Power Point

The worst of Power Point offenses occurs when the lecturer is ready to move onto the next slide but has to play through an extra thirty seconds of animation.  I also hate annoying animation sounds.  It's frustrating when there is either too much or too little information on a slide.  I don't know why people use light type as it's difficult to read, and I also hate it when pictures move around too much.  The best powerpoint I ever saw focused on Renaissance Art, with each slide devoted to one or two works.  It was an effective way to present such a large amount of material.

CLT

I am so glad I now know about the amazing resource I have in CLT. With its dozens of computers and 9 scanners, CLT makes having my own compuiter seem almost impractical. What reallystruck me was the conference room. That set-up is ridiculous and is appaerntly nice enough to warrant a teleconference with the secretary of state! I was excited to learn about CLT's making acquiring specially-requested software a priority. I want to go play on the video-editing software. Those computers will definitely come in handy in this class when we do more photo editing. Robert Chapman seemed like a really nice guy; his enthusiasm for technology was infectious. Below is a picture of our beloved Ms Belisle trying to contain her excitement for CLT.

This picture of Martha Stewart's head cropped onto a model's body appeared on the Newsweek cover.  I'm not sure why they chose to do this -- I didn't realize Martha was the object of mush ogling but I guess the editors wanted the cover to appeal to as wide a base as possible, from lonely housewives to lonely men. This type of photo editing is very harmful as it gives women an unrealistic projection of what they "should" look like.  At least this one isn't directed at young girls.  My video is of a picture of Angelina Jolie being altered.  I think it is more to show what kinds of cool thing can be done with photoshop than to show editing in a bad light.