PowerPoint Tips

PowerPoint is very useful tool when presenting information, but if the presentation is poorly structured and designed, the presentation may not be received very well by your audience. Here are some tips for a good presentation:
1) Keep your presentation simple. Too much text in slides can confuse the audience give focus to a non focal subject.
2) Use appropriate colors. If the subject is business related then avoid using bright, loud colors. Stick to a color theme, bouncing around from color to color is not ideal.
3) Use appropriate fonts. It is very annoying when reading material in an awkward font, the audience may be put off by this.
4) Use graphics and animations. The audience can get bored with only reading, adding pictures provides visual aid and a break from reading.
5) Try to avoid using too many animations. Waiting for a slide to fade in can get bothersome.

Color Optional?

My picture composition alludes to the choices in life, one can stay in the normal middle ground and an average colored life, work hard for the unknown high ground with many colors or waste their lives in the low ground with no color at all.

Google Expert

I learned so many new things about Google and searching for items on the internet. Google is the number one used search engine and made searching easier by making more relevant results show first. Google is known for it's 'I'm feeling lucky button which brings up the first page result in your search, the creators were so confident in their new relevancy searching that they added this button to prove themselves. Some new things I learned were that Page rank was created by a man named Page and it allows the pages with the most links to that page come up first, ultimately bringing up the most popular sources. This however, does make more scholarly sources harder to find, but Google has tools to get around this, refining your search to only show scholarly results is possible. I also learned how to refine your search to only show results from specific types of website .gov and .org for example. Something that surprised me about Google was the ability to change the language to show things like Pirate and Elmer Fudd.