China's Electronic Waste Village

I choose to describe this slideshow as it relates to a topic that I did a research paper on for Current Environmental Issues. I dont' feel that e-waste is an issue that one can fully understand with out the visual images provided in this slideshow what those in developing countries are enduring and risking by taking e-waste form developing countries. The toxicity of e-waste is extremely hazardous as there are 38 toxic chemicals involved in each piece of electronics. E-waste is sent to develooping countries not because they are better equipped to take care of the waste but because the environmental and health laws are so lax. The green name of "recycling" implies that e-waste is being handled in a proper manner but contrary to this belief workers are handling e-waste without the proper protection, using acid baths, open burning, and such primitive methods to extract the toxic materials then discarding the rest. The air, land, and water are severely contaminated.
The pictures chosen to create this slideshow depict the environment of e-waste "recycling"; emphasis, artistic unity, and genuineness in media are all principles of design that are used. I think that the overall presentation is effective and that the only improvement would be a better picture resolution.

China's Electronic Waste Village

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Composition 101

Now I am not sure that I have completely gotten the right composition to each photo.

Converging composition (bamboo draws eyes upward)

Shoot angles

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Rule of 3rds

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Rule of thirds

Leading eye (ram's horn)

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Before & After

I used the picnik program to alter my pictures.

For the deer picture I did some cropping first and then under the create tab I went to effects and vignette. This feature I may use again. I also went into the stickers and chose the iconian and pheasant. I am not sure that I would ever really use the sticker feature but for the sake of trying something new I gave it a shot.

For the flower picture I went into the create tab and sandbox, from here I chose hypnotic advanced mode overlay, fade 11.

For the crow picture I had to crop it first then went into create, effects, matte, then edit, colors and adjusted the saturation to 4 and the temperature to -8.

Prior to this assignment I have used picnik to crop photos but never explored the other options. Because I was a tiny bit familiar with the picnik program I had tried GIMP but found that I was getting no where fast and wanted to accomplish this assignment in a timely manner. Still lacking a bit there.

OpenOffice Demo

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Greenshot overkill

I was having some technical difficulties with downloading Greenshot, there is a 50/50 chance it was user error or my laptop being on the fritz. Anyhow, I got it figured out so I did screen shots of the various stages of using SlideShare. I have to say that I found SlideShare easy to use and feel that it will be a useful tool to have in my bag of tricks. I don't know that I would use Greenshot often but can at least say that I know how to use a screen capture tool and add it to a blog, website.

Let's Go On A Bear Hunt presentation upload

Lets Go On A Bear Hunt

This is the presentation that I uploaded to SlideShare. I created this in a Technology in the Classroom that I took a few semesters back.

Slideshare webware review

SlideShare Quick Tour - Summary of features & capabilities

SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations with individuals or the world. Businesses upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their business. Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them then tag them, download them, or embed them into their presentations, blogs, & websites.

SlideShare is a great way to get your slides on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. SlideShare is the way to get the word out about your product or service, reach people who could not make it to your talk, or share lesson plans with other teachers.

Here are some of the things you can do on SlideShare

• Embed slideshows into your own blog or website
• Share slideshows publicly or privately
• Synch audio to your slides
• Market your own event on SlideShare
• Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interest
• Download the original file

SlideShare is free to join and easy to get started at www.slideshare.net

I liked SlideShare’s user friendliness for uploading my own documents and the convenience of searching thousands of presentations by topics of interest to you.

Here are the screen captures that show the process of using SlideShare