My 3 favorite websites were Daniel Hoin, Stew Vandusen, and Max Fisher's. First I liked Daniel's because he had a great background. Also, he had a lot of funny pictures. Next, I like Stew's because it was very funny and satirical because he was trying to disprove all the stereotypes about Canadians. Also, his video was very funny. Lastly, I like Max's because it was a nice touch how he put a printable resume in the website. I still don't know why anyone would need one. My website is at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~tdawson.

HTML Code

A web designer needs to know html code because the web program they are using might not always work and when it doesn't work they need to know html code to continue their work without the program. Also, sometimes you will have to teach someone, who doesn't know how the program works, how to make a website. Lastly, no web page program is perfect and it might mess up, so by knowing html code you will be able to check all the computer's work if there is a problem.

What not to do on power point

Have you seen the same thing over and over again whenever you see a power point? This happens because there is only so much a person can customize on a power point. Also, in this a lot of people don't know the guidelines to making a power point. Some of my pet peeves about power points are too many words on a page, same color font and background color, spelling errors, too many bullets, and too many actions. First, if a person puts too many words on a slide, the audience will be spending too much time reading your power point than listening to the presenter. Also, this shows that you are not a very confident presenter and don't know your subject because you will be reading the whole time off the slides instead of engaging the audience. Next, is using the same type of colors on the background as the fonts. This causes great strain on the audience because their eyes can’t focus on the words and gives them headaches. Also, they can’t read your information. Then there is the people who are in a big hurry to turn their power point in and they forget to check the grammar and spelling in their slides. This provokes readers to stop reading because they can’t understand what your try to say because they can’t read the words. After that there is the problem with people using too many bullet points on a slide. This is a problem because it creates to small of words and not enough info on a bullet point to make sense. This person needs to make more slides or take out information that is less important.

Serching the web

The thing I learned most from Chris Nolan is how Google lists its websites. First they list the websites by sponsored links or not. Then the next criteria’s the relevance of the website by looking at how many times the keywords of your search occur. The last criterion is how many websites have linked this page to their website.

copyright

"Fair use" is the use of something that is copyrighted without paying any kind of dues to the copyright holder. This "fair use" can extend to reporting news, parody, criticism, research, and for some educational purposes. The big problem of this "fair use" is about education because it only extends to cover use of copyright material when there is not due time to contact to the copyright owner. For example, if a teacher reads something in the newspaper that morning and wants to show it to her class. I think "fair use" should extend to cover all material used to educate people in schools because this is for the good of the nation. Also, this would free up money in schools for more important investments like new facilities and more classes offered to students. Instead money has to be spent on book and copyrighted material. Also, with this the books are usually kept in high schools for at least ten years and they would not be current material to teach people with.
On the other side of this argument there is the copyright owner's side of the deal. The owner of the copyright wants to make money off this copyright because that is why they did it. They find it reasonable for teachers to pay them for using their material if there is time for them to get in contact with them.

Excel

Going into the unit on Excel I learned a lot because I had no prior knowledge on that subject. I knew a person could make charts and graphs and it could be used as a calculator. I learned many of the basics of Excel through Mrs.Belisle's teaching like, basics functions and using graphs. Also, I learned about absolute cell references and that a person can make work sheets and complex calculations on Excel. In the future I will be using Excel a great deal for projects and reports. Also, I plan to major in accounting or some business field so I will have to use excel a lot to show trends in business and economy. Also, while we were learning Excel I had to do a paper on my health in wellness for a class and I was glad that I had been learning Excel because it made the paper much less of a headache. Excel is a useful tool for academics and business because it has simplified ways of representing information, whether it is graphs, tables, or anything else.

The Lies of pictures

I picked the picture of Katie Couric because this picture to me showed the most drastic change from the original. The first photo was released by CBS. The Other picture came from the September issue of Watch magazine. This photo has many alterations that made the picture more ascetically pleasing. The first is the obvious slimming down of Katie Couric. In slimming down Mrs. Couric's body, the person shortened her shoulder width, and then took most of the fat out of her body. Then the light was dimmed and took it's reflection out of Mrs. Couric's face. This took the yellow out of the picture and darkened it. This manipulation was done because CBS didn't want to draw anyone away from watching Katie Couric. Also, Mrs. Couric didn't want to show the world what she looked like and showed the audience what they wanted to see and not what she really was. Manipulating pictures is just the same as lying to someone. They misrepresent the truth which could have serious consequences to people who participate in the altering of photographs.

Going Wireless

I like having a fully wireless campus, so I can do homework for class wherever I choose. Also, if I need help on homework or a project I can bring my computer to a friend’s room and not have to worry about having enough Ethernet cords for everyone. It is also, good because my RM had our whole group together to play the Wikipedia game. The game is where you start at one subject on Wikipedia then using the links you have to get to the other subject in the least amount of steps. There are many articles on college campuses around America going wireless. The one I found is by USA today, just click link to see it.

The Late Night Disaster

If it was nine o'clock at night, the night before my assignment is due for computer skills class. Then I start up my computer and i get the "blue screen of death". First, its nine o'clock at night so nobody is asleep, so i would first ask friends if i could use their computer to do my homework. If for some reason no one will let me use there computer i would most likely got to one of the comp labs in lower campus.

My walk through life

My name is Tory Dawson and I'm from Austin, Texas. Here is where I live: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.268735,-97.745209&z=11&t=h&hl=en
one thing not many people know about is that I am an eagle scout which took me about 12 years to achieve. My interests are playing any sport, hanging out with friends, being with my girlfriend, and just about anything outdoors. I went to high school at Westlake High School in Austin and played many sports there like football and wrestling. During our second to last game before the state championship game I tore my ACL while getting hit by another football player. Also over the break I got another surgery on that knee. My on campus activities are playing football, spending time with friends and working out in the weight room or cardio room. I currently have a girlfriend who goes to Texas State and she is also my age. We have been together for a year and 4 months. I don't have much computer experience other than regular use of it to do simple things like writing papers and surfing the internet. Also I took a class junior year of high school. The class took through the basics of word, access, and excel. My email address is tdawson@trinity.edu.