Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Jason's Presentation

At the end of Jason’s presentation, he talked about copying and using Google images in PowerPoints or as images in word documents. He said that in most cases, no harm is done. But legally, the picture needs to be cited. I don’t agree with this law. I think that anyone should be able to access a picture online and use in for an educational production or intellectual article. As long as the author does not claim the picture as their own when he or she turns in the piece, I do not believe that any credit needs to be given. People should not be offended if others want to use their work, and as long as the person using it does not pretend that the image is originally theirs, I do not see a problem with it.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

"Survival Skills"

A useful tool that I learned from Joe's presentation is the defragmentation program. I actually tried this on my laptop and it worked really well. Getting rid of the random filing of my computer made my Internet faster. I highly recommend using this program regularly.