Copyrighting and Presentations

It is very important that teachers model appropriate citations and  make sure to get permission to use copyrighted work because they are setting an example for their students. If students see that teachers don’t cite their sources or ask permission to use material then they aren’t going to think it’s important. If students see teachers taking things off the internet without giving someone credit for that work, then students aren’t going to cite their sources either.  Teachers can’t expect their students to do appropriate citations if they aren’t themselves.

Before reading Presentation Design:  Principles and Techniques, I was not familiar with SNR, the signal versus noise ratio. This chapter also mentioned a lot of techniques that many of the PowerPoint presentations that I have seen in the past do not follow. For example, the section called “A Word About Bullet Points.” Where you don’t use more than seven lines per slide, no more than seven words per line, and only one main point per slide. I thought this was a good idea and more presentations should follow it because it limits how many words you can have on your slide, keeping in short and brief. A lot of presentations I have seen just write whole paragraphs on their slides, making it boring for the audience because it usually causes the speaker to stand up there and read it, rather than just have a few ideas for people to see and the speaker elaborate each bullet point to the audience, making it more bearable for the audience to sit through. This chapter also showed the difference between a good slide and a bad slide on the same topic. In the section “Going Visual,” it mentions how images are a natural way for humans to communicate. This was a good section because I think a lot of people think they have to have text on every slide of their presentation, but sometimes just having images will work just as well, if not better. I think presentations should focus on images as well, and not just text. These topics are very important when you’re making a presentation and I think they should be used by teachers when they are lecturing their students, and should be taught to students so they can use these techniques when they make their own presentations.

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