NIT2201 IT Profession and Ethics

Semester 4 7K 2024
NSBM, Sri Lanka

Guide to Presentation
READ THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND
ALL REQUIREMENTS BEFORE STARTING THIS ASSESSMENT

Value: 40% of final mark

Duration: 10 minutes maximum per student
Mode of work: Individual.

Guidance about presentation

Marks will be based on the oral presentation itself, including the delivery of the
presentation, the content covered in the presentation and the slides used by the
student. The slides developed by the student will be uploaded to a Presentation
Slides folder at the VU Collaborate site.
You will need to consider how well you deliver your presentation. What can you
do to provide high quality communication about your article and slide content?
Think about the content of your presentation. What will the content consist of
that you will be discussing in your presentation? What is relevant for you to
cover and discuss (whilst ignoring anything that is not relevant or important for
covering)?
Finally, what will the slides of your presentation look like? Consider slide issues
such as background and layout, and how the slide contents will appear. There
are a number of issues that you will need to address in setting up the appearance
of your slides.
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Instructions about your presentation

You are to give an oral presentation to the class. The presentation will be about your
investigation into an ethical article you have chosen from a list of articles provided to
you at VU Collaborate (in the Presentation Slides folder), and applying the following
Learning Outcomes of this unit to that article:

LO 1. Demonstrate an understanding of codes of ethics in Information and

Communication Technology;
LO 3. Critically discuss social, ethical and privacy issues in Information and
Communication Technology domains
LO 5. Communicate effectively on a range of social, ethical and privacy issues

You need to work out how 1. Relates to the article so that you are able to present about
the application of ACS and ACM codes of ethics (covered previously in the unit) to that
article. What principles or values of these codes connect to the article and can explain
ethical issues or problems in that particular article?

You need to work out how 3. Relates to the article so that you are able to present about
the social issues and/or ethical issues and/or privacy issues of that article. What are the
details about the particular social and/or ethical and/or privacy issues of that article?

Lastly, how do you as the presenter communicate in an appropriate, relevant and useful
way about the social and/or ethical and/or privacy issues of that article (i.e., how do you
fulfill 5.)? Since communication here is in the form of an oral presentation to an
audience, how will you use the medium of a presentation to communicate effectively
about the contents of your PowerPoint slides? You do not write anything in your slides
about this Learning Outcome: you simply fulfill it by presenting the best you can!

You are provided with a set of articles at the Presentation Slides folder at Dropbox.
A table contains the titles of the articles and the URLs where they are located. You use
the URLs to access and read those articles, and work out which one you would like to
study and present about. Ensure that the maximum limit of three students has not been
reached for that particular article, otherwise you will not be able to present about it and
will have to choose another article for which the maximum limit has not yet been
reached. The purpose is to have a good spread and coverage of the articles presented in
the last week of the block. You will present only one article.

When you have decided which particular article you want to present, return to the table
to verify that maximum limit of three students for that article has not been reached. If
the maximum limit has not been reached already, email the NSBM lecturer to inform
her that this is the article you wish to present. The lecturer will reply to state whether
you can proceed with the article (as the maximum limit has not been reached) or to find
another article. Please do not provide a set of articles in an order of preference, but only
one article that you truly are interested in presenting.

In your email, also state a period of time (with a start time and an end time) on Thursday,
25 July or Thursday, 1 August, when you prefer to present. Do not state a specific point
in time, for instance, 11am on 25 July. Instead, you could state that the period of time
you prefer to present is between 10:00am and 12:30pm on 25 July. The lecturer will do
her best to accommodate your preference and eventually allocate your presentation time
exactly somewhere within that period. The “Schedule of presentations” section below
states the dates and times when presentations will occur. If you do not state a period of
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time as your preference in that email, the lecturer will use her discretion to allocate a
time for you to present.
Therefore, the two points in your email to the NSBM lecturer are:
1. Article you have chosen
2. Preferred period of time to present

Content of presentation
You will write a set of slides using Microsoft PowerPoint to cover the three learning
outcomes. You will need to work out what you will write in your slides based on your
understanding of the article and the application of Learning Outcomes 1 and 3. You will
determine the exact set of bullet points you put in your slides. However, a structure for
the overall presentation is given below.
You will need to work out what your bullet points will be (if there are any sub-bullet
points), what headings you will use, what slide background/layout for the design of the
slides, etc.
Do not copy any text, images, etc. from the article to include in your slides. Your slide
content should be all written in your own words. If any copying of content from
resources were to occur, which it should not, this content will lead to deduction of marks
depending on how much has been copied. You should totally avoid insertion of logos
or other images of organisations in your slides, as well as images from articles and other
images not licensed to you, as clearly you do not have permission to use them (after all,
this is an ethics unit where such a practice goes against the point of this unit). Inclusion
of images will not increase marks so there is no need to insert images into slides.
Ensure that the last slide in your set of slides is a references slide. This references slide
shows all the references you used, even if it is only the article you used. To format
references for your slide, use any predefined, formal referencing system that you
wish: APA, Harvard, Oxford, IEEE, ACM, etc. Do not invent your own referencing
system, but apply such a recognised and accepted system.
You should therefore use the following structure for your set of slides:
1. Title slide. Show your name, student ID and a title for your presentation. You
should think of a title for your presentation that reflects the article. Titles should
not be those like “Presentation on article”, etc. as they do not reflect the case
you are covering. Do not use the title on the web resource(s) as your presentation
title.
2. Content slide. This will show what you are covering in the presentation. You
have seen content slides used in the classes of the unit – these can be an example
to you of what you could show in this slide. Ensure to expand verbally on the
points shown in this slide; this is your opportunity to interest us strongly in your
presentation.
3. Slides covering article and LO1. And LO3. You will write as many slides as you
need, whilst accounting for the time limit of 15 minutes for your entire
presentation. In other words, this number of slides is variable across students –
it depends on how many slides you think you need to explain the article and
associated matters.
4. Conclusion slide. This will provide a summary of what you have covered in the
presentation.
5. References slide. As above.
You may refer to the slides from Lecture 10 of ECB1151 Communication and
Information Management available at the Presentation Slides folder of the unit site.
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These slides provide some guidance in working on your presentation. Lecture 10 refers
to a resource used for the contents of its lecture slides: “Making Effective Oral
Presentations” by E. G. Wertheim. You might like to look at this resource also to help
you in working on the contents of your presentation.
In your presentation, do not spend time teaching us what are the codes of ethics. There
is no need to introduce us to the ACS code’s six values or the ACM code’s four sections
as we have already learnt about them. Going over what is in the codes only takes out
time from your presentation’s time limit. Instead, focus on how the codes are applied
and connected to the article. State the exact values, clauses or principles of the codes of
ethics clearly in your slides and explain how they relate to the article.
Duration of presentation: maximum of 15 minutes per student.

Submission
You must upload your slides to the Presentation Slides folder at Dropbox. If the slides
are not uploaded to this Presentation Slides folder by 5pm on Wednesday, 24 July,
marks will be deducted. The earlier they are submitted to that folder, the better. In fact,
there is no need to wait until the deadline to upload the slides; as soon as the slides are
completed, they should be uploaded immediately.

In uploading your submission at the Presentation Slides folder at Dropbox, you will
need to go to the page with the form, “Submit Files – Presentation Slides”. This form
contains the “terms and conditions” of the assessment such as declaring that you have
not plagiarised, have kept a copy of your work, etc. In uploading, you are agreeing to
these “terms and conditions”, which you are being bound by in submitting work for the
assessment and receiving a mark for it.

When uploading at VU Collaborate, note that the system:

• allows you at a couple of points during the submission process to verify what
you are about to submit (i.e., you can click on links to check the contents that
you are about to submit)
• automatically sends an email your account to confirm successful submission of
the slides.

To help yourself in ensuring that your submission is correct, download the file you
have just uploaded and submitted to somewhere to check what exactly you submitted.
Note that the time of submission at the VU Collaborate site, as recorded in the teaching
staff member’s area, will be used as the official time of submission.

Schedule of presentations
You will be allocated a presentation time in the schedule of presentations. Ensure you
have emailed your preference of the period when you would like to present. If you do
not email the NSBM lecturer about your preference, she will allocate you to a particular
time when you will present. A schedule of presentations will be provided on VU
Collaborate to show when you will give your presentation.
Presentations will take place during class hours on:
Thursday, 25 July (Week 11), and
Thursday, 1 August (Week 12)

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Marking Scheme

Criterion Marks
Delivery 10
Content of presentation 15
Slides 15

Deductions
Article/case is not one of those in list at Presentation Slides -20 marks

More than one article covered -10 marks

Sources of information from web not specified up to -2 marks

Presentation going over 15 minutes up to -10 marks

Inappropriate title for presentation up to -1 mark

Slide upload to Presentation Slides by 5pm of Wed, 24 July 5% per day late