Powerpoint Presentations

My favorite presentation was Lindsey's Art Therapy presentation. She is the only one so far who used music throughout the presentation. The music and the design perfectly complimented the relaxing nature of art therapy. The soft color tones complimented the examples of art that she used in her presentation. It was beautifully done.
My second favorite presentation was Maddy's presentation on Business Management and Marketing using Neimans as an example. Maddy's was great becuase the design was very sophisticated and complimented the face of Neimans that was presented in the pictures she used from the website. It was mainly the design and the elegance of the color schemes that made me like this presentation.

Presentation Tips

I thought the different articles on good and bad presentations gave some great advice, a lot of it I knew already and some of it helped me realize some bad things I had been doing in presentation as well. Here are 5 main points I think are the most important when giving a powerpoint presentation: 

1) Do not read off the slides

2) Don't use distracting backgrounds

3) Only use about 3-4 bullet points on a slide

4) Use appropriate charts and keep them simple-less than 5 pieces of data per chart

5) Make text at least 28 pt. font

Excel Blog

I'm really glad we learned how to use Excel so well. At first I didn't think it would be that useful for me but learning all the shortcuts, functions, and uses for Excel. I don't know if I will exactly get to use all these skills in the immediate future but I'm glad I have these skills for the future, either for managing my money once I have my own bank account or doing a project for school, who knows! I'm sure I'll find many uses for it now that I know I don't have to calculate lists by hand. I hate being inefficient and our skills in Excel guarantee efficiency! I can't wait to find something to use Excel for, I just love pulling down that formula. . . I'm a nerd. In conclusion I'm glad we spent so much time learning about Excel. 

Help in CLT

I'm pretty excited about our trip down to CLT today. I think that after all I learned about the opportunities with the technology there and the importance of keeping up with technology, I think I'm going to try to visit there a couple times before the semester is over to learn some new things. In this class it seems as though we are about to be working with photos and photoshop and it seems like I would be able to get a lot of good help with photoshop down there. Also I'm a vocal performance major so the recording lab seems like it will be really useful to me if I ever need to record audition tapes, my piano skills homework, or any compositions for the composition class I'll probably take next year! I'm really excited about all the cool things I can learn and do in CLT.

Manipulated Photos

I chose the picture of the author of the children's book "Goodnight Moon". The original picture was of the author holding a cigarette in his hand and the manipulated picture took the cigarette out of his hand. I don't think the manipulation was harmful at all, I think this manipulation was actually good. It probably isn't a good idea to show any kind of images related to cigarettes or smoking. I thought the manipulation was a good choice on the publishers part.