For my Entrepreneurship class, we have to do a PowerPoint Presentation on an entrepreneur or inventor. Since I've already done a project on Mike Nesmith (inventor of MTV, and he also did a lot of other stuff which was of no importance whatsoever), I instead chose his mother, Bette Nesmith (inventor of Liquid Paper).
From my understanding, the teacher wants us to use all kinds of crazy fonts and effects and colours and stuff.
I apply a lot of my learning about website design to PowerPoint design. Websites without a consistent theme are so web 0.5 and are most probably on Tripod or Geocities or something like that. Other than that, there is NO EXCUSE to have a website without the same title, navigation, etc on EVERY PAGE!
So I like to keep my slides consistent. Same colour scheme, same font, and so on. Transitions are nice, but I mean, do professional business people actually use transitions? They're just so silly looking. But I've compromised in the past and used all kinds of wacky transitions.
However, I will not compromise on my other principles! Cooper Black in green throughout, and if I fail, so be it. I am not going to purposely sabotage my beautiful slide show just to prove I can put in animations and crazy shit.
One animation I did use though, that I made MYSELF, is the title which reads "Bette Naismith", followed by the "a" being "whited-out" and replaced with the proper "e". I was tempted to put "Nestor" or "Nishwash" or summat instead, but seeing as no one would get it, and it would take longer to white out, I stuck with the simple misspelling.
And another thing, this time pertaining to math class.
What kind of craaazy person would make us calculate numbers like (1,300,000-2,700,000)^2?!? THAT DOESN'T EVEN FIT INTO A CALCULATOR PROPERLY! And then, on top of that, add 30 of those huge numbers together? CRAZY!!!
Oh, and get this, then RECALCULATE it for the next question?!? ARRRGH.
Today in Individuals we learned about "Social Exchange Theory" and how things you do and relationships you have all have costs and rewards.
Well, I applied my learning in Individuals to my math class. The cost of doing this question (about an hour of my time) was greater than the reward (a few measly marks), so I didn't do it.
Thanks, school!
March 27, 2007 at 8:20 PM
You have teachers that require those silly thing as well? I thought I was the only one… My Grade 10 Business Tech teacher made us do a PowerPoint presentation once. Although starting become synonymously cliché with me, I did it on journalism. I remember nearly slapping the teacher when they asked me to provide (different!) music clips for each transition, it just made no sense. Sure it's great to show how PP-savy you can be but come on, make it relevant!
I hate it when teachers do that. It's YOUR project for a reason. As long as you give what's required, everything else should be up to your discretion.
I ended up compromising with the transition effects but still had a few tricks up my sleeve. The other students were easy to please, and please them I did. That way, come verbal marking time, the teacher wouldn't have to guts to mark me lowly. The class would have eaten her alive.