Power Points

In my most recent computer class we discussed power point presentations and I read some interesting articles on the topic. One of the articles gave the top ten things to do on your power points which I found very helpful to better my presentations. Another article was about how to avoid bad power points and how to avoid them which also gave helpful advice. Another article was actually a YouTube video that gave a step by step tutorial that I found a little hard to follow because he goes quite fast. My guidelines for a good power point are: 1. Use as few words as possible for each slide 2. Have a visual theme through out 3. Avoid too many slide transitions and noise transitions 4. Use clear visuals 5. Do not hand out printed copies.

Photoshop

This composition is of different architecture around the Trinity campus. It shows a varied of different angles.

Chris Nolan

In my most recent computer skills class we had a guest speaker. Chris Nolan, the guest speaker, came in and discussed internet searches and ways in which you can get reliable scholarly articles for papers and classes. I learned about how to improve upon my searches by using the advanced search and opening up the show options button, so I can narrow my search and made it more effective. The show options button was something new to me that I think will be very helpful in the future because it has brings out a bar that has different types of sites and you can narrow your search to only those few sites. Something that surprised me was the fact that government sites with the .gov can be unreliable because they can be very persuasive and biased about the topic because it is a government run program.