For The Students of Next Semester

Welcome to the best class at Trinity! This is a very easy class to earn an A or A- if you just show up to class and pay attention to what Ms. Belisle has to say. Do your Homework, it doesn't take long, and you will recieve a great grade for participation!

Blog Entry One

There were many great websites, but I liked a few in particular. I like Zach Lambert's because I really enjoy watching the basketball team here at Trinity University, and he had a lot of funny pictures about the basketball team and it was very interesting. I also really liked Shelby's website because it did a great job of showing her personality, and would really give someone a great impression of what she was like if they diddnt know her. And lastly, I really enjoyed Alli's website because I also like to ride horses. She did a great job on her website design and looks like she spent a lot of time on her website.

My Website Blog!

Please visit my website I thought making this website was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I did spend a lot of time on the project, but I thought we were going to have to use code for the whole website at first. If I had to do that, my coded website would have looked a lot less professional. I used Expressions Web to do my website because that's what we spent most time on in class, and I didn't want to redo the project. The athletics page made me most proud because I really like the animations. Also on the athletics page is the Mississippi miracle play, which I really enjoy to watch. If I could change something, I would change the background on all the pages to a cool picture instead of plain maroon. I could not find out a picture that actually looked good, so I just used a color background instead. My biggest technical challenge was the nav bar with pictures and hot spots. It was really hard to size all the pictures, and I basically used that whole work day on my nav bar. Props to Brittany for giving me a helping hand when I needed it! My biggest design challenge was was the animation GIF's. For some reason I could not erase the white behind the GIF's. It would look a lot better if I could figure that out! I will show my site to any incoming freshmen that want to understand the life of a Trinity student. (I will also show my family since I am so proud of course...)I would definitely think about creating a website for a resume of mine. I believe it would be really easier to send possible companies my link to my website. Could be and upcoming event this summer maybe! I had a great time doing this project!! :)

Visit from Larry Hechler

Larry Hechler came to visit last thursday, and he really knew his stuff about technology. I currently have an apple Mac Book Pro, and he gave some great tips on how to take care of your laptop. He said that I should backup my computer on a monthly basis, so I do not lose all my hard work so far. I also learned that I need to clean my screen with a special soft rag, so I do not damage the LCD screen. Trinity provides any current student a y-drive that they can back up their computer into. He said do not back up porn lol because he has software on the database to seek those people out and get them into a lot of trouble. I basically learned porn is bad. It seemed like he like Dell laptops a lot better. If I had a child going to college, I would probably buy my kid a dell laptop because of their ability to get you a new laptop if it breaks. I think he said this deal lasts for four years, so college is a worry free time of laptops i guess lol. Larry really knew a lot about hardware, and if I ever have any troubles with my mac, he will be the first person I go to!

Powerpoint experience

I had a lot of trouble with this powerpoint because the MAC powerpoint was not very compatible with the PC powerpoint software. I the main thing that would not work was the gif, so I had to do this gif over again in the library with PC computers. The powerpoint presentation did not take as long as I thought it would, and it turned out to look really good. The GIF was worth the time because it helped me recieve a good grade. I did love to talk about the topic of pole vaulting because I did it all four years in high school. I had a great time and earned a lot of medals.

I thought Ali's powerpoint was the best in the class about levitating. She really made it look easy, but I bet its really not. She did a great job. It really looked like she was levitating.

Picture that Lies

I chose a picture of Carrie Underwood because she is very beautiful, and I also enjoy listening to her music. I got this picture off a google search and just copied the photo. I manipulated the photo by enhancing the quality and making her seem like she was thinking about me. The manipulation was not harmful because it is very obvious that this picture is only a joke, and that she's is not really thinking about me because she has never met me! This relates to the article I chose below because there are no guidelines on the use of the photo, and it was only used as a funny joke.


Sally Stapleton, a senior AP photo editor, said it's up to newspapers to decide how to use a photograph. "We are presenting reality (but) we have no guidelines on use. We have an internal policy that we do not change photography," she said.

Noack, David. "Taste or manipulation?." Editor & Publisher 131.33 (1998): 13. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Apr. 2011.

Chris Nolan's Presentation

A .com sites are commercial and are trying to sell a product. These sites are less scholerly than something like NASA.gov. A (.gov) website is very scholerly because the government has created this website. Usually with a (.gov) website, there is an author who has their doctorate in the topics information and is usually pretty credible. If you attach a (-.com) to the end of your search, the only hits that will be presented will be everything but .com hits. You will see some .nets, .edu, .gov, ect. • If you use google scholar, you will get much more scholerly articles. It will also present the number of citations. Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Way to move their search results up the list of keyword hit.Google is great for specific information. If a topic is more broad, a encyclopedia or library resource would be a lot more effective. Wikipedia can have false information if enough people agree with the web page. Be cautious when using a Wikipedia article. These articles do not have an author. Credible sites could have an author, publisher, intended purpose/audience, Objectivity, Substantiation for claims, and Recency of information.