Sweet dreams are made of these...

What are these girls doing out so late,
like the witches in folklore?
If you were to witness so many falling stars,
What would you wish for?
-Poem by Jessica Robinson

Image found at:
Beautiful Night Sky. Digital image. Desktop Nexus. N.p., 4 Jan. 2012. Web. <http://www.desktopnexus.com/dl/inline/677557/1920x1080/foha68fcmnr11b1igi5car6nu75387e89c428e0>.

Original picture:

Artist's Concept of Exoplanet Orbiting Fomalhaut. Digital image. Hubblesite. ESA, NASA, and L. Calcada (ESO for STScI), 13 Nov. 2008. Web. <http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2008-39-d-small_web.jpg>.

I used Tuxpi Photo Editor to modify the above picture.  I first added text. What text to use? It came to me immediately.  Plus, I've been on a Cosmos kick... I then went to the color and contrast option.

I decided to play around with the brightness, saturation, contrast and hue.  The contrast I used first to accentuate the dark and light, as well as the brightness.  I messed with the saturation but ended up back where I started because I just didn't like the darkness that it pooled in.  I did however change the hue as well to bring back in some of the red undertones but keeping the brightness.

Presentations for teachers would benefit the students in my own community as many have access 

to the different interactive white boards that are available such as the Promethian Board.  

The web is at their fingertips.

Therefore enhancing a multitude of Webinars from PowerPoint presentations to Jeopardy

 games.  This skill could also be passed onto the students as part of presentations they make.  It is critical that our students are exposed to help better prepare them for the future. With jobs leaning more

 heavily on computer skills challenging students to incorporate 

digital graphics will give them the edge to achieve their dreams.

A single grain of salt...

This will be my first post of my first blog! I'm excited to venture into a new realm of learning and only ask for your patience as I become more e-literate... Oh dear, no pun intended. 

In regards to Presentation Zen, by Garr Reynolds, I was blown away by the first page.  He had me at, "Japanese beers."  Not only could I tell how much I would enjoy this author's voice but to add to it, my love of Eastern culture? Bonus! I found myself fully drawn in and was also retrospective in presentations I gave and how I fared.  Also, recalling presentations I had seen that fit the bill on the one he described was his inspiration for the book. 

It makes absolute sense, and anyone who has witnessed a PowerPoint presentation knows, that you simply can not read loads of bullet marks unless the speaker is reading verbatim.  In which case why are we reading this? Or why are you here and not a memo? I absolutely agree with this.  This is what is off-kilter with many presentations today causing all parties involved to suffer.

I hope to echo this concept of minimalism and naturalism.

" A single grain of rice can tip the scales.  One man can make the difference."- quoted from Mulan, a Chinese proverb