The bottom line of this article is that you need to plan your multimedia presentations with your audience in mind, your tools, and function in mind. I liked the part about keeping your instructions in concise chunks. You can confuse something with too many works and when it is grouped with other concepts. A story board would be a good tool to these ends. Functionality is very important. I was thinking about this today. People hate what they don't understand. Most people who say they don't like an application don't feel comfortable with it. Part of this equation is giving your viewer a linear path that can be broken. Give people more control over what they view while retaining the integrity and purpose of the product. Keep it simple and keep it practical with loads of purpose.
The world of intellectual property is getting difficult to manage. The authors examples of other counties bold-faced-rip-offs is nothing new. I had a friend who while in Baharan purchased many pirated CDs for cents on the dollar. Digitized material and especially formats that make it easier to exchange, like MP3, have sped up the proliferation of pirated materials. The reality, I think, is that the first scenario given by the author will happen. Copyrights will go away. You just can't regulate digital files, as much as I wish you could. And why not? May be people would more freely create knowing there are no copyright issues, or may be they would give up and lose creativity. We need to encourage creativity however that would be encouraged with respect to intellectual property.
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When it comes to creating presentations, developing a storyboard first is very helpful. A lot of adults don't like to take the time and "plan" what the final product would look like, but without a "plan" it makes it even more difficult.
As far as copyright laws, when in doubt, get permission. I agree that we need to show our creative side, but we need to make sure we give the proper credit to who originally created the product.
Today I experienced first hand what a well documented plan / story board can do for your presentations! I was developing my photoshop presentation and had somehow mislabeled a few HTML files. It was because of a great plan (written out) courtesy of Dr. Christie and some well-heeded advice from Jon M. that I managed to fix my error quite painlessly and move on.
I agree that Storyboards can certainly make life easier and, if you ARE unfamiliar with a program that you are working with, keeping a storyboard by your side is a great way to check off steps or chart your progress. It never hurts to be TOO organized!
Intellectual property, hmmmm. I think of that has your thoughts. We give our thoughts away everyday, in person and online. I don't think that refers to art, paintings and sculptures, music, songs and CDs etc. I think it refers to our thoughts that we put out in the public domain everyday. Am I upset if someone copies this post and puts it as their own? Yes, but I don't see that I can/should do anything about it. Am I disturbed by the rip-offs of purses, CDs, DVDs yes! Ther will be a tie when there will be coding so that those thinkgs can not be pirated. that technology has not been perfected yet. However, look at software packages and the means that are available to maintain their integrity. It is coming...YOU could develop it?
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