in school and in their future lives. Through oral history, students give individuals a chance to participate in the creation of the historical retelling of their lives. Instead of doing a boring essay about someone’s history, students can create PowerPoints, scrapbooks, posters, or other creative presentations. This project allows students to ask the questions they are interested in because they formulated their own questions. It also provides a rich opportunity for human interaction. Students…
Life after Death by PowerPoint A PowerPoint presentation can be an effective tool for delivering information to various audiences in various environments, to include educational and corporate settings. In a business environment, an individual will have to deliver a PowerPoint presentation at some point during his or her career (CSU-Global, 2015). Just as PowerPoint can be an effective method for delivering information, if not used appropriately - from formatting poorly, to merely…
On September 6, 2016 I attended the Leaders in Family Education (LIFE) professional student organization meeting. The meeting was located in Matthews Hall 311, there we were told about the main goals of LIFE, how to join, and how we would benefit from participating in this organization. We also enjoyed a presentation on hearing loss vs. deafness lead by representatives from the Speech and Hearing Sciences program at UNT. I found out about this opportunity through my classes and thought that it…
tools such as Power Point in the most effective manner possible requires fore thought, planning, and proper informational context. The following is a brief synopsis of the dos and don’ts of Power Point presentation as a multimedia tool. “Death by PowerPoint” The provided handout presents very relevant information to those incorporating multi-media tools within a presentation. As the article states (Duke University Center for Instructional…
Please forgive my typos. It’s late. 1. What percentages of your events are created in ERS vs. somewhere else? -None because each of the 14-18 mentors we hire each semester must host 2 events per month and that would mean you would have that number of students logging into the system; while I could designate 1-2 students or my GA to post events on the ERS system for the PM’s, I think since we do so many, unless I could have my own section for our program, it might get confusing for students…
In 2010 a major box office hit was Toy Story 3. With its Pixar tile and multiple awards for animation, Toy Story 3 became an American classic. A key factor that makes Pixar films so endearing to movie patrons are its stunning and punctilious animations. Pixar tends to leave conspicuous “Easter Eggs,” or references to past and future movies, to be discovered by audiences. For example, Pizza Planet truck from the original Toy Story is referenced in every Pixar film at least once. With this, many…
Animation is the method of taking still images and presenting them in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion. The contrast between animation and video is video takes constant movement and splits it up into frames. You have many different types of animation. Usually the main ones used are Traditional animation, Stop animation and Computer Generated animation. Traditional animation is created by drawing every frame by hand. Then these frames are coloured and scanned onto a computer and…
DreamWorks and Pixar have been long time rivals in the movie industry. Many people argue over which of these animation studios is the better of the two. Pixar is the better animation studio because they are known for many box office hits like Up, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc. Although hits are all DreamWorks produces, they have only won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature for Shrek and Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Pixar has won "…Best Animated Feature Oscar seven of the past 12…
Hayao Miyazaki it is a Japanese animator that very influential in animation area. Thus, there are many featured film that he made such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and many more and every of his film that his made there are several of similarity that can be found on hisfilm such as the technique that he uses, the styles and the concept of his story. However, Hayao Miyazaki had his own uniqueness when he made an animation film even though it has a similarity from with his other film but…
Animation is the process of making the vison of motion and the figment of change by different means such as, fast moving display of images that follow upon one another and that do only have small changes to them to form an animation. Animators are artists that specialize in the creation of animation. There are a few different creation methods in animation, Traditional animation, Stop-motion animation, Computer animation, 2D animation, 3D animation. Traditional animation (Cel Animation) - The…