get bored and move on to the next site. What teenagers want is for a site to be nice and simple. They want there to be good content such as interactive content. Teens do not want to have to read a bunch of text and words. Teens like to have cool looking graphics. So when it comes to a website for teens it should be short, simple, and have cool graphics.

Name of Site:Monroe Public Schools Date: 4/17/09

URL:http://www.monroe.wednet.edu/

Time: 12:40 p.m.

MLA Citation:1999-2009.Personal Computer services. 4/17/09.http://www.monroe.wednet.edu/

Design

Navigability is good. Links are clearly labeled.
Navigability is good and the links are clearly labeled. they are easy to access.

Can move from page to page easily
This website allows you to move form page to page easily and have easy access.

This site offers interactivity. The visitor engages

with the site.
Yes, you are able to engage with the site.it does offer interactivity.

This site uses appropriate page format.

Pages are not inordinately long.
The page format is okay. The pages are a little long.

Can easily find information.
Yes, this site allows you to find information easily.It is a good source to find the information.

This site is aesthetically appealing.

Good use of graphics and color.
This site is nice and simple but does not have much color, and is not that appealing.

This site is aesthetically courteous.
Text and background colors do not clash
This site does not clash colors and is courteous. The colors go together good.

Content

Has a proper title.
This site has a proper title.I The title tells what the web page is going to be about.

Additional resource links are included.
There are additional links included. There are many links you can click onto and go to them.

Information is useful.

the information is very useful. It has to do with finding out more about the school

Rich content and will likely be revisited.

Yes, they most likely will be revisited. This content will help you learn more about Monroe.

How this website compares in content to

similar websites.

This website is similar to many school websites. It has all the information about the school you need and additional links.

Technical Elements

All links work.

All the links work.

Thumbnail graphics used.

yes, There are thumbnails used. They are pictures of their students.

Graphics download quickly.

yes the pictures do download quickly. you are able to get them quickly.

Alternative text page is offered when heavy graphics or

frames are used.

No there is no text. the picture has no writing or information about it.

Image links and image maps

have a text alternative.

Not really. There are only a few image links

Can see meaningful information within 30 sec.

Yes, you can see information in 30 seconds. The information is loaded quickly.

Credibility

Contact person is stated with their e-mail address.

There are people stated. There is only one email address listed though.

Links have been kept current.

States when this page was last updated.

I do not know if the dates have been updated. There is no date stated.

Resource links used to develop

content are included.

Yes there are resource links included. They are ones used to develop content.

States the name of the host school or institution.

It does state the name. The name of the school is Monroe Public Schools

Tammy Payton. “Web Evaluation for Secondary Grades.” 13 Aug. 2007 <http://www.tammypayton.net/courses/print/rubric3.htm>.

MLA Citation for Web Sites.

Author. “Title of Article.” Title of Book. Date. Publisher. Date Found .

online researching

QUESTIONS: Who is the person? What did they do? When were they born, and when were they associated with your topic? Where were they from? Why is this person associated with your blog topic?

My topic that I chose for my blog is art. Someone that has contributed to my topic(art) is Pablo Picasso. Picasso was a famous artist who mainly painted in many styles, including Cubism and Expressionism. He also was a scupltor.He liked to add shape and deminsions to his paintings. Picasso was born on October 5, 1881, in Malaga, Spain. Picasso did art when he was young but became an artist around the 1900s, and started his career as an artist and sculpter. Pablo Picasso is associated with my topic because he is a famous artist and some of his painings are interesting and my topic is art.

Links:

http://www.artelino.com/articles/pablo_picasso.asp

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Artfolder/Pablo.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/facts-about-pablo-picasso.html

What is your general topic your blog will now focus on? Why is this topic important to you? How did you first learn about this topic? In 2 paragraphs, explain what your topic is about. Include as many details as possible.



My general topic is going to be art and the various types of arts.
Art is important to me because I like to draw and because i am a very creative person and someday i want to be an artist.
I first learned about his topic when at school when we stated to study the differnt forms of art and what art was.
My topic is of course about art. Art is a way to express yourself in many different ways. Art can come in many different forms.There are many different definitions of art but it can be simply defined as the way something is done or rather expressed , and is form and content.
There are various forms of art some of which are expressed by the famous artist such as Leonardo Da Vinci. Other forms of art may be simply expressed through those of which are not famous. Art come sin the form of sculptures of paintings or just a simple drawing form a young kid. The forms of art are really what you make it. Art is all around us and is in a constant state of change.

http://arthistory.about.com/cs/reference/f/what_is_art.htm

Web pages

http://animal.discovery.com/
This website is about all different animals. It tells you interesting facts about animals. It is based on the channel animal planet. Also it has different games you can play about animals, and videos.It is interesting because there are different links to different t.v. shows that you can look up and learn about.It also tells you about different animals in the news.

Question one: What is one of the top features on the website?
Question two: What is one of your favorite t.v. shows from the website?

http://www.thesports100.com/
This website is all about sports, It allows you to pick a sport and allows you to view stats of a team. It also has other sports website links that you can go to to see how a certain team is doing, and their rankings. It is interesting because it has the all different sports and not just one sport.It is actually a cool website because it tells you what you need to know if you like sports.

Question one: What is one sports website link that is on this website?
Question two:Do you think this website will be valuable to those who are interested in sports?

http://www.sparknotes.com/
this site is a resourceful site and helps you to look up different subjects in school. It helps you in different subjects like math and gives you practice problem. it has all different categories. I think it is valuable because if you need help on a book or something you can look up that book and it has notes and summaries. Also it has test prep that you can do, so if you need to study for a test.

Question one: Do you think this is a resourceful website?
Question two: What are one of the top ten weeks spark notes?

QUESTIONS: What is the URL for the Computer Techonoloyg Wiki? What Unit are we currently working on? When opening a new link, how do you open it in a new window? Where can you find what is required for a specific project? Do you have any questions about the Wiki? Is something about it unclear?


The computer technology wiki URL is http://stankoart.pbwiki.com

We are currently working on the Getting Started unit.

To open a new link in a new window you press ctrl+T and then put in the link in the URL space

To find what is required for a specific project you go to the website stankoart.pb.wiki.com then you scroll down to the getting started unit or whatever current unit you are on and then scroll to whatever day it is and that is where you will find the projects you need to do
I do not have any questions. Everything is clear to me