Power Point

PowerPoint presentation is a very effective way to present your ideas, if you know how to use it well. It's amazing how often people just gets up in front of the class and just read their slides. Anyone can do that, the presenters should prepare a lot before their presentation, in order to do it well and fluent, so it would get the listener's attention. Handing out papers would distract the listeners too because they would concentrate on the papers that you handed out, not your presentation. The most crucial part, people should know that they should not use clip arts and sound effects that are available in Power Points database because they are really annoying for most of the people.

Five important guidelines for a good PowerPoint Presentation:
-The presenter should not read directly from the slides, any one can do that
-The main reason for presentations are showing your emotion by your body language to the audience, which makes it easier for them to understand your point of view.
-Try to have an interesting start to your presentation so you would get people's attention
-Do not write too much stuff on a single slide, more than the reader can read and always support it with visual elements, such as pictures and graphs
-Cue cards are crucial

Microsoft Excel

To be a honest, before taking this class I totally forgot how to do stuff on Microsoft Excel because I learned how to use it when I was in middle school and never need it afterwards; however, now that I'm thinking on majoring accounting, it is going to help me a lot. Some of my friends that are taking or took the accounting five year program told me that all they do at the beginning of their career as an accountant is that they basically sit in front of a computer and due various kinds of stuff on Excel, so I'm very glad that I failed the computer skills exam at the beginning of the year and ended up taking this course. I learned a lot of features that would help me a in my future such as all different kinds of formulas, graphs, drop cap and many others. I forgot most of the stuff that we covered in class when I was in middle school but now I'm pretty sure that I can do most of the stuff in Excel, after taking this course.

Field Trip to CLT

Today was the first time that I've seen the CLT, I did not have any clue where it was,the first floor of the library. The best part of CLT is that you can go down whenever you want and you would always ask questions about latest programs such as web designing and photoshop. One can easily improve his skills by hanging at CLT. On the other hand, we can check out digital cameras and other equipments from CLT, but we have to tell our instructor to inform the people before so that we would easily check the material out.

Pictures that Lie

I chose the first picture, which is Katie Couric. I picked this picture because one can easily see the effect of programs such as photoshop very clearly, just looking at the two pictures which are side by side. The official first image was released by CBS in May and the other doctored image was released by the Watch magazine in September. The image was manipulated a lot, her skin color is brighter, she looks thinner and the color of her dress is changed from brown to black. All these manipulations made her look more sophisticated and pretty. CBS manipulated the image because they know that perfect appearance is a vital issue, so they tried to make her look as good as possible. I do not think the manipulations were harmful, they are just on the appearance of her, so basically it is not a big deal.