PPT

Even though I feel pretty set on what I want to do when I graduate, I really enjoyed Lucy and Erin's presentations. They designed in a way that was very appealing and creative. However, and most importantly, they used certain elements which forced the audience to want more info about the topic. Lucy's video about brain hemispheres and Erin's promotion of the Communications Department really made me want to explore their fields of interests. And, of course, the design and layout of the presentations, as a whole, were very simple yet very appealing.

Some Things to Keep in Mind

For a PowerPoint Presentation, here are five things that I find very important -things that make or a break a presentation:

1) Use readable and professional font. It is quite annoying to a viewer when he or she can not read the information you are trying to present.
2) Use high quality graphics. Pictures or videos that are boring or of low-quality won't catch the viewer's attention
3) Use video or audio. Viewers will be much more interested in your presentation if you use such elements
4) Limit the amount of text. It is harder to keep the viewer's attention if one has to spend time reading what he or she needs to know.
5) Make your presentation emotional. Communicating is not necessarily through words but through the transfer of emotions.

The rise of modern architecture in today's society.

GoOgLE

When I have done research projects, I often get frustrated with the results that dear old Google provides. However, today I learned that the way Google finds what you're looking for causes many of those great scholarly and thorough articles to be towards the bottom of the page where many, including myself, usually never bother to look at. This is due to the fact that Google uses one criteria, as well as many others, to put the more "relevant" sites at the top - the frequency that such a site is visited. One example of this phenomenon can be seen when searching, let's say, for the biography of a particular individual. Wikipedia tends to come up first. Why? Because it is a site that is often visited.