{"id":27,"date":"2004-12-13T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T06:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T02:27:18","slug":"lectures-aka-death-by-ppt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/lectures-aka-death-by-ppt-27","title":{"rendered":"Lectures (aka death by PPT?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep...<br \/>\n<span style=\"float: right;  display: inline; text-align:right\">(W. H. Auden)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So how long can students concentrate in a lecture?  A brilliant speaker, giving a one-off lecture (and this is important), can hold the attention of a group of interested adults for an hour, easily.  But the same person going to a weekly lecture with disinterested students may not have the same effect.<\/p>\n<p>From my observations, key issues are...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the lecturer involving the students in the learning (or just raving on in his own world)?<\/li>\n<li>Is the lecturer entertaining (not necessarily funny, but certainly interesting)?<\/li>\n<li>Does the lecturer give activity and reflection breaks so that students can engage in what they are being told?<\/li>\n<li>Is there variety (use of images, case studies, videos, music) or is it \"death by PowerPoint\"?<\/li>\n<li>How many 'factoids' are there? In some cases, 70 PPT slides in one hour with 5 dot points on each - how can you learn?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/lectures-aka-death-by-ppt-27#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep... (W. H. Auden) So how long can students concentrate in a lecture? A brilliant speaker, giving a one-off lecture (and this is important), can hold the attention of a group of interested adults for an hour, easily. But the same person going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}