Thursday, October 29, 2009
Power Point Opinions
2) Graphics is number two, utilizing all aspects of the program besides its ability to show words. These aids being graphs, pictures, animations, and clips. It's a necessity that these are used to eas the eyes from the busy text. These elements can help you display numeric data, specifically more aesthetically pleasing.
3) Color & Font, with the assistance of graphics, this element can completely change the feel of your presentation. The readability of the slides, and the importance of certain parts over others.
4) The presenter's presence in the presentation would be next. It's very important to remember it's an aid not a presentation on its own. Make yourself evident in the display of information, people need to hear you go in depth with the bits and pieces of information given on each slide. Tone of voice, vocalizing your passion, and expansion on the PP lines.
5) Organization of the PowerPoint, make sure the slides are in the right order, and that it flows. To keep the audience's attention the presentation must not have any subject breaks, make sure you lead each topic to the next with a smooth transition.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
CLT Lab
The CLT lab is a great resource in my opinion. It's not some difficult thing to utilize, the lab is there for whenever you need it, with plenty of above the curve computers and a variety of software. Besides the 5,000 dollar computers, the staff who operate the lab are extremely knowledgeable and there to help. I enjoyed our time spent there, and exploring the labs potential for the last 30 minutes of class was no issue.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Excel...In my opinion of course
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Chris Nolan's Mysterious Words of Infinite Wisdom
This speech was particularly interesting solely due to its relevance in accordance with us, the students. We covered many different subjects going over the general Internet, the one subject that I was drawn into more so though was the infamous action of Google searching and the things we have to watch out for but also why it is so popular. Google spends a good amount of time and money making sure that they have the best search engine, from inflation of a website to not taking bribes that would allow curtain sites pop up above others ha-ha. As Chris mentioned, Google is great for everyday searching basic information, it's weakness also lays with the genius behind the operation, the search formula. Google does its searching order based on title hits, and how many sites recommend the site. Due to this type of search formula, like I said earlier everyday information would most likely be on the first site that popped up, the problem lays with when the information is a bit more serious. When doing a project for a class, if you're using Google you're going to have a very hard time finding "scholarly" work, as with most searches with Google those types of information banks, will sink to the bottom of the results. Have no fear though, as their is a Google Search completely devoted to scholarly works, Google Scholar. Mr. Nolan went over a daring fact that most student's information is not entirely credible due to their lack in understanding of the way many search engines or databases work, with presentations like his and classes like Mrs. Belisle's we can change that.