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.