Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Presentations Tues-April 17

Lathaniel
Great Presentation. Used a lot of pathos and is a great speaker. His topic was Anti-Gay bullying, and he created a website that focused on reaching out to gay kids in school. Starts of website and speech by using a persuasive quote saying "It can start with you". Lathaniel also uses videos to "hit home more." Really focusing on and has a passion for kids being bullied in school. Provides a guide to help teachers intervene with bullying because teachers are typically to scared. To help stop bullying, tell an adult, do not use physical violence. Overall, great presentation and really did a great job being proud in front of everyone to cause awareness

Vinnie
This topic was very interesting to me. It was about Lucid Dreaming. Vinnie keeps his composure while speaking and also did a very great job. His Multimodel was a poster with a very artistic picture of a hot air balloon with a person laying in the with dream bubbles rising into the balloon. The person resembles people and the balloon was being powered by the dreams. The balloon was separated in three different sections which resembled the three different arguments or reasons for Lucid Dreaming. These three were: a way to escape, improve motor skills, and to be at free will. On the picture, the right side of the balloon represented a business life to an escaping realty. On the left, it went from baseball to improving motor skills and in the middle it went from a courtroom to having absolute free will. Interesting thought Vinnie mentioned was that he got the images from google to represent what really is the first thing people think of when they hear these words of escaping reality, free will, improving motor skills, business, courtroom, and baseball. Another great presentation.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Multimodel Project

I will be doing my multimodel project in the form of a website. I am familiar with websites and believe I can do something interesting with it. Also, websites are a great way to include a lot of information, and that is exactly what my experiment entails. There is a lot of research to incorporate and this is the best way to display and present it.