Showing posts with label 2-310. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2-310. Show all posts

Friday, June 7, 2013

2-310 - The History of Typography

2-310,
When we are typing we are entering our text using a particular font, or style of writing. But fonts aren't just fonts, they are "typography" or the art or technique of arranging type in order to make language visible.

Before computers there were typewriters and before that, handwriting. In order to make writing universally legible there needed to be typography.

Friday, May 17, 2013

2-310 - Twitter


Students of class 2-310,
Last week we did our first lesson about Twitter and how to post a tweet. Today we did a quick review.

I would like you to comment with answers to a few questions. This is a bit of a quiz on some of the terms we learned last week as well as a personal reflection.

Here are the questions (the first 6 are short answer, the last 2 are extended response)...