Creative Teaching with PowerPoint and Prezi (#VizLearning12 Recap Part 4)
My nine-year-old tells me that we’re scheduled for a zombie apocalypse today, so I thought I would go ahead and wrap up …
Saturday Fun: Public-Speaking Tips from Dinosaur Hunters
I’ve been listening to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) on the Classic Tales Podcast. B. J. Harrison’s podcast features …
A Few FAQs (with Answers!) on Clickers from #nercompCRS
Two weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) special interest group meeting on classroom response …
A Few Favorite Blogs about Visual Thinking
Let’s take a break from thinking about Facebook, shall we? Recently I shared some of my favorite teaching blogs and technology blogs. …
See What I Mean: Visual Presentations
Earlier today I led a workshop for doctoral students in the Teaching & Learning department here on the use of effective visuals …
In Which I Comment on a Session I Did Not Attend (#lilly10)
Okay, one more post on the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November. I …
How to Deliver a Keynote While Sleeping (#estict)
As I mentioned earlier this month, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the 3rd ESTICT (Engaging Students Through In-Class Technologies) …
Is PowerPoint the Enemy?
In a recent tweet, Dan Cohen referred to the slide below as “the worst PowerPoint slide ever.” The slide accompanied a recent …
Clickers, Lecture Capture, and Event Programming
Over on the new Active Class blog, Sidneyeve Matrix recently discussed the idea of turning the college lecture into something like what …
Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses
Last week I facilitated a workshop titled “Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses” for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Since …