>If those motivational trainers that businesses hire can get >the dumpy, bald guy from accounts to feel confident about >public speaking in a day, it can't be beyond the wit of >academics to pass such a skill on to CS students, can it?
It's tougher than you think and it is also a problem fitting it in to the curriculum. We do a lot of presentation work with our Information Systems students and it really makes a difference and it is pleasing to see how people can blossom. However this is very much an integral part of a particular module that we teach them and fitting that kind of work into the modules taken by our CS students is difficult - not least of all because of the nubmers of students involved. They all have to do presentations (and they all have to make display posters as well now which is also useful) but never enough to get some of them to be really easy with it. L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
