Comments on: To Lecture Or To Do Something Else /2007/to-lecture-or-to-do-something-else/ less helpful Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:42:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Scott Elias /2007/to-lecture-or-to-do-something-else/#comment-9522 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:21:17 +0000 /?p=265#comment-9522 I guess that’s mostly my point: It’s all about the presentation. As Dan has eloquently pointed out on several occasions, a flashy slide deck incorporating all the whiz-bang visuals will only get you so far. After that, the content and the presenter had better be good.

Writing my latest post on this issue (http://tinyurl.com/2mvom5), it struck me again how all we’re really talking about is a paradigm shift in the tools that are available to bring content to our students. Where once an effective teacher made use of a blackboard and a class set of slates, a few years back I made use of a TI-83 projector and a class set of graphing calculators. Today, all the blogs, wikis, or class sets of laptops money can buy will not do anything to rescue a poorly executed presentation.

Dan, I know you’re tired of hearing about it, but for me, I think writing those posts about lecturing and reading your “Please stop” post from last week really struck a chord. So thanks for indulging me while I catch up and synthesize all of this for myself.

It will definitely make me think twice before presenting for the first time in front of the faculty and staff at my new school.

]]> By: Chris Lehmann /2007/to-lecture-or-to-do-something-else/#comment-9493 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:47:43 +0000 /?p=265#comment-9493 I can get away with pure presentation style, because I’m an energy ball, but what’s so funny is that I get really self-conscious and sick of the sound of my own voice after about 15 minutes tops. (If I’m off my game — and I know it — it’s after about two minutes.) I really prefer workshop style or Q&A style, but it’s tough because at a NECC, people often expect you to just talk at them.

Go figure.

]]> By: Jeff Wasserman /2007/to-lecture-or-to-do-something-else/#comment-9449 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:11:16 +0000 /?p=265#comment-9449 Yeah, that’s why I walked out of NCTE last November–too many lectures by people who ought to have known better (either how to do a better lecture, or that the material they were presenting would’ve been better served in a different format).

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