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.

Reasons to hate Powerpoint

Power Points have become very boring because people do not understand how to keep their audiences interested. There are many things people should stay away from so they their audience doesn't have death by power-point, like the video above.

PowerPoint users should not try to cram so much information on one slide. If I cant read it from the back of the room, then there's too many words and the font is terrible. If its more than a couple sentences, i'm not going to want to read it!

PowerPoint users should never try to use crazy font that is unprofessional. The crazy curly fonts is not cute, and you definitely lose you professionalism.

Some power points focus way to hard on the entrance effects of the information that it becomes to crazy to watch. If i have to take an Advil after your presentation, than it had way to many effects!

Power point users should keep their slideshows simple and short and to the point. I hate watching powerpoints that are 30 slides long and have way too much information. Know your material before hand, so you can summarized the information. Do not read directly from the screen! Your reading voice puts me to sleep!

Field Trip to CLT

Our field trip to the CLT was very educational. I have already used this knowledge for a different class. For my marketing class, we needed our advertisement to be scanned, so we could all have a copy. I took our group to the CLT and got the job done in no time. The CLT has some high-tec stuff! They even created their own version of skype that can talk to any user who dowloads their software. They have a room that someone could use to do a interview accross the nation to some company via their skype system!I also learned that CLT has video cameras and camcorders if I ever need to use one of those for another class. ALl I have to do is check one out and return it that day! CLT has about the same number of MAC's and PC's, so they are familiar with all types of computers if someone needs help with their own laptop. Robert Chapman was a great guy to meet, and he taught us all about the CLT perfectly. This room is on the first floor of the library, so i highly suggest visiting there to improve any work that any student needs. This self portrait I am about to show only took 15 seconds, so don't JUDGE me!