I always get the last word.

So the semester has ended and finals week is looming over all of us, but there is still need for good cheer and lots of wisdom, because college is not over yet. So to all of you students, new and returning, here is some advise for you: always pay attention to what Mrs. Belisle says, and ask questions before the due date of projects, because she will not extend when assignments are due, unless you show concern before hand. Use your time wisely or you will fall behind and under no circumstances should you think that you can go through this entire class without doing your homework assignments, in the end it will kill your grade, because you won't know how to do anything! Use your head and you can easily pass the class with flying colors and be secure in your knowledge of how to use a computer. Good luck!

Website look-through

I liked Jackie’s website because everything was in its place and no pictures were floating around the page and her Nav-bar was simple but interesting at the same time. All of her information was easy to find and she brings in a good mix of her life and interests and school to make a wonderfully insightful page.

Teka’s is the most AMAZING thing ever! Everything on her website is perfectly proportionate and nothing is floating, her Nav-bar design is fresh and interesting, all of her hyperlinked pictures are cool and though there is not that much wordage on it, this website is one of the best deisgned things that I have ever seen!!!!

Ana’s was good. There were lots of pictures and good information. All of her backgrounds were great, colorful and bright, each one a little different from the last. However some of her pictures were a little pixilated but good overall!

Sharing myself with the World

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~nmccarte

For this class we had to make a website about ourselves or something we care about. I chose to do it about me, and I was really excited to start it. However, making a website is a very time consuming thing! It is not hard, it is actually very easy but you have to have a lot of patience and ideas or you will never get anything done. For this project I used Microsoft Expression Web, and thank God that the school has it or I would have been deader than a door nail! With Expression Web it is so easy to make the page exactly what you wanted it to be, easy to find colors, to insert pictures and tables too! I am most proud of Family and Friends page, it has the most importance and meaning for me. I don't think I would have changed anything except that I was have spend more time on finding pictures and added some pages about other interests and fun things I have done in my life. The biggest technological challenge was getting the Navbar and thumbnails put in and working the right way, but once you figure it out it is really not that hard to do. On the other hand my biggest design challenge would have had to be getting all the pictures centered and lined up in the tables, since you are only allowed to make five row tables in Expression, if you use the easy way. I will show my site to all of my family and friends as well as my hall mates here at Trinity, they will defiantly get a kick out of it! I might have to make another site someday, but i doubt that I will have to make it for any other class that I plan to take here at Trinity.

Pictures that Lie

What picture you chose and why?

I chose to make a picture of a few different types of animals in a school hallway because it symbolized the diversity of the world and that we must coexist.

Where did the picture originate?

I got some of the pictures from Stock Exchange and some from Google images. Most of the Stock Exchange pictures were from documentations of animal watchers.

How was it manipulated?

The four animals were magnet lassoed out of their pictures and placed in different position in the school hallway.

Was the manipulation harmful?

No, this manipulation was not harmful at all.

Why or why not?

Because unlike the manipulation of pictures in Cytology, where a simple change could mean life or death, my picture was made for the betterment of society, and the establishment of friendships that are unique and out of the ordinary.

How did it relate to the article you researched?

My picture did not really relate to my article very much, because the manipulation that the researchers were talking about was of a harmful and disturbing nature, while my photo is trying to make the world a better place. The only similarity is that they are both manipulated in some way-shape-or-form.

Citation:

Pinco, Jeffery, et al. "Impact of Digital Image Manipulation in Cytology." Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 133.1 (2009): 57-61. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 8 Apr. 2010.

Hand Coding is a thing of the past...?

HTML code is something that most of the world doe snot think about in our day-to-day lives, we have sophisticated machines that can do all of that for us! But what if that software was down, or get infected with a virus? Could you be able to hand code your website into the form that you want it? Probably not, and that is the reason that we should know it! Always think of the worst case scene and prepare to battle whatever obstacles might be put in your way.

PowerPoint Presentations

Today we finished viewing that many Power Point presentations that we had to do on our prospective majors. I found many of them to be wonderful but there were two that just stood out from all of the rest: Ana Price's presentation on being a Spanish major, and Teka Nicholas' presentation on the Terra Cotta Soldiers.

Ana's slide show was through and very neatly put together, the sound and graphics were excellent (though the video was sadly hard to see)and the background color was perfectly picked to go with the flag of Spain. She had everything that a simple slide show could hold about the many areas of Spain and their differences.

Teka's slide show about the Terra Cotta Soldiers was the best PowerPoint Presentation that I have seen in a long time! Her GIF was very cool and the way that all of the graphics of the Terra Cotta Soldiers was linked to different websites that will tell you more about them was a very interesting and unused idea. She was very through and too the point, she never went off topic and the over all effect of the presentation had me wanting to change my major!