Advice

The piece of advice that I give to students enrolling in this course next semester is, do not assume that you know everything. Yes, some of this information was review for me, but I was surprised when most of the subject matter was material that I had never learned before; which made the class better. It also made the class much more interesting.
I know this advice is more individual, but it will apply to some people.

Goodnight, and good luck.

Re: websites

Everyone did an amazing job on their websites. My first favorite was Luke's. I thought that to make a website abouut zombie survival was very creative. The youtube videos in particular made me smile. He also did a great job orginizing his information. Lynn's website was another favorite. I liked her because the design was great, plus I think that she has wonderful taste in music. My third, and final favorite was Jena's. Her atwork is amazing and I liked the background on her "Senior Memories" page.

My Website

I encourage you to visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~hmichael

 Making my website was pretty easy. I did run into problems with creating tables and getting things centered, but for the most part, organizing was not bad. When I made it I used expression web. Hand coding is much too tedious. I am most proud of my entertainment page with my movies and favorite bands. I think I had the most fun with that page. My biggest technological challenge was getting pictures and text centered. For some reason they would not line up right and I had to spend a lot of time trying to fix the problem. My technical problem is basically the same as my design problem. Getting the pictures to fit within the tables took a while to figure out. My site is personal, so the only people who I think would enjoy it are my friends and family; possibly people who want to get to know me better. I have no idea if I will make a site for another class. If I find out that I need to, I will definitely use the skills that I have taken from working on this project.

Larry Hechler: Hardware Lecture

Since I am not the most tech-savvy person, I learned a lot from today's lecture. The most interesting thing I learned was the hard drive itself. The first thing I did not know about it was that even if you took the battery out, your computer would still run as long as you have the power cord. I always thought that the battery was necessary even while a laptop was plugged in. The second piece of information I found useful was the "memory effect." I had no idea that a person was supposed to unplug the power cord and use their laptop until the battery went way down, then you recharge it. That will be something I remember because I constantly do that with my computer. Since the presentation, I have reformed my ways, so hopefully I'm helping my laptop survive another year or two. The final thing I found interesting was that the same company makes parts for both Dell and MAC, yet, Macs are more expensive. It is just ridiculous that the drastic price difference is the result of the brand name.

This is my photoshop picture. The first thing I did was add a yellow gradient. I chose a light color because I wanted to make the picture look errie. Next, I used the magnetic lasso tool to insert the picture of my friend Cassie and I. After I did that, I decided to make the picture black and white. After making the photo black and white, I played around with the contrast and saturation to give us a more ghostly appearence. I used the blur tool to get rid of the rough edges. The brush tool to got rid of our eyes and the paint brush tool to put red in their place.

 The article I found is entitled "Give Counterfeit Reality a Closer Look." One thing that the article discusses are child pornography cases. In these cases defendants argue that a child may not even be real. Therefore, no one really knows if the defendant is guilty or innocent. The article also discusses things that the government should do to correct this problem because it is getting increasingly difficult to recognize counterfeit images. Photoshop gives people the ability to manipulate a photo completely. Look at the photo to the left. I found it on Google. The manipulation was probably done for fun and is pretty harmless. It relates to my article, because instead of aging down, this person decided to age Angelina Jolie up.

Plummer, Daryl. "Give Counterfeit Reality a Closer Look." USA TodayPrint.

Power Point Presentation

I did my power point presentation on the Stanford Prison Experiment. The experiment took place in 1971, in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Department building. Philip Zimbardo, the conductor of the experiment, took a group of male volunteers and divided them randomly into guards and prisoners. Within five days, Zimbardo discovered that the young men had become the roles they were placed in. The experiment was done to see if people assume the roles that they are told to play in society. Prior to this presentation, I  had learned a little bit about the experiment in my social psychology class. However, I really enjoyed reading more about it. During my presentation I would have focused more on the experiment itself as opposed to the setup.

One of my favorite presentations was Luke's presentation on biological warfare. I thought that the presentation flowed very well and it kept me interested, which says a lot because I am not a science person. I found it interesting and really scary that biological warfare will probably be the next generation of war. Luke appeared confident and familiar with the material. Jena's power point was my other favorite. Although everyone has heard about the "thin ideal" it is just really interesting to hear some of the real research. I thought she did a good job presenting and had a really interesting topic.

Nolan

One thing I learned that I never knew before was that depending on what computer you used, a presentation may show up differently. It would be a good idea to pull up your presentation on more than one computer. Another thing I did not know was that newspapers should not be used in academic papers. I had always been under teh impression that they could be used as long as they were from a respectable newspaper. A third piece of information that I did not know was that you have to be careful with .edu sites because a student can put their own work on their .edu page.
These were just a few of the things I learned after listening to Chris Nolan speak to us.

Power Point

I have seen quite a few bad power point presentations throughout my educational career. One thing that people do to slides is they put too much information on one individual slide. I was always told that it is pointless to have all of your text on a slide, because then people are reading the slide instead of listening to what you have to say. Another thing that people do is they put funky backgrounds on their slides. Backgrounds like that make it harder for people to read.In addition, avoid the fancy fonts. Keeping slides simple is one of the top things to be aware of when creating a power point. When using graphics, use them to add to your presentation, not cover it up. Do not fill your slides up with pointless pictures that have nothing to do with your topic. When creating a power point presentation, make sure that it flows. There should be no random slides in your presentation.
Power point presentations can be good when someone if presenting data. I have seen some good presentations in my first year seminar. What some of my classmates did was put charts and graphs on their slides. They would discuss what the graph meant and gave us plenty of time to read them. The charts gave us something to look at while they talked about how the data related to their topic. Other things that I look for in a good power point presentation is pace. The presenter needs to give the audience enough time to read each thought before moving on. These are just some of the qualities of a good power point.

CLT

I had never been to the AT&T Center for Learning and Technology before. When I first walked in I thought it looked like every other computer lab. I liked that there were both Macs and PCs. I am more familiar with Dells than I am with Macs. Plus, I thought it was really cool that most of the computers had a scanner right next to them. When I used it to scan my self portrait onto the computer, I was really happy that it was easy to figure out. I would definitely use CLT for this class. Although I have my own scanner, I can take advantage of the scanners in CLT if I know that I'll be working in the library. I can see myself coming back to CLT to do projects for this class, but I have no idea if I will need to come back for other classes.

Photos Lie

I cannot say that I love Oprah, but I have a lot of respect for her, which is why I chose this photo. This photo struck me because the body does not match the face at all; the proportions are just all wrong. he photo was created by Dartmouth grad Hany Farid. The body image is of Ann-Margret and was taken in 1979 as a publicity shot. On the cover of TV Guide, Oprah's head was placed on Ann-Margret's body. The photo was most likely created for the purpose of humor. Aside from making Oprah and Ann-Margret unhappy,I do not believe this photo was meant to harm anyone. The photo may have been created to relate the power of a woman to her body image, or it could have something to do with Oprah's yo-yo weight loss.





This was just amazing. This was one of the first videos I found and it just amazed me. I believe it shows that, through photo manipulation anyone can be beautiful. Knowing what can be done to a photo of an old woman should show what extremes can also been taken to improve the photo of a celebrity. Therefore, young people should consider how much a beauty shot is manipulated before it becomes the cover of a fashion magazine. This should remind everyone that no one is perfect, not even celebrities because basically every photo that gets taken of them is manipulated in one way or another.

Excel

Before this class, I had only been briefly introduced to Excel. I was familiar with some of the basic formulas. For example I knew how to add, multiple, and subtract data, but for the most part I did not know too much. When I started taking Statistics for Business and Economics during my first semester here at Trinity I had to reacquaint myself with Excel. So, by the time we reached Excel in this class I had gotten some of my skills back. Some of the things I did not know prior to this section were percents and formatting. I liked learning how to make the cells look pretty instead of being plain white. As I said before, these skills will come in handy during my Statistics class where I have to do something with Excel in each assignment. I do not really know when I will use Excel in my real life. I would consider using it to make a schedule or calculate my grades, just as a backup. I like that Excel makes things easier. For instance, I enjoy not having to retype a formula over and over again. I do find Excel boring at times, but I did learn a lot of new things about Excel.

Copyright and Creative Commons

Today in class we heard from Jason Hardin. During his lecture, he discussed copyright laws. I was familiar with some of what Mr. Hardin talked about, but a majority of the lecture was new information. One thing that interested me was the story that he told us about the girl from Trinity who had illegally downloaded 10-12 songs, but was then served with a subpoena. She had to pay the music industry about one thousand dollars for each song she downloaded.

I have heard of these types of situations before, but I always find them fascinating. Although I feel bad for the girl, I have to side with the music industry. I do not know about everyone else, but I have learned from a young age that it is illegal to download music off the internet. However, people still do it. I personally have friends that download all of their music illegally. Every time someone downloads music and videos off of the internet the film and music industries loses profit. This situation is handled the same way as any other case involving theft. Therefore, it was the girl’s fault for choosing to download her music illegally. 

Copyright and Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

My Trinity Network Diagram

My diagram begins at the star in the upper left hand corner. From there all you have to do is follow the arrows. I only chose to use one of the pictures that Ms. Belisle took because I thought that the diagram would look too weird if all I had were pictures of wires. At the end of the diagram you will end up in the middle of the screen looking at the at&t and Time Warner Cable symbols with a brief description below it. Hope you think its informative, yet fun! 

Trinity Mystery Spot

This is a place I see everyday. Although it is an enclosed space, I think the trees and the greenery are absolutely beautiful. The only part I dislike about this spot is the bugs. I decided to use Picnik to edit my photo. I chose to make a lot of small, little changes so that my picture could still be recognized. First, I added green text to the bottom to give the photo a little more color. I also wanted to make the edges hazy and give the photo a round frame so that it would look like an old-time picture with a modern twist.

Can you guess where it is?

Best Tech Tip

Yesterday we heard from Joe Hatch. One thing Joe talked about was ccleaner. I found ccleaner interesting because I have had a lot of space issues with my computer. I had actually been talking to my mom about my computer's lack of space. Sure enough, the next day I hear about this great program that we can download for free that will get rid of some of the useless material that just sits in my computer. Another thing that caught my attention was the information he gave us about Trinity's two networks: TUsecure and TUguest. I had a problem figuring out these two networks during my first few days here at Trinity. The other important thing I learned from Joe's presentation is that Adobe Reader can make your computer more vulnerable.
I found Joe's presentation to be very useful, especially because I am not a computer-savvy person.

Hello There

Hello, my name is Hannah Michaelsen. I am eighteen years old and I turn ninteen on October twenty-third. I am one of three children. My older sister, Rebekka attends Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee. She will graduate in May. My younger brother, Christian is a sophomore at Frisco High School. Some of my interests include exercising, reading, and talking to friends. I currently have no idea what activities I want to get involved in here at Trinity. However, I plan on attending the Student Involvement Fair tonight. I have only taken a basic computer class in high school, so my computer knowledge is pretty basic. I know how to navigate Microsoft Word, Power Point, and the internet. During this course I hope to advance my computer skills and learn a little bit about graphic design.

hmichael@trinity.edu

My secret fact is that I have only lived in TX for three months. I moved here from RI.