CST300: Module 7 (Week 7)

 Part One

Reflect on your team's Final Research Video Project Planning.  How did you collaborate?  What tools did you use to communicate and produce? Is the process smooth, what will you do differently next time in large collaborative projects?

My team and I continued to keep in constant contact on Discord. We had drafted an outline in a shared Google doc and each of us took ownership of a different part. We took the time limit for each presentation and divided by four to work out how much time we each had for our sections. We used a shared Google Slides presentation and and added our content to the slides that we owned.  We set up a Google Drive folder to host our voice recordings.  The process works however, the timeline made it difficult to coordinate.  Speaking for myself, I was VERY busy with work over the last two weeks, along with our essay being due last week.  I would have preferred to finish the presentation 3 days before the deadline and have the chance to polish the integrated work and make changes if we saw fit. There was unfortunately no time for that. That said, I am still very proud of our team and the work that we did.

Part Two

Please reflect on the Lecture readings in this section and what you have learned from this week's activities.

I think that the presentation tips from Toastmasters International was excellent. They're traps that I've seen presenters fall into.  At the end of the day, it comes down to preparing a presentation that is in a format that you feel comfortable delivering but maintaining focus on the reason why you're delivering it. To convey some idea.

I watched a Ted Talk from Dr. Peter Attia a surgeon turned health and longevity expert. I like his presentation in that it was engaging because he talked about a relatable topic, health.  I connected with it emotionally because he had some vulnerable moments. I like the delivery because he was clearly confident in the topic. He didn't rush and he spoke clearly.

The video and article from this week that stuck out for me was the deep fake video. There were a lot of deep fake videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere a couple of years ago and I think people are right to be asking questions about the ethical use of deep fakes. As with any new technology, bad actors will find negative uses for it but this case the potential violations are outsized. There are few things as valuable to a person as their identity, the potential to steal and exploit that understandably frightening.