Power point

The five worst things a power point can have are bad color schemes, a lot of bullet points, a lot of information on the slides, bad font size and terrible pictures. All of these things make a horrible presentation but if these things are avoid an excellent powerpoint can happen.
The best reason for people to use powerpoint is to have a visual aid during their presentation and help the listeners have an image of whats being spoken.

CLT

Today in class we visited the AT&T Center for Learning and Technology. It is located in the very first floor of the library and it has 14 mac computers and 12 dell computers. Students here can get help in homework that involves media. For example, making a video or converting videos into DVDs. In here there is also a video conference room in where there are three big televisions and people can have conferences over video. After the tour we got to scan our worksheet into the computer. Now I know where I can go if I need help with media projects.

Revised blog for september 22- Copyright

Tuesday in class Mr. Jason Hardin gave a presentation about Copyrights and how they work and the consequences for violating them and even showed us how to copyright our own documents. I was very impressed with a lot of things I learned during his presentation. I thought CopyRights where a new thing from our generation but realy it goes back to 1790 when the first copyright law was passed. Now it is a very famous law and now a copyright work can be protected until 70 years after the death of the author.

We also learned how we as Trinity students should not download or illegally share files in our computers because they can easily be detected by the people who inforce the law and we may be fined.

My personal opinion on this is that back in Honduras I could easily use Limeware to dowload free music without having to pay it and it is something everbody does, but here in the United States I don’t think about downloading things into my computer because here you do get fined and it is a whole legal mess. I do understand why the artist copyright their songs but I really don’t understand why are there so huge fines if you break the law.

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Pictures that lie

I chose the Tv Guide cover of Oprah because of all the manipulated pictures I saw this one was the picture that impressed me the most. The picture is Oprah's face with the body of actress Ann-Margaret. The magazine did not ask the permission of neither of them and neither of them knew this was going to happen. Ann-Margaret's fashion designer was the one to figure it all out when he recognized the dress Oprah is "wearing." I think this picture is harmful because first of all they did not have their permission to do it and second of all having my face cut out to be put in a different body would be hurtful because they did not consider the rest of my body to be good enough for the cover and third of all what an ungrateful surprise both of them received when they saw this magazine cover.

The video I chose about image manipulation is a video from a Dove campaign for girls against the wrong image girls and women have about the models they see on magazines. Many girls and women try to be like the models and famous actresses they see on magazines and many girls become obsess with this perfect image that they see. Many girls and women end up having surgeries to get this image or many end up having eating disorders because they try so hard to get the perfect body of the perfect women on the magazine when in real life that image is manipulated.