PowerPoint Presentation Blog

The blogs were all very useful and taught basically the same thing about being brief, organized, and clear for the audience to understand better. The layout, color, graphics, and animations all add to each specific slide. Hitting important details and making the goals and points clear are essential to a successful PowerPoint.

My list of five guidelines that are important:

1. It's imperative never to read off the slide presentation. This doesn't substitute your presentation.

2. Simplicity and briefness on your slide makes it easier to understand for everyone. Too much information will overload some.

3. The slideshow should have no significant value without your narration behind it.

4. Good visuals that connect to your presentation will connect to your audience even better.

5. A lot of color can be a good and bad thing. Try to color code, it's easier on the eyes, makes for better organization, and adds clarity.

A lot of writing on slides is really frustrating and the first thing I think of personally, is sleeping.

Statistics are another thing that bores me to death. Give me one and move on. Nothing worse than years of numbers a mile long.

Photoshop Composition

My image describes nature in its fullest. It is a black cat waiting to devour an innocent plastic-wrapped squirell. The black crow waits for the remains. Life, death, and scavenging thrive here. The world is a sinnacle and dark place, where strength and power and grace all equal one thing: survival.

Meeting Chris Nolan

On Tuesday, we got to meet Chris Nolan, the assistant University Librarian. He gave an informative lecture on internet browsing and search engines. Google, yahoo, Bing, askjeeves were all popular engines that students used, however, Nolan described that there is a deep, and invisible web that isn't full shown through these. They are mostly scholarly academic databases that have to be paid for. Nolan spoke about page rank, meaning the order that sites come up. The more people that click on a cite, generally means the more credible it is. But rewording, and using .org and .gov endings on the url are a very good starting block for searching for academic work. Nolan gave quick tips and hints like being able to search for a word, simply put define in front of it. The best advice he had was the website http://infomine.ucr.edu/, a very credible academic source site to start projects off with.