End of Term One

We finally finished our last presentation for the Communication class yesterday and we are going to have a week off so that we can rest our brain a little bit before the instance second term start. However, I had lots of recalls of this writing course while driving on the way home. One of them was “I want to put what I have thought of this class in words for this week’s blog”.

Write in web format

When I first started this class 3 months ago, I felt that why should we have a “Writing” class in a Web design program? But after 12 weeks of learning and studying in the Communication class, I now understand that it is important to learn the proper way to write and to communicate with other users online. It is crucial that online users sometimes ignore other’s writing and get annoyed by big chunck and unorganized content. Writing in a proper web format is the key to interact with other users.

What have I learned?

When writing for New Media, you must remember three principles. They are Orientation, Information, and Action.

• Orientation

First, you have to make sure what is your main point for the contents? Make
them clear by using headlines, blurbs, subheads and, captions.

• Information

Again, the information from your contents has to be accurate and clear.

• Action

Web is all about interaction. You want to make sure you have a
“positive attitude” to encourage other users to respond on your content,
and a “you attitude” to show you are writing for the users’ needs.

See you again

It has been a busy but substantial first term studying in the BCIT. Overall I had experienced a tremendous curriculum with excellent instructors for the last three months. I am not sure am I still going to update my blog entries every week in the coming future, but I’ll definitely provide my blog whenever I have a thought or comment on Lakers or basketball. I am glad that I finally have people respond and leave me comments on my blogs.

Even though people say it is going to be tougher and tougher for rest of the terms, I am still looking forward to them.