The Educational Technology Committee asks: What are your 2010 goals?
The new year is off and running. This month we would like to ask: What are your 2010 goals? Is there a course that you want to revise? Is there a new teaching strategy that you’d like to implement? Maybe there is a new technology tool you’d like to learn and incorporate into your courses?
Here are a few more ideas you might want to consider:
* Start a podcast series
* Create a delicious resource site for your course
* Record a narrated PowerPoint for a tricky concept in your course
* Design a tutorial for a complicated procedure in your course
* Learn how to use Dreamweaver and brush up on your HTML skills
* Incorporate a wiki with your course
* Start your very own blog on a topic or specialty that you are passionate about
* Learn how to use an RSS aggregator
The good news is that for any of your technology related goals The Ed Tech Committee will be featuring a series of faculty development sessions this year on the topics listed above and more!
Whatever your 2010 goals may be, we wish you much success in achievement and we hope we can assist you. Please add a comment to this blog post and share some of your goals.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Quick resources for creating better presentations
One of the appealing things about using Powerpoint presentations is also one of the biggest negatives: it is very easy to create basic slides that consist of a title and list of bulletted content. Unfortunately, this approach is part of the problem as text-heavy slides tend to put audiences into a sleep-inducing trance. These basic slides are just one example of how NOT to create presentations, which is captured in a very funny way by this video.
However, there are many ways to improve your Powerpoint slide making skills. I think of this improvement as a combination of conceptually changing how you think about the delivery of content and ideas in a presentation along with necessary steps you need to know within the Powerpoint (or other presentation software such as Keynote and others) program to implement these concepts.
There are a number of bloggers who regularly discuss presentation design. Garr Reynold's Zen Presentation blog is a good one to read along with his book by the same name. Here is a brief 7-minvideo overview of key design concepts he promotes:
I have found his key principles very helpful in changing how I approach my presentations. I now tend to minimize the amount to text, use simple images to convey meaning, and use key points and repetition to try optimize learning.
Next time I will share resources related to the mechanics of using Powerpoint to achieve your goals.
Tim
However, there are many ways to improve your Powerpoint slide making skills. I think of this improvement as a combination of conceptually changing how you think about the delivery of content and ideas in a presentation along with necessary steps you need to know within the Powerpoint (or other presentation software such as Keynote and others) program to implement these concepts.
There are a number of bloggers who regularly discuss presentation design. Garr Reynold's Zen Presentation blog is a good one to read along with his book by the same name. Here is a brief 7-minvideo overview of key design concepts he promotes:
I have found his key principles very helpful in changing how I approach my presentations. I now tend to minimize the amount to text, use simple images to convey meaning, and use key points and repetition to try optimize learning.
Next time I will share resources related to the mechanics of using Powerpoint to achieve your goals.
Tim
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