Presentation and Ethics Flashcards
What makes PowerPoint an expensive program to use?
You have to purchase projection along with Microsoft Office and a computer.
What is a common pitfall of beginner presentations.
They make their presentations glitzy and distracting rather than refining what they really want to communicate.
What is it so important to know exactly how you should start and how you should end a presentation?
Because the start is your change to capture their attention and the ending is what typically people remember.
What is the set of commands at the top of a PowerPoint called?
The ribbon, just like in Word and Excel.
What is CONFU?
The Conference of Fair Use (A partially successful attempt at defining fair use).
What is fair use?
The legal right for certain groups of people to use a limited portion of copy-written material without obtaining permission from the artist.
Why is fair use for pictures difficult to define?
Because most other media types allow you to use 10% of a work, song, or video, but it’s hard to use only part of a picture effectively.
Who can use the fair use doctrine?
Teachers, Students, News Agencies, and Non-profit organizations.
What is the Robin Hood argument for piracy?
The media companies are so wealthy and greedy that pirating music or movies is basically taking from the rich and sharing with the poor. They are so wealthy that it doesn’t hurt anyone.
What is the moral argument against piracy?
God says in his law that stealing is wrong and when you make a copy of something that you don’t have the legal rights to make, you are stealing.
What is the legal argument against piracy?
Pirating is illegal and punishable under United States law. You can go to jail or be fined thousands of dollars if you break these laws that protect the creative property of artists.
What is a technological argument for piracy?
Computers and software have made it so easy to copy or download copy-written material that it must not be wrong.
What is the problem with images that are photoshopped?
Girls especially come under massive social pressure to look more beautiful than is possible. An impossible ideal is held before them and subconsciously they can feel like they will never measure up.
What does KISS mean in relation to presentations?
Keep It Simple Stupid!
Why should you usually avoid reading slides when you give a presentation.
Because that is using the slides as a crutch because you don’t really have anything more to say. (It also indicates you have to many words on the screen). Don’t do that! KISS. Also it’s insulting to the audience.
