Effective Presentations

1. Effective Presentations Mika LaVaque-Manty March 23

2. Effective Presentations Overview • Introduction • Basic Principles • Technical • Pedagogical • Examples • Questions

3. Basic Principles Technical • Inviolable: 18-Point Rule. • This is in 16-point Helvetica. • “Animate” text. • Avoid the bottom of the screen.

4. Basic Principles Pedagogical •  & “Form follows function.” • Blackboard Principle:

5. Basic Principles Pedagogical •  & “Form follows function.” • Blackboard Principle: • Use long sentences and read them aloud only when you would have done that with a blackboard or text passage. • Otherwise, use keywords.

6. Basic Principles Pedagogical • Timing and pacing: • Time complete presentation. • Don’t rush or skip slides. • Handouts/outlines

7. Basic Principles Constraints • Technical • Resolution • Orientation • Microsoft defaults • Pedagogical • Cognitive style  Best for scripted presentations

8. Effective Presentations Overview • Introduction • Basic Principles • Technical • Pedagogical • Examples • Questions

9. Franz Fanon 1925-1961 Martinique

10. A divided country…

11. …or a stupid electoral system?

12. Habermas’s Theses • “Technocratic consciousness reflects not the sundering of an ethical situation but the repression of ‘ethics’ as such as a category of life” (112). • “…[M]aintenance of intersubjectivity of mutual understanding as well as … creation of communication without domination” (113).

13. The Damiens case

14. S n e a k y S l e e p o v e r Or, The Glencoe Massacre of 1692

16. Two principles of justice • Each person has the same indefeasible claim to a fully adequate scheme of equal basic liberties, which scheme is compatible with the scheme of liberties for all; and • Social & economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: • they are to be attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; • they are to the greatest benefit of the least-advantaged members of society. Liberty principle Constitutional essentials “Lexical priority” Distributive institutions Difference principle

17. Escaping the state of nature Rationality of the contract B A

18. Keep quiet .5  20 = 10.5 .5  3 + Escaping the state of nature Rationality of the contract B A Confess 1 10 = 5.5 .5  .5  10 +

19. Escaping the state of nature Rationality of the contract B A

20. The Eichmann dilemma Eichmann is simply guilty on a mens rea model. The Nazi regime represents a new systemic evil.

21. The Eichmann dilemma Eichmann is simply guilty on a mens rea model. The Nazi regime represents a new systemic evil. • Evidence problem • No major anti-Semitism • Obedience • Regress problem • What about other individuals? • Systemic problem • Nazis are just a gang of successful criminals

22. The Eichmann dilemma Impossibility of justice? Eichmann is simply guilty on a mens rea model. The Nazi regime represents a new systemic evil. Displacement of agency Eichmann is not evil?

23. Theoretical context Filmer Hobbes Locke

24. absolutism religion contract Theoretical context Filmer Hobbes Locke

25. No Can we exercise them? No Yes Is it effective? Yes Malcolm X & Locke Bullet We have democratic rights Ballot Effectiveness= maintenance of rights

26. Morality as a heuristic But it feels wrong… Torture the prisoner to prevent killing of innocents.

27. Morality as a heuristic But it feels wrong… The feeling reflects “summaries of previous calculations,” but is meaningless now. Suppress Good consequences Torture the prisoner to prevent killing of innocents.

28. Bhaskara (b. 1114 CE): BEHOLD!

29. Bhaskara (b. 1114 CE): BEHOLD! a b a b c

30. Standard deviation Mean (average)

32. Faculty Grad students Undergraduates

33. Effective Presentations Overview • Introduction • Basic Principles • Technical • Pedagogical • Examples • Questions

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36. University ISP WiFi Storage Instructional tools Tech support Discounted soft- and hardware Department Computer lab Support for grad students

37. University ISP WiFi Storage Tech support Discounted soft- and hardware Support for undergrads

38. Fair equality of opportunity • “Offices and positions” • Fair vs. nominal opportunity “Careers open to talents.” Create institutions that help people realize their native talents & inclinations.

39. The Difference Principle LAG D J J   N  B F  45 P O MAG ULAGUMAG: N > B > D U: B > N > D