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My advice for people who take this course: You should always come to class because if you miss a day, then you will be very behind on work in class and will have no idea how to do homework assignments.

My favorite web site

My top three favorite websites are as follows: Autumn Goodin's, Claire Afflerbach's, and Katy Silva's.  I enjoyed the overall layout of Autumn's site. She was also able to have a pictured navigation bar that corresponded to each page, which is also aesthetically pleasing.  Claire Afflerbach's site looked very professional.  It looked like the actual club's site.  I really enjoyed how she had single color theme, and the overall organization of events and officers. Katy Silva's site was perfect for her audience.  Every background on each site had a different colored pattern.  Her site looked like an artwork.  I enjoyed the page with her own artwork.  The pictures blended well with her background, which I also loved.

My website

Please visit my website: www.cs.trinity.edu/~ktavakol
Making a website was alot easier than I thought once I passed the difficulty of understanding web expressions and Kompozer.  I used expression web for my website.  I am most proud of my testing and treatement page because I love my lay-out, colors, and graphics I used to convey my message. I might have changed my nav bar, but i still like the simplicity of it. My biggest technical challenge was the centering and making my table with my information look astethically pleasing.  I had trouble with some of my pictures because I moved some pictures in a different file, and had to change the location of the picture after I did that.  I will show my site to other pre-med students.  My focus for my site was more informative, less decorative, so I think my peers will enjoy my site.  In the future I will create a site probably for my own medical studies.  I enjoyed making this site, even though at times it was frustrating.

\\sol.cs.trinity.edu\\ktavakol\local\ . Then go into the html documents and copy/paste all my websites and image folders.

Larry Hechler

Last week Larry Hechler came in to talk about computer hardware.  He stressed many interesting points that I have found quite useful to know.  With over 30 years of experience in the repair field, Mr. Hechler knew what he was talking about.  He said that one should always back up their information using an external hard drive because the computer hard drive can fail or malfunction.  He informed us that Dells are good computers to buy because they have complete care, which means if anything happens to the computer (accidental or not) Dell will replace the computer or fix it for free.  Knowing all of this, I think my next computer will be a Dell, and I will also buy an external hard drive to back-up my information.

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My Picture that Lies: Statue of Liberty

I chose this picture because I wanted to see how funny I would look on the statue of liberty.  I also wanted to see the different effects of lighting and hue to my face.  I got the picture from stock exchange.  I used the eye dropper tool to match my facial color with the color of the statue.  I also decreased the brightness, increased saturation, and decreased the lighting.  It was manipulated to make it look like my face belonged in the statue.  It was also manipulated to show that I was welcoming visitors to New York.  The manipulation was not harmful because most people know that my face is not actually plastered to the statue of liberty.  The article I read was about how big news corporations and magazines manipulate pictures to match their stories.  This is a common occurrence in today's society.  TV guide magazine inserted Oprah's face onto the body of a model.  They do this to make Oprah seem more attractive and glamorous. Similar to Oprah's picture, I took my face and inserted into the statue of liberty to make me look more interesting.  Oprah's picture was harmful because people who look at it might not know what Oprah's body actually looks like, but my picture is not harmful because it is obvious that I am not on the statue of liberty.  Overall, this was a very enjoyable experience. 

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. 11 Nov. 2010.

Presentation

The subject of my presentation was becoming a multilingual medical doctor.  I learned how there are many neglected diseases in the world that many do not pay attention to, which gave me even more incentive to become a medical doctor.  I also learned how to put a youtube video into powerpoint.  I really liked changing the transition of text and slides to something aesthetically pleasing to the eye.  I really enjoyed seeing Langston's presentation.  Seeing how the tectonic plates moved with different types of animation was quite impressive.  I learned a wealth of information about tectonic plates.  I also really liked Mariana's presentation.  She is a Spanish major and I learned about the different cities in Mexico.  She informed us that she had lived in the country until she was nine years old.  She also told us that they call the capital city "D.F."  I loved how her pictures would change to other pictures during each slide.  I thought that was very creative. Overall, I learned alot

Chris Nolan Presentation

I found the presentation by Chris Nolan to be very interesting and informative.  Most of the presentation was about how Google has solidified its role in the search engine market (google's search engine market share is at 66%) and the different ways one can use google. I learned that google scholar allows one to see      journals, books, peer reviews, and other scholarly works.  Google scholar also does not have any advertisement.  Google advanced can narrow your search results and one can use it to see which sites are open to be used by any student.  I was quite surprised to know that google has 99% of shares in the search engine phone market, and that Trinity pays 1.3 million yearly to use published works.  Overall, the majority of Nolan's information was quite new to me.