Powerpoint

The PowerPoint articles we had to read were very helpful in showing what to do and what not to do when it comes to making a PowerPoint presentation. There were some great pointers in how to make a great presentation such as:
1. Keep it Simple
2. Use high quality graphics instead of Microsoft clip art
3. Use colors in a way that invokes emotion
4. Use fonts that are easily seen and readable
5. Limit the use of text
Something that annoys me about bad PowerPoints are fonts that are impossible to read. I hate when people use font that is too loopy to decipher or font that is too close to the color of the background.

First Photoshop Experience

Today in class we learned how to make a photo collage using Photoshop and our pictures we took last week. I chose to take pictures of emotions and used those emotions to create my collage. I used expressions of exhaustion, sadness, and happiness to show what a college student experiences throughout their day. We go from tired in the morning, to sad and bored in class, to happy that the day is over!

Chris Nolan

Chris Nolan's presentation was very interesting. I learned a lot about Google and why they are so popular. I also learned about websites and how to judge if they are good or not. I was very surprised at the Martin Luther King Jr. website. A seemingly normal website turned out to be something very cruel. It was a site full of hate and derogatory comments that anyone, including children, could stumble upon. It goes to show that you cant trust everything that is online. A useful tip I learned is to look for sources and quality of sources to determine whether a website is academic and appropriate for class. Another useful tip is to use site: to narrow a web search to a certain domain such as .com or .edu.