Powerpoint Tips

Powerpoints are a tool that our generation has grown up with. However, this doesn't mean that making an effective powerpoint presentation is easy. My first guideline for making a powerpoint is to keep it simple. Don't get caught up with all of the special effects and custom animations, instead, pick one and go with it. There is nothing more annoying than watching a powerpoint with 50 different effects per slide. My second guideline is limit the length and number of bullet points and text, this will keep your audience more involved. My third guideline is to take advantage of certain charts and graphs that display visual evidence. My fourth guideline is to insert an audio or video clip, youtube videos can be embedded and these are great to keep the audience involved. My final guideline is to use images and graphics that are high in quality. Low quality graphics can lead the audience to be critical of the presentation.

Snow Dogs - Adobe Photoshop Elements Collage

I chose these pictures to make a collage because the pictures are of my three dogs, I'm from Ohio so in the winter we would love to take them on walks in the snow, the collage shows all three of them in their favorite time of the year.

Search Engines and Navigating the Internet

Chris Nolan's presentation today was very informative and interesting. He demonstrated many new features of Google that I was not previously aware of. Some of the different features of the advanced search box are new things that I found. For example, you can use advanced search to narrow your search to search within a site or domain. For example if you wanted to search the noaa for information about hurricanes you could limit your search to only things within the website noaa.gov. You can even be specific by searching only sites with .edu, .org, .gov, etc. or you can exclude certain words in your search which can be used to limit and enhance your search. Something I learned that surprised me were the new options in the search box as well. The new options include searching for things that are geographically close, by the last time updated or using the timeline to show where certain information is by date on a certain topic. Google has come a long way in terms of a search engine, all of its features make it one of the most popular search engine on the web.