Advice

Do your homework! You get a little every day and it may not seem like it is worth a lot of points, but they add up, so take 30 minutes out of your day and do it.

Student websites

My three favorite were Zach Wright's, Zack Claar's, and Paige Patrick's. Zach Wright's gave a good overview of Trinity. Zack Claar's was about bikes and it was very informative. I actually learned something. Paige's was about Art with a Heart and Camp Cavett. It was very colorful and appealing to the eye, and it was very informative about the charities she is involved with.

Website

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

Making my website wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. Microsoft Expression Web made it a lot easier than hand coding. It did end up turning into a lot more work than I thought, but it was not too hard. I am most proud of my Basketball section. I thought it looked the best. I did make a few changes to it including making the text larger in the nav bar and editing the margins on my future plans page. My biggest technical and design challenge was the title page. I had to edit the pictures in photoshop and create the whole thing there and then make hotspots to link to other pages. I will show my site to my friends and family. I will definately use these skills if I ever make another website.

Larry Hechler

Larry Hechler came to visit us last class period. Our maintenance people, which there are only four total, are charged with the repair of all computer equipment on campus. They maintain around 4000 peices of equipment! He also gave us some tips. For example, when cleaning your computer, keep your hands off the LCD screen. Never spray or put anything on the screen or keyboard that contains alcohol, ammonia, chlorine bleach, or acetone. Larry recommends a solution called Techspray. Also, when buying a computer, consider this. Dell has a 4 year complete warranty package. They will give you an entirely new computer should something happen to yours. Apple's warranty only lasts 2 years and only covers hardware failure. This tip is for Mac users. You can get windows on your Mac. Lastly,remember to back up everything on your computer. It would be a shame to lose everything you have or lose a term paper. Back it up.

Power Point Presentations

I didn't have to think too long about what I wanted to do in my presentation. Michael Jordan is by far my favorite player and I decided to do a biography on his career. My favorite part was the highlight tape I got from YouTube. I did not have to do anything and I got to watch Michael Jordan play. The one thing I would of changed was the background. I should of done a cool wallpaper instead of just colors. My other 2 favorite presentations were Zach Claar's and Zach Wright's. They were over biking and polevaulting. Zach Claar had a cool video that showed what heppens when the biker in the front falls. Zach Wright had a good animated GIF of him clearing 13 feet.

Pictures that Lie

I chose this picture to show how great the Trinity Basketball team is. I made this picture from 2 pictures off of the Trinity website of our in game photos and I got the other 3 pictures off of google. I cut all of them out and placed them in front of the crowd. It is manipulated because Trinity would never play the Lakers. It is not a harmful manipulation because everybody knows that we would beat the Lakers if we had the chance to play them..... It relates to the article I chose because it could be a example of a news organization manipulating a photo.

Citation
Lowrey, Wilson. "Normative Conflict in the Newsroom: The Case of Digital Photo Manipulation." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 18.2 (2003): 123. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 5 Apr. 2011.

"Digital photo manipulation is often treated in the literature as a problem that occurs when individuals stray from a single set of ethical standards."

Chris Nolan

Mr. Christopher Nolan came and talked to us about surfing the web. He gave us valuble information such as the uses of search engines, how to manipulate your search criteria, and why you get the results that you do. While there are many different search engines, Google is by far the most popular with a search engine market share of 66%. The next closest is Yahoo with only 16%. Search engines, such as Google, use algorithms to determine what websites to pull up. They also keep track of the number of hits a website obtains and give more weight to websites that are deemed as credible sources. Search Engine Optimization is a huge business now. Advertizers are all over the internet. Just how big is it? Well, Google is considering changing its search algorithms and that could cost businesses one BILLION dollars.