Powerpoint Advice

PowerPoint presentations are difficult to make well because many people try to do too much with it and end but making their presentation a farce.

Nicole's PowerPoint Do's and Don't:

1. Do make it easy to understand and use simple sentences. No one wants to be thinking hard during a presentation.

2. Do not put more than about 15 words on each slide, it gets tiring to read quickly if there is more to read.

3. Do use animations and graphics, without these the presentation will get boring very quickly!

4. Do not have the presentation on a timer, go only as fast as you can, while making sure that your audience is understanding what you are saying.

5. Do Have fun and put some thought into it. Making a presentation in the last minute and by just throwing some information onto the slide will probably get you a failing grade, or tossed out of a job.

Hope these help you on your next attempt at a PowerPoint presentation!

Journey into the Unknow...

This picture, to me, means everything, Life in an unknown adventure and there is always something waiting at the end, a light in a time of darkness. We must follow our fated paths (the yarn that three old ladies are knitting with)and conquer our fears to become the greatest being that we can.

Goooooooooogle

Today Chris Nolan came in to talk to the class about how to use Google to find scholarly sources. I find this fascinating because I never knew that most of the sources that I was looking on the web weren't at least partly scholarly! I had never really known before this class what the different endings of websites meant, and how each had its own area that it solely focus' on. I found it very interesting to compare that I have been using for research to what I should be using! I will now be able to look for the correct sources when I have to write a research paper. What I found most interesting during this class was learning that I could disable the cookies on my computer, this is good to know so that I can do that for the computers that I share with other people, because no one wants what they have been looking up to be known by everyone else!