I was going through my website and making everything consistent. As I'm sure you have noticed I have used coloured background panels on all of the pages of my website, except for the blogging page. At first I didn't want to add colour to the blog as it was meant to be more formal but I found that it became quite boring and it was hard to differentiate between my blog and all the rest of the formatting on the page. So I decided to highlight the main text of each blog post (I have found that be...

I added a picture to my banner image for this page. I know that it is slightly different to the others on this website so I will try to fix that up soon.

A few weeks ago when I was looking for a picture to put on this website I found an image of an old blue typewriter. I decided to take a photo of my new laptop while the typewriter image was visible. I did this in order to juxtapose the two pieces of technology as I believe they represent my conflicting opinions of technology.

I own a reasona...

I just went through and checked all my previous posts for spelling mistakes and changed them. Of course I did this the easy way by copying them into a Word document and using spelling check. I have become reliant upon spell check, especially auto correct. I rarely use a capital letter 'I' when typing as I find it unnecessary to press the shift key when the computer program will change it for me anyway. The same goes for capital letters at the start of a sentence, I that I'm meant to use them ...

I still don't like relying on computers so much. When I was typing up my first lot of instructions for creating a SurveyMonkey account I was getting quite annoyed at how much time it took. I prefer handwriting instructions, particularly when they include diagrams, as the formatting is easier to do by hand. In my head I know how I would like the instructions to look but having to produce an electronic copy makes getting the layout correct really quite difficult. I found using the print screen ...

I have finally come up with an idea for this assignment. My idea is to use SurveyMonkey to create a quiz/survey that people invited to my 18th birday party can complete. This would allow me to mix-and-match my own ideas with those of my friends and consquently host a party that everyone has contributed to and had a say in. This is ideal for someone like me whose friends share a variety of interests. This way everyone can at least enjoy the majority of the aspects of the party and I also will ...

This question was raised during the lecture today and the answer was: to create a reflective piece of writing. I believe it is important to reflect on things whether it be a teacher reflecting on their class plan for the day, or a student reflecting on their day at school but I do not understand why it has to be done via the internet. With the internet there is always a sense of someone 'looking over your shoulder' watching everything you type. If you hand write your personal reflections I ho...

I for one prefer paper and textbooks over computers. Let's face it, they don't randomly shut down nor do they slow down when you have too many programs open. The sound of 30 kids tapping away on their own laptops would irritate me so I'm glad I was one of the last year groups to avoid the use of so much technology in school. I don't believe it is beneficial for each student, primary or high school, to have their own personal computer/laptop. I do believe that they should have access to a comp...

I was planning on spending about 10 minutes on making this website, 2 hours later it was time for dinner and I was still not ready to publish it. I intended on completing the basics of the first assignment, but I ended up writing up a fair amount of information about myself. My reason for doing this is that people at the university do not know anything about me, so I took the making of this website as an opportunity to try to describe things about myself that other people in my life know thro...