Weekly Reflection 10

Hello everyone, 

This week I was exploring my feedly page and came across a rather interesting article titled "Obama Arrives in Cuba, Heralding New Era After Decades of Hostility. The article states that Obama is the first American Leader to have touched down in Cuba in over 9 decades!! His trip is the result of a stunning policy reversal 15 months ago, holds the potential to forge closer ties between longtime adversaries and exorcise one of the last ghosts of the Cold War. I found this article to be very interesting because with all the drama happening in American politics right now with Donald Trump, I feel as though the country is forgetting about some of the great things their current leader is doing. I hope that the United States can develop a stronger relation with Cuba to help increase their trade. Another big reason that I personally like this developing relation is that Cuba will be able to import better food to their resorts. 

(Macintosh, 2015)

As stated in my last post, we had the chance to explore three presentation tools this week; 2 of which were completely new to me. I had previous experience with using prezi, however I had never experienced Animoto or Fotobabble. Prezi is a great way to make a presentation because it allows your content to almost tell a story. The images can be zoomed into, spun around, or even slid across the page. In the past, I have been a Microsoft Powerpoint type of person, mainly because that is what I grew up using. However I am happy that this course has opened me up to new digital tools that can help me with future presentations. 

The second tool was Fotobabble, which allows you to incorporate, babble. In Tyra's Blog, she states that the big difference with this tool is the ability to incorporate voice, which relates back to week 9. I feel that this is an important tool because some people learn better from hearing someones voice rather than reading.  However, like Tyra said not everyone is comfortable with using their voice in the digital world. Tyra agree that using her voice is not my favourite because she feel that she sound like a little girl, however she is still willing to give this tool a try. Very courages Tyra! The final presentation tool explored was Animoto. Animoto allows you to import pictures of your choice, and then choose a template to put them in. Once this is complete, the photos will automatically be made into a video slideshow with music. The downfall I found with Animoto was the very limited amount of text that is allowed under each photo. That being said, here is a slideshow I've created displaying some of my work from my company Andy's Home & Lawn Service: