Powerpoint Presentations

In class we have been learning about how to make powerpoint presentations that are interesting and entertaining. I can remember when I first learned how to use powerpoint when I was in 5th grade, and all the slides just consisted of all the words we were going to say and pictures from clipart. I realize now that those presentations must have been really really boring, and after reading the articles, I see that I basically did everything like absolutely wrong. I think the main thing that all the articles talk about is not putting everything you are going to say onto your powerpoint. Id someone is just reading straight off the screen, everyone will be bored and not pay attention to what you have to say. That is probably the thing I find most annoying about powerpoint presentations. It is important to use other elements like sound and visuals such as interesting pictures and clips that have cool effects and have as little words as possible on the screen so you can say your presentation and sound more natural.

This is my collage I made using photoshop. It is a picture of my best friend Ella and she's deciding whether she wants to be happy or sad for the day.

Chris Nolan

Last Tuesday Chris Nolan, who works in the Trinity library, came to class and gave us an lecture about using search engines such as Google and Bing. He asked the class what search engine everyone used, and when almost everyone said Google, he showed us a bar graph that said that something like 70% of people on the internet use Google, followed by Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask, and AOL. He focused the rest of the lecture mostly on Google, which was understandable given what we had just learned. There are so many things about Google that I didn't know before this lecture, like how to modify your search to narrow down what resources come up, that the first links that come up are ordered by relevance, but the most interesting thing I found out was what that the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is what you press so Google takes you directly to the link that would be first if you had just clicked the "Search" button. I thought this was so interesting because I use Google a lot and I had always seen that, but I didn't know what it meant until last Tuesday.