Week Two: PowerPoint

I have used PowerPoint for work a number of times over the years, but it was always for very basic presentations involving text and still photos. I knew that more was possible because I had seen more elaborate presentations, but didn't know how to do it. I'm very glad to have completed the step-by-step projects this week, because I now know how easy it is to take stagnant presentations and make them much more interesting and aesthetically pleasing. From applying themes to inserting charts to using different transitions, PowerPoint offers a wide variety of different ways to take presentations to the next level.

Week One

I learned that blogs are more than just a personal diary that contains photos and written entries. It's fine to use them for that, but there also are other purposes for them, such as group blogs (e.g., the Web Standards Project) and business blogs, which allow companies to promote their products and provide news and updates. Most importantly, blogs allow users to create clean, attractive and informative sites without having to be an expert in html or various other types of computer programming. Anybody - including me - can do it.