An important skill to have in today's technology driven world is compiling and creating a presentation on the computer. Microsoft PowerPoint allows us to do this, and this week we have been focusing on things to avoid when making a PowerPoint presentation. My top three class presentations were Kealey's, Katie's and Mary-Alice's. I liked that Kealey's was very structured, which made following along easy, and I liked that she made it interesting by adding a little humor. Katie's was good because she addressed three key features in PowerPoint presentations, and how it looks when you do them wrong: font, format, and animation. Finally, Mary-Alice's was well organized, and I enjoyed that she included examples of her points underneath them a a visual reference. There are several features that are good, and several that are bad, when making a PowerPoint.
Things to do:
1) Keep the presentation focused. It should consistently enhance or reflect the main point of your presentation.
2) Slides should be clear and easy to follow. The listener/viewer should be able to understand their purpose with ease, instead of struggling to figure the slide out (because then, they're not listening to you).
3) Format all the slides in a similar fashion. This will give the presentation flow.
4) Be consistent throughout the presentation.
Things to avoid:
1) Anything with excess is not a good thing: excess colors, font styles, animation, graphics. Keep it simple, but interesting.
2) Don't include information or graphics that isn't needed. Everything on the slide should be supporting your point.
3) Avoid distracting and disorganized formatting. One loud color is good, but five are not.
4) Don't create your slides so they are relied on for the presentation. They're there to support it, not to be the presentation.
Whitney Stanat
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~wstanat/bad/Examples%20of%20Bad%20Features%20in%20Powerpoint_files/frame.htm
Above is a link to my Bad PowerPoint Presentation discussing what not to do when formatting your own PowerPoint.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Still Image Copyright Protection
Due to the increasing integration of information with today's modern technology, issues of copyright have become more complicated. People have an easier time accessing a huge body of information, and there are questions when they can or cannot use the information in their own works. Looking specifically at images from the web, these are some parameters to use of the image and whether the original source must be acknowledged.
An image becomes copyrighted the moment it is produced in a concrete medium of display. If the image was created after Jan 1, 1978, the copyright laws on the image last for the entire lifespan of the original author, and an additional seventy years after their death.
Under a policy known as "fair use", an author may use an image from another source without asking permission for the following purposes: scholarly work (example: students, professors, administration, nonprofit educational use), news reporting, parody, or criticism or comment. The author must cite the location they found the image, but still don't need permission to use it in their own works. Outside these context, the author does not fall under the fair use policy. For example, if a college student downloads copyrighted music, this is illegal because the download isn't functioning for scholarly use. Here, the student is just a person, not a "student".
The author cannot use the image as an example of their original work; this is plagiarism. By not citing where the image came from, it tells the reader that the image is an original work of that page. Taking credit for someone else's work, whether it's a portion, a paraphrase or all of it, is considered plagiarism.
If the use of the image does not apply within the parameters of fair use, the author must request permission from the original source for use of the image in their works. After permission is granted, they also need to cite where the image originally came from.
Sources
1)FACE: Friends of Active Copyright Education. Still Images Copyright Basics. 1 Oct 2007 http://www.csusa.org/face/stilim/index.htm.
2)"When Copying is Okay: The "Fair Use" Rule." Nolo: Your Legal Companion since 1971. Nolo Legal Companion. 1 Oct 2007..
An image becomes copyrighted the moment it is produced in a concrete medium of display. If the image was created after Jan 1, 1978, the copyright laws on the image last for the entire lifespan of the original author, and an additional seventy years after their death.
Under a policy known as "fair use", an author may use an image from another source without asking permission for the following purposes: scholarly work (example: students, professors, administration, nonprofit educational use), news reporting, parody, or criticism or comment. The author must cite the location they found the image, but still don't need permission to use it in their own works. Outside these context, the author does not fall under the fair use policy. For example, if a college student downloads copyrighted music, this is illegal because the download isn't functioning for scholarly use. Here, the student is just a person, not a "student".
The author cannot use the image as an example of their original work; this is plagiarism. By not citing where the image came from, it tells the reader that the image is an original work of that page. Taking credit for someone else's work, whether it's a portion, a paraphrase or all of it, is considered plagiarism.
If the use of the image does not apply within the parameters of fair use, the author must request permission from the original source for use of the image in their works. After permission is granted, they also need to cite where the image originally came from.
Sources
1)FACE: Friends of Active Copyright Education. Still Images Copyright Basics. 1 Oct 2007 http://www.csusa.org/face/stilim/index.htm.
2)"When Copying is Okay: The "Fair Use" Rule." Nolo: Your Legal Companion since 1971. Nolo Legal Companion. 1 Oct 2007
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