Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. This protest against Budget 2014 involved a lot of community and voluntary sector groups as well as groups organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Interviews included in this video are with Bluebell Community Angling group who work with the elderly, SIPTU, Wicklow Against Home, Water & Septic Tank Taxes. The ASTI who are fightinhg against education cuts, Seamus MacDonagh of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions, Paddy Connolly of Inclusion Ireland who are part of the National Disability Association , Down Syndrome Ireland and Ireland Autism Action, Alan Lawes, Ken Purcell and others from SIPTU Grassroots, Claiming Our Future, Joe Higgins of The Socialist Party, Joan Collins of the United Left, Memet Uludag of the Socialist Workers Party, David Gibney of Mandate Trade Union, Paul Murphy Socialist Party and MEP, Derek Byrne of Dublin Says No and Rita Fagan. Numerous other groups were also in attendance which you can see in another video on this Youtube channel.This video then highlights some of the more negative aspects of Budget 2014 which are targeting the young, the sick and the elderly.
Here is a new video I made about a new initiative called thepeopleofeire.com
The video looks at some interesting statistics and facts from the banking crisis. The video will play on laptops but not on mobiles.
The People of Éire - Time for Truth
Directed and edited by Marcus Howard
Here is another video about them made by Stephen Kerr of Reality Ireland if you click the link below.
Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. Documentary about the Seanad, it's history and featuring Michael Collins, JFK, Mary Robinson, David Norris and WB Yeats. Please watch this to the end as something really amazing happens to Dublin Says No and Dundalk Says NO on O'Connell Street. Please share if you think anyone is unsure of what way to vote on the Seanad this Friday. Whatever you decide, the worst thing you can do is not to vote at all.
Your CV is what sells you. In 2013 in Ireland it is an employers market. You are now in a more competitive market for jobs than in 2006. As a result, you may be competing for a job against someone with 10 years experience. Your potential employer hasn't met you yet and you are one of a bundle of CV's. At this stage your CV and cover letter is the only piece of information they have about you. How are you going to promote yourself? How are you with your CV, going to make the difference between getting an interview or not? Is there spelling mistakes? Over 80% of CV's have spelling mistakes in them. What signal are you sending out to your employer about you if there are a lot of spelling mistakes?
Youtube Video
Jobs Club 2: CV Preparation - TV3's Ireland AM with Brightwater
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Most of the tutorials on this blog will be in Powerpoint 2010 for the moment as it is one of the more widely used versions of presentation software in the workplace in Ireland as well as being the version that is installed in colleges and schools. Here is the icon for it if you are unsure what it looks like.
The first slide in a presentation is usually a title slide, and is used to introduce your presentation.
Exercise: What kind of music do you like? As the 1st presentation you are going to be doing involves doing on "Myself", the type of music or sport you are interested in would be a suitable mini exercise to try out your ideas (as well as saving some of the work needed for your assignment).
Type in the “Click to add title” slide the name of your favourite style of music. E.g. Rock, rap, trance, funky industrial free-style acid-jazz or R&B.
Type in the space labelled “Click to add subtitle” your name. Press [Enter] and then type the name of your class. E.g. “Year 1 7ITA”.
Save the file as “Myself Music I like Presentation 1” in your H drive or on your USB stick in a powerpoint folder which you have already created (if you have not done so yet, do so now). If you save it as 97-2003 version when you click Save As, it will be compatible with older versions of Powerpoint you may have at home.
Creating A New Slide Click the New Slide button. Notice that if you select the top part of the New Slide icon, Powerpoint will automatically select a new Title and Content slide layout. However, if you select the bottom part of the icon, a drop-down list will appear and you can select whatever type of slide layout you wish.
A new slide will appear and a second slide thumbnail will appear on the left of the screen.
Creating Bulleted Lists
Key points in a presentation often use bulleted lists. Bullets can be anything from standard points like • to fancier symbols like ☺.
Click in the area labelled “Click to add title”. Type “Reasons why I like ” and then type the name of your favourite style of music.
Click in the area labelled “Click to add text”. Type a reason why you like the chosen style of music. Press Enter to begin a new line and type another. Enter between 3 and 5 reasons for liking that type of music.Keep them short, remember they are bulletpoints.
Adding a ClipArt Slide
“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Pictures not only add visual interest but also assist in getting your message across. Clipart is used to add pictures to your presentations. With PowerPoint you have a choice of several layouts that include clipart.
Create a new slide
. In the New Slide Layout task pane, scroll down until you see “Two Content" and select it
Click in the title and type “Popular [whatever music style you picked] Artists”
Select Insert and SmartArt in order to group your favourite music artist’s in a more attractive way. The SmartArt Graphic box will appear. The list on the left opens up a series of methods of presenting your text. Certain methods are more relevant than others depending on the presentation. Choose from the list on the left Cycle and choose Basic Cycle for this exercise and click OK.
Enter 3 to 6 well known artists for the style of the presentation in the text boxes you see.
4.In the content area on the right, click the clipart icon and a clipart browser window will appear.The same process is incolved for pictures, movies and charts with the different icons below
Choose one of the pictures shown or use the box at the top to search for certain types of pictures with keywords (E.g. “Dancing” or "guitar"). If you would rather use a picture you have saved then click the Import button to browse for the file. Once you have selected an appropriate picture, click the OK button and the chosen picture will be inserted.
Now lets say you are looking at your SmartArt text on the left and you would like to make things a little flashier. Right-click on one of the textboxes and scroll down to change shape.
Under Stars and Banners select the 5 point Star. You will notice that the SmartArt textbox has changed. You be the judhe of the text is too small or not. You an always hit the Undo button.
Adding a WordArt Slide
Word art is used to create special effects with text that you cannot select by formatting the font. You can create curves, angles, waves, 3-D effects and many more.
Create a new slide.
2.Change the slide layout once again, this time choosing the “Blank” layout (Right-click on the 4rth slide in the slide pane on the left, scroll down to layout, and select Blank). You should now have a slide that is completely blank
2.From the Insert ribbon at the top of the screen, click the WordArt icon.
Choose a text layout and then click OK.
You can choose formatting options and type your text. Type a slogan that describes your chosen music style and click OK. The WordArt will appear in the centre of your slide.
6.You may notice a small green dot that you can drag to rotate the text.
Change the Shape Fill colour and experiment with the Shape Outline and Shape Effects. You can also Edit Shape or decide you want to change the Text Fill or Text Outline. Any action you are unhappy with can always be cancelled by the magic Undo button.
This video shows you how to create a presentation using Powerpoint 2007.The clip shows
how to create your own slides and add headings, bulleted lists, and pictures. It is similar to the 2010 version. Built-in layouts are also shown to organize your slide content. You can also see how the Preview feature helps you choose theme colors and background design. Pause and go over the video as many times as you wish as there is a lot covered.
Youtube Video
PowerPoint 2007 Demo: Create a basic presentation quickly
