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.