Photocollage

This is a picture of a tiger telling of his love for his new owl girlfriend!

Chris Nolan's Presentation

I found Chris Nolan's talk very informative and I learned a lot of new things. For one, I did not know that Google ranks the websites by how many times the word appears in the document or how often the cite is linked to other cites. Another thing I learned about was Google Scholar. I knew you could search for academic sources in the library, but I always thought that Google was for more popular or media based websites. But with Google Scholar you are able to look for academic articles. What surprised me was how little I actually knew about Google. The different search tools will help me on papers and projects from here on out.

Pictures That Lie

I choose the magazine picture of the seven Marines that had a story about soldiers going AWOL. I picked this picture because I thought it was relevant in today's world with the war going on. This photograph was found on a Harper's cover. The problem with the picture is that the soldiers that are in photograph are associated with the AWOL article when in fact none of them had suffered from this. Getty Images, who took the photograph, said that the cover was not a representation of the story that was supplied in the magazine. I believe this picture could be harmful to some soldiers because it puts a stereotype for soldiers to be mentally damaged after war.

CLT Visit

As a class, we visited the Center for Learning and Technology. I had never been to this part of the library so I was very interested to see what it was all about. Robert Chapman is who showed us around, he is one of the people in charge of CLT and also he runs TLearn. He showed us some of the different features that are available to the students. Some of the things I found interesting was how students have the ability to reserve a room so that they can work on group projects. These rooms are equipped with certain equipment for editing video, audio, and many other things. Students have the ability to use and rent digital cameras if they wish to do so. Also TriniTV is filmed and run through CLT. I can definitely see myself using CLT in the future for editing my video or audio projects. As for computer class, I can see how I would be able to use the software provided on the many computers in CLT to help me with some of the projects we will have to do in the future.

Jason Hardin's Talk

Jason Hardin's talk about copyright and plagiarism was very interesting to me. I have a general idea of what the two topics mean, but have never really understand the true meaning of the two words. My understanding was that they both had similar meanings, but I found out that copyright pertains to the law while plagiarism is more academic. One thing I found interesting was when copyright was actually started. I had no idea it was formed in 1790, when the Constitution was written.
The other topic I knew some about but not extensive amounts was the campus base file sharing. They send us e-mails about sharing music and things but I never knew how serious it could get. Some kids have been sued for having illegal files, and sometimes Trinity can't do anything to help them. I can see how some students may find that sharing music isn't a big deal, since a lot of people do it. You never think you will get caught. However there are alternatives to sharing music such as the higher opportunity act that obliges colleges to provide an "alternatives for illegal downloading". This is something new, but useful to students who are at universities. I believe that students should not share files, since it does not follow copyright laws and also since it could damage your computer by getting viruses from other people.


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My Trinity Network Diagram

So here is a picture of my network diagram. I really enjoyed the tour of the server room as I now have an idea of how our network works here at Trinity.

Top Tech Tip!

I enjoyed Joe Hatch speaking to us about computers and what we can do to protect them in regards to viruses. The one thing I am going to start doing for my computer is the CCleaner application. Sometimes my laptop starts to run slow and I never know how to get it to work faster. Now I can use the CCleaner to help with this problem and its free!