Post #2!
The "things people go to the site looking for" list, I feel is very accurate. When I was first starting college and using my own University's website, things like the campuses address, maps, application form and course lists were what I was looking for. I chose to look at the University of Oregon's website and although I like the websites visual mode, there are a few parts of the website that fall into the left side of the comic. They had alumni news, front and center on the page which turns me off from the page because I feel as though most people who go onto the website are not looking for alumni news. The audience is definitely accounted for because when you first go onto the website it has a close focus on new students. Also the page has sports on it which is very particular to the University of Oregon, seeing as it is a very "sports important" school.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Assignment One!
When reading about "multimedia" and "multimodal" for my DTC355 class, I decided that they are almost the same. In chapter one, multimodal is described as a combination of our everyday ways of communicating, for example, a picture with words on it. While multimedia and multimodal are closely related, multimedia only involves the media while multimodal can be used with everyday communications.
Response #1: Some linguistic choices I noticed were word choice and delivery. Using the word 'friends' when referring the the Japanese people showed that we do consider them friends and it led into the statement of how the United States will stand by them. That sentence was also an example about how the delivery of the statement was thoughtful. Although the statement made was short, it was to the point and got across that the United States were saddened by what happened and that they would stand by Japan.
Repsonse #2: The twitter profiles in figure 1.2 and 1.3 are great examples of visual mode. Some visual differences that you see between the two are the colors of the profiles. One is all light blue while the other has darker more contrasting colors. The twitter profile with the dark green and blue makes me feel as though they use twitter more for business while the light blue one makes me feel as though they use twitter for fun and enjoyment. I personally picked the template where you can upload a picture for the background, for which I chose to use a picture of a snake. It is kind of hipster, I guess. I have no real reason for choosing it, besides that I thought it was cool.
Response #3: While listening to the clip, some aural modal elements I heard were the ambient sound in the background, the speaker had a very soft an engaging tone to her voice, around half through the clip, the sound got louder. If there were to be an actual song like a country song in the background, I feel as though it would have been very distracting to what the clip was actually trying to get across. Although I did not care for the sounds that were in the background to begin with, they worked much better than a country or bluegrass song would have.
Response #4: When going on to WSU main page, my eye is immediatly drawn to the center of the page where there is three large changing pictures. It is very clean and layed out to make you look at the pictures but then there are links under the pictures that you can click on in order to access information about whatever you may need. If the information was swapped with the infortmation on the bottom, the page would not be as visually pleasing but the same information would get accross.
Response #5: I watched the Weekly Address All-Hands-On-Deck Response to the Drought video. Presdent Obama uses his hand gestures when making important points. His facial expressions stayed about the same the whole video, he looked as if he was concerned about the drought and that he realizes that helping people during this drought is very important. I find his gestural mode very effective. His facial expressions come across as though he in concerned for the people suffering and genuinely want to help them.
Response #1: Some linguistic choices I noticed were word choice and delivery. Using the word 'friends' when referring the the Japanese people showed that we do consider them friends and it led into the statement of how the United States will stand by them. That sentence was also an example about how the delivery of the statement was thoughtful. Although the statement made was short, it was to the point and got across that the United States were saddened by what happened and that they would stand by Japan.
Repsonse #2: The twitter profiles in figure 1.2 and 1.3 are great examples of visual mode. Some visual differences that you see between the two are the colors of the profiles. One is all light blue while the other has darker more contrasting colors. The twitter profile with the dark green and blue makes me feel as though they use twitter more for business while the light blue one makes me feel as though they use twitter for fun and enjoyment. I personally picked the template where you can upload a picture for the background, for which I chose to use a picture of a snake. It is kind of hipster, I guess. I have no real reason for choosing it, besides that I thought it was cool.
Response #3: While listening to the clip, some aural modal elements I heard were the ambient sound in the background, the speaker had a very soft an engaging tone to her voice, around half through the clip, the sound got louder. If there were to be an actual song like a country song in the background, I feel as though it would have been very distracting to what the clip was actually trying to get across. Although I did not care for the sounds that were in the background to begin with, they worked much better than a country or bluegrass song would have.
Response #4: When going on to WSU main page, my eye is immediatly drawn to the center of the page where there is three large changing pictures. It is very clean and layed out to make you look at the pictures but then there are links under the pictures that you can click on in order to access information about whatever you may need. If the information was swapped with the infortmation on the bottom, the page would not be as visually pleasing but the same information would get accross.
Response #5: I watched the Weekly Address All-Hands-On-Deck Response to the Drought video. Presdent Obama uses his hand gestures when making important points. His facial expressions stayed about the same the whole video, he looked as if he was concerned about the drought and that he realizes that helping people during this drought is very important. I find his gestural mode very effective. His facial expressions come across as though he in concerned for the people suffering and genuinely want to help them.
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