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EVERNOTE
Today we learnt how to use Evernote. This was really interesting and I thought it would be a huge help for the presentation I will have from now on. It was fun to add our texts, highlights, drawings, etc to the note we clipped. I even wonder why I didn't even try to use it even though I've heard of it plenty of times. Evernote will allow us to easily access to the websites that we became interested in and to review on it quickly. Also we can obviously improve our presentations by using each of the tools Evernote has.

What is C.R.A.P?
C.R.A.P stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignments, Proximity. By focusing on these, we can make a better presentation.
Contrast: The way I made the sub titles for each topic in this blog entry is one of the way to make contrasts. It's a way to make difference in colours between the words and the background, size of the font so that there is much impact in the slides.
Repetition: I didn't really get this but I think it is about repeating the keywords and the pictures that relates to the words so that the listeners will know what we really want to tell.
Alignments: This is to organize the words and pictures to connect to each other. For example, if we are using the word forward, we should try to add it in the picture where people can feel "forward".
Proximity: This is the idea to organize the position of the words to make it easy to understand. If we just squash all the words above the sheet of the slide, the information will be a bit difficult to understand because there are no space and it is almost like notes rather than presentation.

Through listening to the explanation of these words, I thought that it is really important to consider the organization of each slide and make it simple but has enough of the basic informations we want the listeners to know.
I am now working on a presentation in other class and I am trying to make it simple but informative. However, I find it quite difficult to do so. I think I have to select more of my information I have collected.

My Final Project Theme
I am going to discuss about euthanasia in my essay and final project. I have started my research recently and i sometimes feel really devastated because it is such a serious and heavy topic. However, how we cannot easily decide whether it should be legal or not is really interesting. I hope I can complete my final project by convincing the listeners as much as possible. I also find it interesting how the general perspective toward euthanasia is different in each country.

I hope we can make the best presentation by using Evernote and C.R.A.P.