Feel the Power...Of A Powerpoint Presentation!

In my last Computer Skills class we gave power point presentations over a topic of personal interest. Mine was over Art Therapy and I really enjoyed learning how to add music to my presentation, animating a gif image, and learning how to give an object a motion path! My classmates had INCREDIBLE presentations! Two I really enjoyed would be Katie Leonard's presentation over International Development and Kendra Doshier's presentation over majoring in Communication. Katie Leonard presented a very clean, easy to read presentation over a topic she was obviously very passionate about! I admired her spunk and her desire to help the poorest of poor! What a sweet girl! Kendra had a complex topic, but managed to make her presentation easy to read and very interesting! I loved how she animated that reel of film! My classmates are really talented at making power points!

Excelling at Excel!

I was so excited to learn how to use a paste special in my powerpoints in order to create a link to an existing document. This is really useful to me for my art portfolio power points. Whenever I edit one of my photos that has been paste special into my power point, the photo on my slide will automatically change! I can see how this would be beneficial to a firm of Architects. Whenever they update building plans on an Excel spreadsheet, the changes will automatically be made on the power point!!!

Scanners and Video Cameras and a Digital Audio Recording Lab, Oh My!

When we visited the CLT I discovered a nook of computers that had scanners and Adobe Photoshop! This is really exciting for me, as I am an art major and Adobe Photoshop is a useful art making tool! Another thing that made me really happy was the discovery of the Digital Audio Lab, where students can record monologues, songs, presentations, you nme it! My sister is visiting on March 20th and now that I've found the Audio Lab, My sister and I can play a song together (she plays the violin and I play the flute) while she's here and send it to our parents back home!

Now You See It, Now You Don't!

I chose to talk about the picture of the illustrator of "Goodnight Moon", Clement Hurd. Originally, the illustrator's picture on the dust jacket of the book showed him smoking a cigarette, but apparently Harper Collins thought his cigarette was inappropriate and PRESTO! The cigarette is gone from newer copies of the popular children's book. Now, I understand covering up sexually explicit, racy imagery, like the bare bottom on a bicycle on a Queen poster in 1974, but I feel that covering up a cigarette seems like overkill. Does Harper Collins really think that kids are going to start smoking because of the illustrator of "Goodnight Moon" does? It was an awkward edit as well, since Mr.Hurd now looks like he's awkwardly groping the air! While this wasn't a harmful change, it seems really unnecessary! In fact, this reminds me of when American poster companies removed Paul McCartney's cigarette from his hand from the famous Abbey Road picture. Here's the edited version.http://www.allposters.com/View_HighZoomResPop.asp?apn=2687971&imgloc=7-791-ATCI000Z.jpg&imgwidth=949&imgheight=632&sc=False&ct=%20Aquarius%20Images&cw=20&ch=20
And here's the original! http://www.usageorge.com/Jokes/Jokes/Beatles_Abbey-Road.jpg
For more information on this Abbey Road touch up, see this article! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2681219.stm