GoogleDocs and Presentations

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This is the last question for my Final Exam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Basically, I used trial and error in order to properly make my PowerPoint presentation into a GoogleDoc Presentation. I think I did a pretty good job myself.

GoAnimate!

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Third question for my ENVT 154 final exam:

1) I've chosen GoAnimate as my program.

2) I liked a lot of the characters you can use. Some of them were pretty comical ( as you'll see in the video I created...).

3) I disliked how you had to pay a fee to use all the characters, voices or backgrounds. Though I suppose in the end they are a company and need to make money in some capacity.

4) In the future I may use GoAnimate to make some silly videos or basic video layouts, though I doubt I'll use it for school again as I don't think it projects a very professional tone.

5) Here is a video that my girlfriend and I made using GoAnimate:
http://goanimate.com/movie/0Ec7ygl6_wrc?utm_source=linkshare&uid=0B3nkELX03tg

Wiki's~

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Here is another question for my ENVT 154 final exam!

1)Truthfully I never completed the assignment related to this question. It was too hard to correspond with so many people on so many topics, and the instructions themselves were kind of vague.I was frustrated with trying to organize the assignment and rely on other people to get their work done as well, especially when I had other projects to work on for my other classes. So eventually I gave up on the assignment. I will however link you to a wiki-style page that I did write on my own free time during the summer:
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rak%27Gol (my user name is Hive Node)

I will use my experience writing this and other wiki articles to answer the rest of the questions.

2) See number one.

3)The benefit of a wiki is the ability for people to share information. It is an oper source encyclopedia that allows millions of users to veiw and edit information freely, adding their unique knowledge on a subject in an un-biased way. It is a useful tool that allows a person to find information on a wide variety of topics in the blink of an eye, making some harder to find information universally available to anyone who is interested in it.

4) The difficulties I've faced with wikis is their formatting. Wiki's use an interesting formatting that uses a lot of asterisks and apostrophes to properly format information of the page. This requires a user to preview their work a lot to make sure all their formatting is coming together. Sometimes as well imputting all those characters can get a little repetitive.

ENVT 154 Final Exam!!!

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I have to write a short paragraph about Carbon Copy??? Here it goes:

Carbon copying is a method used produce one or more copies of a document. This can be done either digitally, or manually. Carbon paper can be placed between two pieces of paper to copy what is written on the top sheet. The writing tool (pen, pencil, crayon) provides enough force to transfer the carbon on the carbon paper to the underlaying sheet of paper with similar marks. The practical limit to this stacking is about 5 copies before the sheets are too thick to make copies.

In e-mail, carbon copying allows a copy of an e-mail to one person to be sent to another e-mail address (CC:). This allows multiple copies of an e-mail to be sent to many people (it is similar in ways to Forwarding an e-mail...).

Computer Proficiency and Brachiopods

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So right now, we were asked to write a blog post detailing what we've learnt over the past week regarding computers for our Computer Proficiency course. Truthfully, I haven't really learnt anything new, as most of the material being covered so far is fairly basic information. the one new thing that I did learn though, was that you can drag a window to the top of the desktop in Windows 7 as an alternative way to maximize it. That's pretty neat I suppose.

Earlier today, my classmates and I went on a field trip to a geological formation of sedimentary limestone in Fort McMurray. The limestone contained some pretty cool fossil sponges and invertebrates, and I collected a piece containing a brachipod as well as some other assorted shells, so I'll have to post a picture of that up later.



Platystrophia ponderosa - Photograph taken by Mark A. Wilson (Department of Geology, College of Wooster.)

University Shenanigans

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Haha, so it seems that I have to begin using my blog in my Environmental Technologies course. So far the courses have been pretty straight forward, but enjoyable, luckily for me, I already know most of the instructors.

So I guess I'll see y'all 'round.