What I Did Today

Today I didn’t have much on the schedule besides the Canva presentation project. Of course, I spent about 15 minutes of typing practice when I started the afternoon.

Yesterday, I chose to do my Canva presentation on “How to Sell Ice Cream” and I did a little more research today into how franchise opportunities work to better inform the presentation. This was a fun activity, comparing the history of financials between Baskin Robbins, Coldstone, and Jeni’s Ice Cream.

The template came preloaded with images of delicious ice cream and consumers of ice cream, so it was a challenge to put together my fresh take. That’s mostly what I worked on today. The important part of the project was feeling more comfortable with the Canva application. Even though the end result is similar to Google Slides or Powerpoint, I learned how to use Canva to animate the slides, resize the text boxes, add pictures, and change layout with the practice I did today.

What Today Held

Today was smooth! I was able to record my portfolio presentation and I think I am happy with the results. I never usually hear myself talking very much so I will be interested to find out. I was doing my canva project on the history of books, stories and how words exist to all of us differently yet we have cultivated understandings between us in majorities. However, giving the description right now is too many words. I’ve switched my project to Sourdough starter and sourdough bread. Realistically, the way I am, the conversation and the point of the sourdough information will most likely run long (in the same way my speaking voice does).

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Today we started off with talking about our tech articles. Normally we would do this tomorrow, but because of mock interviews tomorrow we have to do it today. It went well. Lots of interesting topics like using LIDAR and AI to quickly get data on a massive flood affecting Indiana, using AI to analyze mammograms, mine on digital problems effecting libraries, and how Microsoft is having to do a lot more work to keep up with AI vibe hackers (even though Microsoft laid off a lot of people).

Then it was back to the grindstone with the Networking Lab. I’ve gotten pretty far though I did make a mistake where I put 19.168.0.1 for an IP address when I meant 192.168.0.1. Luckily it was an easy mistake to make and to fix so its all good. And it added a bit of levity to my ticket.

Making Videos

Using DaVinci Resolve, which is a free video editing program. The program has its perks for sure, but if you move a file or add a file in the folder, it can throw things off in the video. It relies heavily on where the files are located. So if you learn this program, make sure not to make changes to the files, or your video will be wonky. Just a learning curve that I wanted to pass on to the next person. DaVinci allows you to break apart movies and clips so you can use what you want. Just make sure that you are using copyrighted items, or you can not post and definitely cannot sell them. But the experience of making videos to promote CTP is satisfying and fun, after the huffs and puffs of the program difficulties.

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