Powerpoint Presentation Tips

After reading the assigned articles I feel like I have a much better understanding of what goes into making a good Powerpoint presentation and why some presentations fail to engage their audiences. The first helpful tip would be to pick a template that engages your audience. By either statrting from scratch or by simply maodifying the colors on a pre-made template, you can really bring a presentation to life using the right background template for you slides. The second tip is to choose the font that most appropriately fits your presenation. The third tip is to use a little text as possible to get the message across. People want to listen to the speaker and use the the Powerpoint as sort of a note sheet, not the other way around. The fourth tip is to use video and sound effects to enhance the presentation. The final tip that I took from these readings would have to be to keep it simple. Powerpoint is designed to aid the speaker in giving a presentation, not to act as the entire presentation itself.

Photoshop Collage

Here is the collage I made using photoshop. It shows the many emotional sides of me.

Chris Nolan Lecture

The lecture given on Tuesday by Chris Nolan regarding Internet search engines was very educational. I learned several things about Google that I didn’t previously know. I already knew that Google is the most popular search engine; however, I did not know exactly why. Mr. Nolan explained that Google is so popular because it is incredibly easy use and searches for the most relevant information regarding whatever someone might search for. Google ranks the results of a search by looking for key words in documents and document titles as well as by evaluating how many times other people have clicked on that specific link. One thing that surprised me about Google is that you can change the language of the site to made up languages such as pig Latin and pirate talk. Overall the lecture was informative and enjoyable.