Powerpoint perspective!

Powerpoint can be an extremely useful tool; however sometimes it can be extremely frustrating when there is a bad powerpoint presentation.  There are a few things when watching a powerpoint presentation that can be extremely distracting.  When there is too much animation, I feel it definitely takes away from the information given.  It can also prolong the presentation if they animate each little thing.  Another thing I dislike about powerpoint presentations is when there is too many images.  In addition it can be extremely boring when there is no images at all.  The creator should find a balance between the two.  Another pet-pieve of mine is when there is too many words on the powerpoint.  There is so much information that I tend to zone out after only a few words.  The last aspect of a bad powerpoint presentation that I dislike is when there are too many colors.  If there are too many colors then the powerpoint doesnt seem consistant, and it is easy to get lost.  Powerpoint can be extremely useful in the classroom or business setting.  One example of a well used powerpoint is in my Trinity principles of marketing class.  Professor Davis gives us a powerpoint with a few blanks and then in class we can follow along with the completed powerpoint she presents.  Her powerpoints only include the important information, and I'm always intrigued by the information in the powerpoint and what she has to say that goes along with it.  I'm excited by learning more about powerpoint through this class!

CLT visit

I was unable to make it to the CLT visit with the class; however, from my own experience as well as from reading other peoples blogs I have learned to discover many new things about CLT.  The few times I have been down to CLT, I needed to watch movies for my classes and I was unable to watch it on my personal computer, so I headed down to the CLT to watch.  The people at the desk were extremely helpful.  My headphones broke as I was watching the movie, and I found out I can rent a pair of theirs.  They not only have PC's down there but Macs as well.  This is very helpful to me since I am a mac users, and now I sometimes find it hard to navigate on a PC.  I heard that the class scanned an image for the assignment.  This is really great, since I don't have a printer or scanner in my room.  I usually go to T3 to print things, but the other day when I needed to scan something for class, I had to ask around all my friends to see if they had a scan.  It's good to know that I can now just go to the CLT to scan something if I need it.  I also heard there is a HD video chat room, which can be good for conference calls and such.  The CLT seems to have many resource for us Trinity students to utilize, and I'm so glad that in our class we got to learn how to better take advantage of these resources. 

Image Manipulation

I chose the digitally altered photo of O.J. Simpson, because it was the most striking picture to me of the bunch. This picture originated as a mug shot of O.J. during his trials. The picture on the left shows an unaltered version that Newsweek uses; however, the right side has altered version by Time magazine. This picture is altered to be a bit blurry and darker with a higher contrast. Time magazine was “accused of manipulating the photo to make Simpson appear darker and menacing;” however we do not know the true intentions of the editor. I do agree that this picture does appear to be more ominous though. He seems more of a criminal in the second photo, than a real person. This manipulation could be harmful to O.J. Simpsons case, because human being are naturally biased people and if the see someone who “looks” like a criminal they are more likely to think he is a criminal, even though they don’t know any facts. I would not want my image altered without my permission, especially in this way. It is harmful, because almost violates his rights.

I chose this youtube photo shop of Jennifer Anniston, because I thought it was an interesting twist that goes along with the O.J Simpson image. The ultimate message is things are not always as they appear. It is natural for us to just accept photos as true; however, in this day in age technology allows for us to manipulate picture in a way that is deceiving to the viewer. This photoshop shows the beautiful Jennifer Anniston transformed into an old lady. Maybe whenever there is a photo that is altered like this a disclaimer should be included, so the viewer isn’t mislead to believe something that isn’t true.