No saves cuanto te necesito..
Te nesesito para no llorar sola por las noches
Para que susurres palabras de amor a mi oido.
Nesesito del calor de tu cuerpo,
de la compania de tu silencio, al igual
como nesesito escuchar tu vos tus risas.
El saver que no camino sola y el poder compartir mi vida contigo.
Ke onda mi amiguis presiosa! ^_^ <3
The following is a link to Screencast.com where you will find the two video instruction manuals:
http://www.screencast.com/users/Nrubio21
The videos are called, “instruction_manual_video_ 1,” and “instruction_manual_video_2.”
_Technical Communication in the 21st Century: Chapter12: E-mail, E-Messages, and Memos_
It is very easy to send e-mail messages and people often forget the basics, which is why Ch. 12 reminds us,”Writing should always be grammatically, mechanically, and factually correct, even in casual correspondence with colleagues” (Dorbin, p.335).
HW# 3 required us to link the readings from ch.12 on _Technical Communication in the 21st Century_ (TC in 21st Century) to that of the _Handbook of Technical Writing_ (HTW).
In the HTW, we can find information on *E-mails* (p. 162) and related to it *Correspondence* ( p. 102), as well as some good things to know when it comes to the *audience* ( p. 420. Audience is important to consider in all parts of communication especially in mass messages, because like TC in 21st Century explains e-mails are not necessarily private.
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_Technical Communication in the 21st Century: Ch. 23: Presentations_
Presentations, like almost all other forms of communication, are crucial for most workplace environments. Ch. 23 reminds us that presentations come in different forms, one which we may or may not consider as a presentations are the informal presentations, because they can be spontaneous and to one or two individuals, for example talking with your boss about an idea you have.
HW# 4 asks us to relate ch. 23 in TC in 21st Century to information in the HTW.
The HTW, provides in formation on *Listening* (p.307), *Meetings*( p.323), and *Presentations*( p.391).
The HTW contrary to TC in 21st Century gives their readers important tips on not only presenting but also listening. Listening is important not only for the audience but also for the speaker in a presentation. Most often, toward the end of the presentation, the speaker should be open to questions from the audience and not only should speakers know how to speak but to listen and respond properly.
Meetings are in a way related to presentations because depending on the formality of a meeting, a formal meeting will require lots of the characteristics of a presentation. For instance, visuals, some level of presentation of the problem or agenda on the meeting and who will conduct the meeting. Lastly, meetings also require effective listening because in order to have effective communication there also has to be effective listening on both the speaker and the audience.
Unlike the TC in 21st Century, the HTW provides an outline more specific and concise on the how-to’s of presentations. It covers identifying the purpose, knowing you audience, gathering information, guides on how to structure the presentation, how to incorporate visuals, and finally how to effectively voice your presentation.
Ch.9:Layout and Design Analysis on facebook.com
Overall, I like the look of the website. It is defiantly aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Of course, the first thing that catches your eye is the image because it is larger, but also the dark blue band at the top of the page is an example of Contrast where you can find links to navigate to the main parts of the website and of your profile.
The background for boxes used in this website are usually light colors to allow for the text on top of them to stand out. They us dark text in light boxes and light text in dark boxes.
There is Duplication / Repetition and consistency in the links that this website provides, because they are all white. There is also variation. The texts for the titles have different sizes depending on their importance, as well as, a variation of color.
I would also like to comment on is the repetition that the site uses when adding new information. For example the wall is constantly updated and the website offers with every update an image, a title, a description, and links to respond to each update.
There’s also a variation in the flow of the information. For example the columns guide the reader downward on the page, but also the text has a left justification guiding readers left to right which is an example of Alingment.
I also like the choice of colors, cool blue colors. This choice of colors give the website a level of effectiveness, because users of this particular website are intended to spend a lot of time in it and warmer colors would call too much attention to the eye making it tired.
The use of white space rests the eyes from over crowdiness and it helps chunks information according to there relation.
And lastly, Proximity, an example of proximity is found on the bottom of the Profile image because you can find a link there that allows you to see the other pictures the user may have.
Link to “When I get sick” from Graphjam.com: http://graphjam.com/2010/02/19/funny-graphs-get-sick/#comment-99061
Analysis
Communicating to readers: The author of this graph probably wanted to emphasize, hers or his frustration of the times when she or he get’s sick.
Type of graph: This graph is a simple bar graph.
Bar graphs are generally used to emphasize quantity and use numeric information. However the user emphasizes quantity with a descriptive word rather than using numbers. This can depiction of information is inaccurate and can be confusing to non-native speakers because of the use of slang. Also, for every situation the bar is represented by the same colors which make it seem as thought they are the same categories.
The information provided is also a misrepresentation of information because there is an extra category “Swine flue outbreak” in the “Time I get It” category making the response for “On Vacation” appear larger in quantity than all the rest.
Lastly, the use of slang also make the graph unprofessional and unreliable; an apparent t joke.
Project 1 was to write instruction manuals on four activities form Google Docs.
For the purpose of further experimenting with this website. I have not only written manuals, but will use it as a tool to let you access the manuals I have written.
HW#4 asked us to post Project 1 in our blog and I found that using Google Docs and posting a link to it and the document was the best choice for this project.
Link to Instruction manuals via Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/#all
Let me know if there are any problems with this link.
Thank you.
The readings:
The readings for Deadline 3 included transnational communication, organization and drafting, and Technical instructions.
The elements discussed about transnational communication focused on achieving effective and ethically responsible communication with other countries. By ethically responsible I mean avoiding stereotypes which is both ethical and responsible when it comes to respecting other cultures. As for the other two chapters, they focused on expanding on the tools and giving guidance for organizing and drafting in general and specific to instructions.
Resources:
When looking for resources for these reading I chose to look at some examples that the book had provided and it most definitely helped me better understand the importance of effective communication world wide. The one that most called my attention was that of the UNESCO- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization because it’s development begin as en effort to educate people and prevent world wars to happen again. This parenthesizes the importance communication, but also the importance of communicating respectfully and with prior knowledge and respect for their believes.
Projects:
Creating an outline for the projects helped me find out what was lacking. It motivated me to seek for additional input and/or clarifications of the assignment at hand. Also, it gave me a clear path as to what I had to do.
The following is a link to my reply to Adele’s blog:
http://lintontwc301.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/d3-h5-project-one-outline/#comment-8
Project 2:
Use Jing to shoot 2 screencapture videos of the instructions for project 1.
First create a storyboard using Powerpoint or Google Presentation that will help you and you will read off when doing your video.
Access google docs at:
http://www.google.com/
Sign in with your personal log in name and password or click the “Get Started” button in the lower right hand corner of the webpage and rovide requested information.
Creating a new (Document):
Once in your “Home” page (Provide image of home page) Click on “Create New” button on the upper left-hand corner of the page allowing you to see the several options. Click on “Document” icon.
Tools:
(Provide image of the opened page)
Identify each link and define it’s purpose.
General (what is visible) to Specific (what is under each link)
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Go through same basic procedure with the other 3 activities.
