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 * April 30, 2012**

Elizabeth Stone: The idea was very informative and I really enjoyed how the images were able to shock me. In the beginning you were very good at balancing out images with text, letting the images do the talking. However, as you got past the last few images things got way too texty. While I can appreciate the information, it almost defeats the purpose of a visual story.

Lorin Weaver: This prezi was nicely put together and the images of your son were absolutely adorable. The message was stated very clearly through the images and I loved how you connected this message to the stuff we have been learning in class. There were a few bits where the Prezi zooms in on the text a little too quickly. Have the text closer to the images to fix that.

Benjamin Miller: I was really impressed by your use of dual images to emphasis the power of choices. Even better to use images of yourself to tell a neat little story. While the background was kinda bland, it does remind me of a paved path or road, which would be great symbolism to your message. Some of the images are a bit too small to really see so maybe you can make them bigger?

Brandon Lalli: I loved the way you were able to form all the images into a V shape. I love that movie and I loved that you made that comparison in your topic. The images got a little repetative but you used them effectively to get your point across. Not entirely sure how you related this to the topics discussed in class but I am certainly better informed about internet censorship.

Chandler Wilson: This was a beautiful story, though a bit text heavy at times. The way you used the ideas presented by Ramage and the other class texts was handled very nicely. Some of the pictures were a bit hard to see, at least in the later portion of the presentation. Other than that, you did a great job telling this very personal story of family and identity.

Danica Cantrell: I was very impressed on how hard you worked on this because it clearly shows. You did an amazing job by defamiliarizing yourself with the images though it was also neat how the Disney images were used because people would recognize them. You also made a clear effort to use as many class texts as possible in your presentation an it made a huge difference on your overall message.

Seth Eckman: This presentation was a bit disorienting, though it seems that was the point all along. Good job in succeeding but I think you might have made certain images a little too blurry. It was a neat idea to make the images black and white though. It really helped give the presentation a lot of atmosphere without saying anything. You also tended to use a lot of text and I got a lot more of the story from that rather than the images. You may want to work on that.


 * May 2, 2012**

Amber Howe: What is true love? Very good presentation using Ramage's readymades and perception of identity. What I liked most about the presentation overall is the idea that the message is presented through the eyes of a child/teenager. I personally really appreciate this since I really think that we underestimate how much children can understand adult topics such as love. It also made the story more effective due to the fact that we all remember those moments of our childhood when we love something. What could be improved on is maybe using less questions for text but I really enjoy it how it is. Maybe put the images in a way that make a certain shape, a heart for example.

Deanna Brown First off, the baby images were absolutely adorable, and your message was very important. It really seem that parents are depending more on books than their own instincts. What I like the most would certainly be the overall message and how you represented how people can have different opinions on parenting. What could be improved upon is that you need to have a more clear connection to the readings, cause I'm not sure where that comes in here.

Kelsey Shapiro The look of your Prezi was very creative and really popped out to me. You really used all the tools available to you in an effective way that helped to symbolize your topic. I was also very fond of your choice of topic and how music reflects us and vice versa. You also made an interesting connection with your images to your audience. Creating context without using any text at all. The terms used such as Denotatives and Conotatives are used properly and I enjoyed seeing how you used it with your images. What could be improved is elaborating a bit more on your end point since it really left me confused.

Jenny Mascaro What I really liked about your presentation was its use of these historical photographs of the titanic and the people on it. While the story has been done before, I really enjoyed the way you presented it on Prezi and gave it in a context that the audience understood. What could be improved upon is the text. I could barely read the text as you went through the different images which took a lot out of it. That and I don't think you really added that much class text/ideas in your project.

Estelle Reidler I loved how surreal this project was. Especially the effects used on all the images you took yourself. It really helped with the idea of a dream world then thrusting the audience back into the cold reality. The comparisons between our class texts and the poem you chose was a very neat idea and it was good that you drew on outside sources such as Freud. What could be improved on is that the text should probably be cut down. With the quotes I understand but the images need to describe the lines of the poem instead of the other way around.

Charlotte Moyer I related to this presentation a lot since I go through this process all the time as a writer. The Symbolism between your text and imagery was absolutely perfect in more ways than one. You did a great job of defamiliarizing yourself with the images you took cause they were kept in the context of the story. What could be improved on, the framing of the pictures seemed a bit off at times but that is to be expected with the circle frames, best to keep them so the cycle symbolism still fits.