Kirsten,
I received similar comments from some students when I first began using
PowerPoint (at MSU-Mankato incidentally). I have found that the key is to
have the slides be very brief. This allows students to write down the
information quickly and then listen to what you have to say. They
Hi All,
I use a class internet list, and posted the "outline" version of my
PowerPoint lectures to the list after each lecture. This saved paper, and
seemed to be appreciated by the students who used them.
Joe Hatcher
Ripon College
Ripon, WI 54971
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From: Kirsten
No, I found that my students wanted all of the information. I find that
it is something akin to students wanting to write down every word from
a lecture, verbatim, as if that will be essential to good knowledge.
annette
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Kirsten Rewey wrote:
Rick, Miguel and Interested
When I first started using PowerPoint, I put way too much on the slides. Now
I use it as a brief outline with some graphics, etc. It is especially useful
in my stats class. I post the PowerPoint lectures on my webpage, using three
slides to a page. This gives students room to jot down
The saying, "Less is more" is definitely true when it comes to powerpoint, in
my opinion. I have used P-point for several years now, and each semester I
evaluate and revise what I showed the semester before. I find myself "pruning"
extensively. Maybe the same number of slides, but the
I am new to PowerPoint and used it a great deal in the past semester
including
as a lecture tool (showing slides during class) and handouts (giving
students
copies of my slides). The consistent comment I received was that the
slides
and handouts were "too much information."
I want to follow up on Annette's comment. I think she is correct in her
interpretation, but the question that then immediately came up was:
"Then why should we be giving it all to them?" What do we anticipate the
value of giving students our overheads, outlines, lecture notes, etc. is?
I am
Dear Interested TIPsters -
I was very careful to put essential nuggets down on my slides. Like Sally, I
provided the students handouts with 3 slides per page so they would have room
to write any additional notes.
My goal was to give students the majority of the information so that they
On 12 Jun 00, at 13:26, Vincent Prohaska wrote:
"Then why should we be giving it all to them?" What do we
anticipate the value of giving students our overheads, outlines,
lecture notes, etc. is? I am concerned that by giving them all this
stuff we are switching their focus away from thinking
