Advice

Future students! The best advice I can give to you is do your assignments early and if you are lost ask for help immediately or else it is easy to get lost.

Favorite Blogs

My favorite websites were Lauren Henderson's website about Trinity Womens Soccer. I loved the layout of her website it looked so professional. I also liked her website because I love going to all of the games so it was fun to see a website dedicated to the soccer team. The other website I enjoyed was Nyk's blog because the layout was great and all the pictures were awesome. I just got very hungry as I browsed his site because all the food looks so good.

My Website

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~slasterh

Making a website was a little bit harder than I had imagined. I used Expressions web to make my website. The section I'm most proud of is Positano and Roma. These pages are my favorite because the images worked the best with the layout as well as that these were my favorite places. If I had more time and more experience with Expressions Web I would have fixed the images on each of the sections because some images wouldn't change sizes. The other problem I had was changing the format to have the titles be in heading 1 however, they were set to default to the previous style and wouldn't change. The biggest design challenge was changing the photo sizes and making sure the images weren't pix elated. I will probably show my website to family and friends. I'm not sure if I will make another website in the future but I might have to make one for a future job.

Larry Hechler

Last Thursday in class we were lucky enough to have computer expert Larry Hechler come talk to our class. I know how to use computers however, I don't know the insides of them. Larry took apart both a computer and a laptop in our class. I learned from Larry that both Macs and PCs are essentially the same things. The most useful piece of information I got from Larry was to always let your computer battery run all the way down to zero. If you always have your computer charging then your computer will think it doesn't have any battery when its not plugged in. So, if you continually charge your computer it ruins the battery. Now I know to let my computer charge only when it doesn't have any battery left.

Pictures that Lie

I read an article by Monya Baker discussing how a Dartmouth professor developed a software to detect photo fakery. I think this is extremely interesting because then if there was a controversial image which people believed was edited they could determine this with the software. Monya also goes onto discuss that every image has the potential to be fake. I find this unfortunate because then the art of photography might be questioned because it might be "fake". However, if Monya looked at my image below she might not need this software to determine that the image is in fact a fakery. My image relates to this article in the sense that every image does have the potential of being fake.

I chose to make a photo that lied using the Seattle Space Needle. The original photo of the Space Needle I found online and was probably taken by a tourist. The other photo that I included was of a man who was cleaning the windows of the Space Needle. The final touch I added I got from the movie Austin Powers because I put around the glass STARBUCKS TOWER. Clearly, the Space Needle isn't the Starbucks Tower. I also changed the hue of the two different photos to make them look as though it was always one photo. I thought combining all of these elements into a photo would be funny because Seattle does love their coffee especially Starbucks. However, with the man who was originally cleaning the windows of the Space Needle he looks as though he is repelling from the observation deck. I don't think that the manipulation I did was harmful I think it just gave the picture some humor.

Works Cited
Baker, Monya. "Photoshop Sleuths." Technology Review 108.2 (2005): 82. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.

Power Point Presentations and Critiques

The subject of my powerpoint presentation was Event Planning. I liked the color scheme of my presentation. I learned how to put a youtube video into my powerpoint. I would have changed how the slideshow of pictures looked on the second to last slide to have them fit the screen better. My two favorite presentations were Biological Warfare and Neonatal Stress. The Biological Warfare presentation impressed me with the layout and because it was a very interesting topic. I liked the Neonatal Stress powerpoint because it had a clean layout and the topic was well researched. Overall, all the powerpoint presentations were very good.

Chris Nolan

Chris Nolan came to talk to our class last Thursday. He gave us a lot of useful information about the Library because he is the Assistant University Librarian. We learned about how to search for information on the internet and change the search options to get more relevant results. I always have used google as my main browser. However, I didn't know all of the advanced search options there were. I learned that you can control what type of sites come up in the result list in terms of whether they are .edu, .gov, or .org. Another thing I learned about was what cached means. When you search something in google usually below the link there is something that says "view cached link" this is the last copy of the site that was indexed. So, when the website is down you can click on the cached version and you are still able to read what was there. Next time when I have to do a research paper I will be able to find better resources by using the advanced search options.