Friday, December 08, 2006. On Tuesday evening I attended the Dreamweaver 1 tutorial presented at College Library. Having already learned a lot about Dreamweaver through English 201 much of the class was repeat. It was helpful to relearn it since it had been awhile since we talked about the processes in English. There were quite a few new things that they presented as well. This was especially helpful because I had not started my final webpage yet and it gave me some new ideas. It is a great tool to use.

A blog from English 201 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tuesday, December 05, 2006. I just finished up the Dreamweaver. Class over at Helen C. Sunday, November 26, 2006. Last week on Monday we discussed Chapters 3 and 4 of Steven Johnson. We resumed our discussion of Chapter 3 from the previous week, talking about Alexa on the web in relation to the idea of emergence. Tuesday, November 21, 2006.

A Blog of my exploits in English 201. Sunday, December 03, 2006. For last week, we read a couple of articles written by prominent members in the field of rhetoric in composition. Each of these author writes in response to a question posed regarding their particular field of study.

Blogging for English 201 at University of Wisconsin Madison. Sunday, December 03, 2006. The class was about how to write basic code that can be seen in an internet browser. The code we wrote was inside of the notepad program that is commonly found on most computers in the accessories folder. The first idea the instructor said was important was nesting of code. This allows the user to write code in a simple format that is easy to read and go back to to make changes and add on.

Sunday, November 26, 2006. Tuesday, November 21, 2006. The slime mold example seems to fit that, however, I am unsure if that is just a special occurrence. I had another question after looking back over the reading.

Thursday, December 07, 2006. I elected to take the Dreamweaver 1 course to improve my basic knowledge of creating web pages in the program. For the most part the class was elementary but the instructor had some valuable design tips like ensuring that menus and page banners stay in the same orientation on each sub page to maintain a consistent feel to the website. Once the initial layout was complete we added some media to the page. By locating the desired image in the file browser we could drag and d.

Sunday, November 26, 2006. We discussed the differences between the two in class. One of my classmates described positive feedback as an amplified effect because it continues to be pushed further and further in one direction. This same classmate described negative feedback as a balancing effect because it is stabalized at one particular point. Wednesday, November 22, 2006. We are steadily learning how to think from the bottom up. What caused this change? .

Friday, December 15, 2006. Tuesday, November 28, 2006. We are finally done reading the giant pink booklet and have moved onto another set of readings in the book Emergence,. Friday, November 17, 2006.