This post is a sequel to the post titled “PowerPoint Whiteboarding.”
As the newly appointed university professor looks for new ways to involve his students, this is what he’s up to now.
Here are some pictures of a similar technique but trying to get student more engaged and up at the whiteboard with Post-its too.
He says: “I am learning that making good lessons is about improvising in the moment and judging the feeling of the room to keep the momentum going. That is really difficult! I even find myself tweaking slides during breaks to respond to the situation, but it doesn’t always succeed!”
It’s always hard to keep students engaged and listening during a class and especially so during a long one. Here are five “low tech” suggestions for teaching with slides from a university professor:
- Design the slides so that certain content is missing, allowing for interaction and construction with the students
- Project the slides over a whiteboard
- Use markers to fill-in-the-blanks and to comment/expand on the content
- Invite students to take notes and build the content during the class
- Take a digital photograph of the whiteboard before erasing.
Here are some photographs I received from him that give a better idea:
What do you think?
Have you used this method with your presentations?
If you want to show a lot of data, spread it out onto multiple slides, with one key message per slide.
The slide shown above comes from a recent seminar. Too many bits of information on a single slide dilute the message. In addition, the slanted writing in the background also competes with the data for attention.
If you are not familiar with Garr Reynolds and his presentation zen blog/books, take a look at some of his great examples of having just one key message per slide. His books are listed in the right column with other reading suggestions.
