Computer Skills Advice

I think it is important for new students coming into the Computer Skills course to, like in any other class, come to class and keep up with the homework because otherwise it becomes very easy to fall behind. Most importantly though, I think it would be really helpful for new students to have a positive attitude, because they really will learn a lot of useful and fun things about computers they never would have before!

Student Web Sites

This past week in computer skills we all created our own web sites. Every ones page came out really well but among my favorites were Kim, Marilou, and Emily's. All three girls had consistent backgrounds and well organized and designed pages. Also their navigation bars were easy to find and you could access each page from any of the other pages. I liked Emily's "special interests" and "entertainment" pages and the vibrant pictures Marilou used to show the Philippines. I also liked the characters Kim draws and how her nav bar had a picture of color pencils to illustrate her interests. Great job girls!
You can visit my own website at cs.trinity.edu/~ltamez

PowerPoint Presentations

Today in class we finished up the PowerPoint presentations. I really enjoyed Jenni and Elena's presentations. Elena used a very cool background  picture with old fashion pens and ink. She had just the right amount of words on each slide and the way she had them slant was a very good design choice. I had also never heard of her topic and I thought writing a novel in one month is very interesting and cool. Jenni's design was also very good. I thought the black background was simple but extremely effective. I liked how she would switch to a red font on all the last bullet points and the pictures also added emotion to the presentation. I think Doctor without Borders is a very important thing and I thought it was interesting to learn there are also jobs in non medical fields with this company.  

Great Job Girls!