HTML blog

It is important to know how to use the HTML code, because web-authoring software is not always reliable. If one of the programs fails or is not doing what you tell it to do, you need to know how to fix that on the HTML code. If you did not know how to use HTML codes, you would not be able to manually fix the glitch. As Ms. Belisle informed us in class once, she was trying to bold some text in Expression Web, yet no matter how many times she highlighted and clicked bold, the program simply would not respond. How did she fix this problem? She knew the code and was able to bold the text.

It is important to know how to manually do things, because sometimes shortcuts fail us. You have to be able to have knowledge to revert back to.

PowerPoint Presentations

My 2 favorite PowerPoint presentations were Steven's and Ben's.
I was really interested in Stevens through the whole time. The music and pictures went well together and the information was concise but interesting.

In Ben's, I really liked how he made the baseball diamond animated with umpires that popped up in different locations in correlation with what he was talking about.

Both kept me interested, engaged, and visually stimulated throughout their presentations.

Chris Nolan

I thought the lecture Mr. Nolan gave us was very interesting. I was surprised, (and happy) to find out about google scholar. I search things a lot for research and always have to worry about whether my sources are credible or not, and sometimes that is difficult to tell. Now that I know about google scholar, finding credible sources will be easier and I can do my work more efficiently.

What surprised me to learn was that there is a difference between directories and search engines. To tell the truth, I hadn't heard of directories. I thought the only way to look things up was through search engines. Its nice to know that there are more specific ways to find sources and information.