PowerPoint Presentations

From the classroom to the office, PowerPoint is a great learning tool and presentation format. There are however many ways to create a poor PowerPoint presentation that would detract from its helpfulness. for example, over-active graphics such as moving letters take away from a good presentation. also, loud sound effects and overly cluttered slides make a presentation difficult to understand. Each slide should not be full of information, but rather it should include key points. The speaker should not read directly from the slide because the information on each slide should be elaborated on in discussion.

I have found PowerPoint to be very useful in my schooling. I have used this program to give presentations on book reports, and research analysis, and even to study for tests. for my art history test this year I created a slide show of important works of art that I needed to study. For personal use, I created a slide show of pictures and music for my grandparents 50th anniversary party. PowerPoint is great because it can be used in a variety of ways.

Class Visit to the CLT

The AT& T Center for learning and technology is located on the 1st floor of the Trinity Library. Robert Chapman gave us a presentation about the facility and I was pleased to hear about so many resources available for trinity students at the CLT. In the Lab there are 26 computers and 11 scanners open for use. there is also a help desk that can assist students with computer classwork. I was happy to hear that there is also a recording room stocked with microphones that is open to be used by students. also as an art major it was helpful to hear that I can rent out cameras for class work with the permission of a professor. I hadn't been down to the CLT before, but now that I know what it has to offer me I will take advantage of the great resources there. Here is a drawing that I scanned at the CLT:

Can a Picture Lie?



Does this photo of Oprah Winfrey seem off to you? Oprah is depicted on the cover of this TV guide looking much slimmer than she is on live television. This is because her photo has been manipulated and cropped. This image is actually the head of Oprah and the body of actress  Ann-Margret. I chose this picture because it was striking to see such a recognizable woman looking unusually slimmer and scantily clad. I feel that this photo manipulation is detrimental to society because it creates an impossible and inappropriate ideal for both men and women.

This video clip shows how intensively celebrities have their image manipulated after a photo shoot. I chose this video of Leighton Meester, a well known female actress, to demonstrate how much her photograph changes from when it was initially taken to the published photo shopped version.