My PowerPoint Advice

Here are 5 PowerPoint Tips that I found really useful:

1. Never use more than 6 words per slide
2. Avoid cartoonish clip art and go for photographs (they are more emotionally engaging)
3. Never, ever read from a slide
4. Have a handout for your audience which you give them AFTER your presentation
5. Avoid templates and design your own background to fit your theme and message

I hope these tips were as helpful for you and they are for me!

Photoshop Trial Run

This is my photo tribute to my favorite building on campus, the Dicke Art Building.

Chris Nolan's Presentation

Chris Nolan’s presentation explained a few things I had never realized. The most interesting new fact I found out about was Google Scholar. I have heard people talk about it, but I had never used it. Now, I think I can use Google Scholar as a good starting point for my research projects. Also, Google Books sounded very interesting as well. I love when writers make parts of their books availabe—it always makes me want to finish the whole book. So, for books in the public domain or small samples of recent works, I think this will also be a good resource.

What surprised me the most was the last website we visited, martinlutherking.org. It was a clear, dramatic example that any one can make anything look legitimate, so it’s always more than worth it to check your sources before you use something or recommend a site to someone. The saddest part was that if you didn’t really look closely, the website looked like a site a middle schooler might use to get information for a report. That the site looked like it was geared to lure in unsuspecting kids was disgusting and shocking.