Since most of you are finished your presentations we'll take today's period to gently critique your work - this is an opportunity for the class to "peer edit" your presentations. The purpose of doing this is so that you can have some group feedback to use in tweaking / improving / correcting / increasing the effectiveness of your presentations. As discussed, fancy transitions and other features that are easy to create are generally annoying - they almost always detract from the presentation and make it less professional.
Review of effective presentations.
1. Rule of 6 - no slide should have more than six lines of text, each line having no more than 6 words.
2. Graphics - each slide should have a graphic which enhances audience understanding of the point that you are trying to make with that slide.
3. Transitions - the simpler the better.
4. Headings - each slide should have a short but effective heading or sub-heading.
5. Theme - by this I mean colour scheme. It should be the same for the entire presentation including the same font, background colour, font colour, same sizes for headings and each level in a list.
Afterward we'll start looking at your papers if possible. Remember, because you have already done the presentation you already have the information that you will need to complete your paper, including at least four examples of laws from your time period and the corresponding laws in effect in Canada today.
For the paper I'm asking you to do footnoting. The Google Docs conversion of this hasn't worked perfectly so I'm also distributing the correct version (Google Docs puts the footnotes off to the left hand margin and doesn't insert correct numbers for footnotes, it puts in a number sign (#) instead.
We did all of the above and we were pleased to see many already effective presentations!
The following is an account of our discussion on writing a supported opinion paper like the one you need to do for this project, "History of Law."
Introduction:
Opening Statement - introduces the main topic, in this case your historical time period and the context of the newly written law, e.g. ...
"Ancient Babylon was a culture with highly developed Mathematics, architecture and other technologies. In order to keep the society and its economy thriving the leaders needed to create laws for everyone to follow to ensure that the society continued to develop. The longest lasting legacy of the need to maintain order in Babylonian society is the Code of Hammurabi, the oldest surviving complete set of written laws of which we know. Many of the legal ideas from 3,700 years ago continue to influence our laws in Canada today. This paper will explain the connection between the Code of Hammurabi and Canadian law and it will show that those ancient legal ideas are influential in Canada's legal system.
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