Mike Jiran's Assignments

Mike Jiran's Spectacularly Terrific Assignments
If you don't like my title, you can take your criticism and go home!
And if you're looking for Assignment 6, the Dreamweaver website project, you're way off. Try here.

If, for some irrational reason, you'd rather not accept my wearing of sunglasses indoors as evidence of just how cool I am, you can instead use the links below:

Assignment #3, due October 16, 2006. In this scintillating episode, I unleashed the awesome power of Adobe Photoshop CS (Yes, yes. I'm a version behind. Would you like to buy me an upgrade?) upon some unsuspecting pixels, with hilarious results!
Assignment #4, due November 6, 2006. Faced with the grim prospect of another uninspiring slate of presidential candidates on the horizon, this assignment saw me take action. Well, it saw me do the assignment by pretending I was ready to take action. Either way, there is no shortage of action, thanks to the animation ImageReady makes possible.
Assignment #5, due November 13, 2006. Ah yes, PowerPoint, the most despised of all the MS Office applications. How many naps have you enabled with your soothing glow in a darkened conference room? How many donuts, how many gallons of coffee, have met their end under your watchful eye? How many soporific, sophomoric, sycophantic schmucks have relied upon you instead of what little creativity they might have had, to get their points across to the boss (badly!)
PowerPoint be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and useful, for thou art not so.
With that bit of John Donne-ery out of my system, you can click the super-cool Assignment 5 banner below to download the Super Deluxe Bonus Director's Cut version of the presentation, which is chock-full of enough distracting eye candy, the kind Microsoft included in PowerPoint in case you ever have to address the ADD Sufferers Convention.
Assignment #7, Due December 12, 2006. Global warming isn't the only inconvenient truth in town, buddy. An even less convenient truth is that Microsoft Excel, while a handy way to sort data and such, can become quite testy with you if you ask it to do anything weird (like make a graph out of one section of your spreadsheet). To Excel (i.e. to use Excel), one must certainly persevere.

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