Dr. Kelly is from the English Department at Gannon – he uses technology to help students give oral presentations. This example come from his professional writing and communication course.
Materials that he built this practice around -
- Donald Finkel’s Teaching with your mouth shut
- Designing professional communications: balancing format and creativity (student textbook)
- Audio clips demonstrating techniques
- Video recording for self-analysis (what one needs to do better next time)
The process
- Read text material
- Listen to an expert
- Give presentation
- Analyze the recording of the presentation
- Repeat the process six weeks later
Funny thought this is all in the handout (printed from powerpoint) but I thought it important to type this here…
When where the audio clips presented…
After reading section from the book… but were they listened to in class via web, cms….
Audio files came from Daniel Pink’s lecture at Chautauqua institute.
Concepts presented in audio clips -
- Repetition
- Stating Your Thesis
- Giving an Overview
- Use Examples
For the video capture and shared with the students as a .wma file.
Next is TURNING Point Clickers
- Rationale for using PRS system
- Helps raise exam scores (drastically lower number of D’s and F’s from the first exam per a lunch conversation)
- Increase participations
- Measure conceptual understanding
