Notes 29 Aug 2012

29 Aug 2012 Notes
What is Gestalt?  The mind’s ability to fill in negative space and make it mean something.  How parts are seen as a whole. Properties in common; similarities: color shape texture Abbreviated visual grammar: We communicate a lot visually, Rules defining the visual arrangement of text.  Create a verbal world to cause reactions in the people who read it.	Gestalt Laws and Design from chelsc
Gestalt Final Thesis   from Rede Ballard	Gestalt Principles of Design from Gayle Christopher
Discussion on gathering information How you gather information.  Critical thinking, analytical thinking. Analysis is breaking the whole into smaller parts, then breaking the smaller parts until a solution is found. "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
Discussion on Metaphor, Document design, and Typesetting Last class-reference to power horse. Power Horse tractors were steered with reins similar to a real horse
Talked about typewriters and how they create a single string of text. No random access.  All information is presented/created in linear fashion Object oriented design:  all attributes gathered in one place and controlling them.  Instead of recreating them over and over again, create a single type. CSS take care of the object oriented attributes of a piece of text.
Font is a specific existentiation of a specific type face.
Each font shares some characteristics in common with others.  Font characteristics are labeled and fonts are grouped according to shared characteristics.

Vertical spacing—Leading
horizontal spacing is kerning.

Adobe Glossary of Typographic Terms

Commentary on resumes
Skoda - Curriculum Vitae from weareflink on Vimeo.	My Visual Resume - Saad Ahmed Shaikh from Saad Ahmed Shaikh

Notes 27 Aug 2012

27 Aug 2012
Notes, 1st class

Class Information
Syllabus will be posted on Canvas. Came from the corporate world not a professional teacher. Learned the ropes by doing. Experience is the best teacher. Office in the main hallway of the LA building, LA 117a  . Reason to take this class—to open doors in the world Cell phones—turn them off Don’t leave class unless its an emergency/extenuating circumstance
Textbook We will choose a book and discuss its technical writing details Compare concrete text version vs. online version ISBN—09700973-1-x--paperback FAA was formed due to a crash between two airliners over the Grand Canyon	Books we voted on: Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book The design of everyday things Diffusion of innovations Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscription Amazon.com Widgets
The ability to write is essential to progress in your careers. The reason we write is to extend our brains so we can solve /sort out our problems. The analytical skills we learn in writing are the skills we use in thinking. Academic studies are intended to make better thinkers who make a difference in the world.
Discussion on First writing assignment: Resume' Say what you need to say and do it concisely in as few words as necessary to get the job done. Resumes are short and highly structured. They are a technical description of you.	Really Ugly Résumés from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee
Research Paper Assignment Write a series of solution papers for rebuilding civilization from a plane crash in a valley with everything you need as far as raw materials go. Daedalus Project.Survival and escape book.Think about some real world projects you would like to work on and bring them to class. Writing is about story. We are driven in our nature to forge communities The research paper will be a 60 page document collaborative document, 10,000 words of writing per team member. Keep it brief. Size. Graphic intensive, graphics take more time to create than text. If the document is short on size, it will be short on detail. Remission of execution.Stay up on the reading assignments, watch the due dates.	Assignment Read about Gestalt. What are its... Sets of rules or grammars. Gestalt used as our First assignment is a resume assignment. From 4310 Company/organization work at HR business guide for a company. Monday there is no school.
Buy these books Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscription

Discussion on Metaphor Power horse tractor—no steering wheel—metaphor is essential always broken into two parts, use metaphor to expand our known world into a larger world Control interface, controlled with reins. Word processor –typewriter—allows us to use object oriented design to manage the writing process more efficiently.
Technical Discussion on using Styles in Word: Print layout view if I go over to draft view if I go toward preferences go to the orb on a windows machine go to options advanced settings style area width set greater than zero Find the way to show the formatting. The names of the paragraphs. Plain text, body text,bull/it subhead spelled bullit -- Why is it spelled that way?	Using Styles in Word 2010

Technical Writing

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Notes 27 Aug 2012

27 Aug 2012
Notes, 1st class

Class Information
Syllabus will be posted on Canvas. Came from the corporate world not a professional teacher. Learned the ropes by doing. Experience is the best teacher. Office in the main hallway of the LA building, LA 117a  . Reason to take this class—to open doors in the world Cell phones—turn them off Don’t leave class unless its an emergency/extenuating circumstance
Textbook We will choose a book and discuss its technical writing details Compare concrete text version vs. online version ISBN—09700973-1-x--paperback FAA was formed due to a crash between two airliners over the Grand Canyon	Books we voted on: Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book The design of everyday things Diffusion of innovations Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscriptio
The ability to write is essential to progress in your careers. The reason we write is to extend our brains so we can solve /sort out our problems. The analytical skills we learn in writing are the skills we use in thinking. Academic studies are intended to make better thinkers who make a difference in the world.
Discussion on First writing assignment: Resume' Say what you need to say and do it concisely in as few words as necessary to get the job done. Resumes are short and highly structured. They are a technical description of you.	Really Ugly Résumés from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee
Research Paper Assignment Write a series of solution papers for rebuilding civilization from a plane crash in a valley with everything you need as far as raw materials go. Daedalus Project.Survival and escape book.Think about some real world projects you would like to work on and bring them to class. Writing is about story. We are driven in our nature to forge communities The research paper will be a 60 page document collaborative document, 10,000 words of writing per team member. Keep it brief. Size. Graphic intensive, graphics take more time to create than text. If the document is short on size, it will be short on detail. Remission of execution.Stay up on the reading assignments, watch the due dates.	Assignment Read about Gestalt. What are its... Sets of rules or grammars. Gestalt used as our First assignment is a resume assignment. From 4310 Company/organization work at HR business guide for a company. Monday there is no school.
Buy these books Guns, germs, and steel.—Buy the book Death in the Grand Canyon—Buy the book Writing with style—John Trimble -- try to get the most current version--Buy the book National Geographic—Buy a subscription

Discussion on Metaphor Power horse tractor—no steering wheel—metaphor is essential always broken into two parts, use metaphor to expand our known world into a larger world Control interface, controlled with reins. Word processor –typewriter—allows us to use object oriented design to manage the writing process more efficiently.
Technical Discussion on using Styles in Word: Print layout view if I go over to draft view if I go toward preferences go to the orb on a windows machine go to options advanced settings style area width set greater than zero Find the way to show the formatting. The names of the paragraphs. Plain text, body text,bull/it subhead spelled bullit -- Why is it spelled that way?	Using Styles in Word 2010

Technical Writing

This is a test

This is a test to see if blogs are embeddable in Canvas using iframes.

Choose

Three Two One

Michael Hoff Tracy

In September, my cousin, Michael Hoff Tracy, passed from this world alone in his truck in southern California of unknown causes.  He was missing for three weeks before someone collecting scrap metal found him.  There were no signs of foul play, and he was not robbed.  He had just gone to be by himself for a while, maybe to watch the sun go down, or maybe to just be quiet.

He was my first cousin.  I never met him, never knew him.  In his way he made an impact on my life.  I wanted to meet him though.  Now I never will.

His sister reported him missing, received the information, made the arrangements for his remains, and sorted through his things.  She drew this picture of him.

None of us knows in our final hour where we will be or whom we will leave behind. May the Lord be with all of our loved ones and the unloved also.  May we always be truly grateful for those willing to love and help us, because the love in this world is scarce and becoming more scarce with passing time.  And what will we do when it is utterly gone from the earth?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oHo28bIruU]

Quoted from a comment on YouTube:

This song is about the loss of a friend or family member - the passing of them and how life changes without them, how it feels empty and sad. But life is just a visit here and Death is not the end just a different plane of existence.