Favorite Presentations

My 2 favorite presentations were Erin's and Steven's. Erin's had very clear and nice graphics. There was a personal touch added with photographs of herself and others that attend Trinity University. It was very clear that she wants to be in the television/broadcasting field. Steven's was really cool because he included a video that showed all the Walmarts across the U.S. and when they came into existence. His presentation also included some very interesting information about how large corporations such as Walmart are run.

Power Point Tips

Some good tips on creating power points that convey the message and keep audiences interested are: using clear images in your presentation, this allows the audience to stay focused without having to read much, this lead to the second tip, do NOT have a lot of writing on your slides, audiences can become detoured when they see a lot of words. Tip three is use backgrounds and layouts that flow and go together. Smooth transition between slides is best.

Photoshop

Life under the Sea

The Internet

Chris Nolan informed our class on many interesting things about the internet. Anybody can post just about anything onto the internet. Websites such as Wikipedia have information that has been added by people that are not experts just voicing their opinion on a certain topic. This can be very misleading when doing research. When doing important research, Databases that peer reviewed can be very reliable. Usually papers that use multiple resources are the most reliable. People can also post propaganda on the internet and not have it taken off. One example of this was the MArtin Luther King Jr. website that was run by a white supremacy group. There were all types of lies on the website, yet it looked legitimate. You can never be too careful when deciding if a website is not backed by facts.