Larry Hechler's Presentation

I really enjoyed looking at all of the parts of a laptop. I had no idea that you needed to clean your keyboard. I will do that soon. I also will turn off my laptop every night when I go to sleep to save my battery.

Kristen Zinser

PowerPoint

This is my PowerPoint presentation about Food Advertising Directed Toward Children.

http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~kzinser/index_files/frame.htm

Kristen Zinser

Topic for Presentation

For my presentation I have chosen the topic of advertising to children, specifically food advertisements. I have chosen this because I plan on majoring in Business with an emphasis in Marketing.

Kristen Zinser

PowerPoint Article Reactions

After reading the articles about PowerPoint, I learned a lot about what I should not do in my presentation. All of the information about colors is really interesting; it's so true about how they affect one's moods. Taking words off of the slide will be hard to do and is something that a lot of people have trouble doing. Seeing a presentation with less words and more graphics and only essential information would be really nice.

1. Don't read from the slides.
2. Keep animation to a minimum.
3. Use the same font and make it big!
4. The less words, the better.
5. Don't be monotone.

Kristen Zinser

Chris Nolan's Presentation

I enjoyed Chris Nolan's presentation today in class. He introduced me to many things in Google that I did not know existed. I will definitely be using the Advanced Search and Google Scholar. Those will help me find scholarly articles to begin searches for papers and projects.

Kristen Zinser

Photo Laws

After reading the article about the lady who got her picture of her son placed in a magazine, I'm shocked. I had no idea that a company could take a picture of the Internet and put it in their magazine without contacting who they took it from. This definitely evades her privacy and I completely agree with her fight for some kind of compensation. In the US, I don't think this would be any different. The publisher would still need to contact her and compensate her for use of her photo. Just because it is online does not mean that it is public use, that lady owns the rights to the image.

Kristen Zinser

PowerPoint Presentations

I think that an effective PowerPoint presentation is interesting but doesn't have too many special effects. They can take away from the actual message and get to be quite annoying. I don't like when there is a lot of info on a slide because I can never see it all if the presenter goes too fast. I hate when people read straight from the PowerPoint too. That is so boring and makes me want to go back to my room and go to sleep. I have had instructors that do that here at Trinity. Other things that bother me are when people put really bright fonts on PowerPoint with picture backgrounds and try to make it all creative looking. PowerPoints serve a purpose of informing the audience about some topic, it's the speaker's job to make it interesting for them, not a slides.

Kristen Zinser