Powerpoint Tips

I liked the tips given on these slides. The best one was about bad power points because there is nothing worse than having to sit through a long speech with a boring power point. Here are five tips I would give to have a successful powerpoint:

1. Use pictures, an odd number of images is always better than an even one.
2. Try to limit yourself to using three bullets.
3. Don't use too many words, rather use words to "reinforce" your statements.
4. Make your own background theme, try to shy away from using generic templates.
5. Add in some sound, video, or animations in your presentations to help keep the audience interested and visual attached to your presentation.

I feel that if a person is making a powerpoint using these tips will help them make a successful and intriguing power point. Also, nothing is more annoying in an power point than a bad scheme scheme mixed with too many words on a page. A plethora of words is always a bad thing, your power point is supposed to help guide your presentation, all the words you are going to say do not need to be included.

CLT Visit

I have visited CLT on numerous occasions before our class did so last thursday. I like the fact that we can go down to a place where not many people on campus know about, and do work on some of the best computers that have come out on the market for no charge what so ever. Also, when I am doing homework for my tuesday classes, I can watch monday night football on the huge flat screens that they have in CLT which is also an added bonus. A couple things I did not know, was that they give tutorials to students on how to use different software for both macs and pc's. That is something that is valuable to me because back in high school we worked on mac's a lot and I became rather familiar with them, however I have not used one since my junior year of high school, and therefore my knowledge of use for those computers has downgraded severely.

A couple things that I do not like is the fact that even if we get to a computer first, there are certain times of the year when the CLT instructors might move us off so somebody with a multimedia project can get on the machine. I understand that people might need the special capabilities of those computers, but at the same time those computers are first come first serve. Nobody should get special treatment based on what type of homework they are working on.

Excel Feedback

I have never been a big computer type person when it came to doing math and formulas, however i have also never truly known how to use Microsoft Excel. This program has taught me many things that I did not know how to do, and did not know that a computer program was capable of doing. I like that we can connect an excel worksheet to a powerpoint and whatever we change, changes in the powerpoint.

My favorite thing to do in excel was the selecting a lot of cell and doing a conditional format and seeing which cell out of a thousand meet my specific criteria. One thing I really disliked about excel was the use of the graphs because for some reason i just could not grasp the idea of them. Like I understand using visual representation, but my graphs just would not come out looking the way I wanted them to, so that was probably the biggest thing I did not like about this program.

All in all, this program was beneficial

Chris Nolan

In today's presentation from Chris Nolan, I learned many different things that I had not yet known, or that I had forgotten about since I first learned them a long time ago. For example, the fact that Google highlights words from your search in the titles of the articles that appear, or the fact that ".com" means commercial at the end of a url. Another thing that I learned was that scholarly material has references and sources for more articles at the end of the article in which is being presented, while popular sources do not. The final thing that I had learned was the use of the cached button under the website link. Chris Nolan showed us that we get a copy of Google’s link to that page, and in Google’s copy the terms that pertain to our search are highlighted. The cached page is also good for finding recent statements inside your article if there is a lot of traffic and extra stuff on the website. One thing that surprised me was that companies pay to have their link show up on the right side of their webpage. I thought they just picked random companies to show up, or the most popular sites that are found relating to your search topic.

Pictures That Lie

I choose the picture AWOL in America because it caught my eye with the man being almost totally edited out of the picture itself. The picture was taken in Parris Island, South Carolina. In this photo the editor basically removed a man out of the line-up. The editor did so to help emphasize the fact that soldiers are going AWOL and just "disappearing" from their lineup. The manipulation was not harmful because all it does is give the reader a visual of what the article will be about. They did not add anything else to the photo or duplicate something that would not have normally been there.