On Wednesday 29 July 2009 17:26:20 Anselm Lingnau wrote: > Jocelyn wrote: > > Just asking if there is instructors on the list and asking how they > > delivering courses on what Presentation slides ? > > As leading courseware providers we are frequently asked whether there are > presentation slides to go with our manuals. (In fact the decision whether > to purchase our manuals sometimes seems to hinge on the availability of > slides rather than other criteria which to the naive observer might seem > more important, like the arrangement of the content, the quality of the > writing, or the presence and quality of exercises. It's a strange world.)
Personally, I never used slides and would always switch the projector off. I also made students keep the courseware book closed. I found that with slides, the students would concentrate on the slide, or read the book and not listen to the instructor. They paid a fortnight's wages to have data move from my head to theirs, not to read books. My instructions style is that I talk to a bunch of actual people in front of me. I observe them, figure out where they are at and communicate at that level. I encourage interaction from the student, they can ask any sensible question at any time, and I never found a set of slides that properly suited any course. How could they? - no two courses are the same, people are involved. My somewhat limited observation of other instructors is that those who insist on having slides are to some degree replacing themselves with a slide instead of just standing there and talking to a person. But that's me and that's my style. Having said that, not all slide collections are bad. The RHCE ones are pretty good, I found they summarised the material nicely. But I always used them after discussing a topic, never before and certainly never during. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com _______________________________________________ lpi-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss
