Hi,
At the Midwest Institute for the Teaching of Psychology (MITOP), Suzy Shapiro
had a very nice handout for preparing PowerPoint presentations. She has
suggestions such as how many lines per slide, etc. As a person who prepared a
set of PowerPoints for a textbook, I thought her ideas were very good. In fact,
I wish I had them before I made the ones for t he publisher!! I would be happy
to mail you a copy if you send me your snail mail address.
jim
p.s. my address is at the verrrrrrry bottom of this e-mail
Harry Avis wrote:
> I have been using Astound and PowerPoint presentations in my classes for at
> least five years. My experience has been mixed but overall positive. I use a
> spare outline on my powerpoint slides (basically the ABC heads from the
> text). I choose the option of printing handouts 3 to a page. This handout
> prints the three slides on the left side of the page and on the right there
> are lines for taking notes. The students who want to learn use this and
> appreciate them. Those who don't care ask me for the slides the class before
> the exam.
> I think a major factor is not the use of powerpoint -whether downloaded from
> the Web or handed out in class- but the requirements for the LCD projector.
> I find that I have to get the room fairly dark ( it is a long narrow
> classroom) and this darkness encourages sleeping. I also feel I lose some
> contact with the students. I keep the lights in the back of the classroom on
> whenever possible and have a cordless mouse with a range of 50 feet so I can
> wander throughout the classroom at will. My LCD projector is at least five
> years old. I have just submitted an capital outlay request for the new
> generation LCD which can reach 1500 ANSI lumens. Another instructor has one
> and it is several jnds better than mine.
> I haven't noticed any substantial difference in my grades in either
> direction however I have found it most valuable for me. The powerpoint
> slides help me stay on task and help me avoid rambling. However I have
> noticed that they also seem to reduce sudden insights that I have had while
> teaching without slides. What some call sudden insights others call loose
> associations.
> The other advantage to me is that I feel that I have taken the extra step.
> Not only do the students get an organized lecture but they also have my
> lecture notes (I do not use canned powerpoint slides). It is up to them to
> learn the material.
>
> >From: "Michael J. Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Stephen W Tuholski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TIPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Powerpoint notes (was Chained Overheads)
> >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 14:00:21 -0500
> >
> >At 11:33 AM 3/20/01 -0600, Stephen W Tuholski wrote:
> >>(snip)
> >>Last year I decided to use Power Point for all of my lectures. One of the
> >>perceived benefits was that I could upload the power point presentations
> >>on my web page, allowing students to download them before class. I
> >>reasoned that students could use these downloads to follow along while
> >>taking additional notes. This sounded really nice, and I thought that if
> >>anything, grades would go up. Amazingly, grades seem to have dropped
> >>since I started putting the power points on-line. My explanation is that
> >>students simply download and study my notes, but they are paying LESS
> >>attention to me in class. Has anyone else had this happen to them? If
> >>this is the problem, do you suggest NOT putting the notes on-line? I am
> >>hesitant to do that, because the better students really like having them
> >>in advance, and they are using them the way I intended.
> >
> >Steve, I've heard this complaint, independently, from a number of
> >colleagues using PowerPoint
> >notes in their undergraduate classes. I wonder whether you might consider
> >making your overheads
> >more spare. I post outlines of my lecture notes on the web, and students
> >print them out to use
> >for note-taking purposes. However, these outlines are truly outlines,
> >intended only to help students
> >see/use the organization of my lectures. To get the content, they need to
> >be in class to fill it in.
> >
> >In any case, if this problem is as widespread as my personal experiences
> >are indicating of late,
> >someone needs to do a study on it.
> >
> >-Mike
> >
> >
> >************************************************
> >Michael J. Kane
> >Department of Psychology
> >P.O. Box 26164
> >University of North Carolina at Greensboro
> >Greensboro, NC 27402-6164
> >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >phone: 336-256-1022
> >fax: 336-334-5066
> >
>
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