Thank you all for your thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of distributing
lecture notes. I thought I would let you know how it turned out. This is for a
graduate class in statistics, which I am developing and teaching for the first time.
I made lecture notes available roughly
Nancy (below) said exactly what I wanted to say, but did it better.
Rip Pisacreta
I am not a geezer, but I also never touched a multiple choice test after
high
school. The exams at my school were all essay and we also read not
textbooks
but original source material.
For this reason,
Rick wrote:
I guess that I am an old geezer. I teach real college courses for real
college students. If they can think, assimilate information, engage in
critical thinking, fine. I refuse to bring down traditional higher ed. to
accommodate unqualified, or lazy students.
Call me crazy but
In a message dated 3/2/2002 3:51:33 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
guess that I am an old geezer. I teach real college courses for real college students. If they can think, assimilate information, engage in critical thinking, fine. I refuse to bring down traditional higher
I respect the various techniques that people are using for their teaching situations. However, I can't help but feel that distributing lecture notes and Powerpoint slides helps turn the course into a passive recepient exercise like watching television. I believe that students should learn what's
"Richard Pisacreta, Ph.D." wrote:
I respect the various techniques that people
are using for their teaching situations. However, I can't help but feel
that distributing lecture notes and Powerpoint slides helps turn the course
into a passive recepient exercise like watching tel
Hi all,
I do also not give lecture notes before_hand. My areas,
Psychophysiology Neuropsychology, do need the
students to go back to past years for some revision
of basic physiological material. I have found that giving
them notes before_hand may allow some students to
skip good material as well
in the
learning, and I think that I'm a better teacher when I do that as
opposed to lecturing. What this has to do with distributing lecture
notes, I have no idea! :)
__
Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
LeTourneau University
Another thought...
Stephen, I'll plead a source monitoring problem...
Maybe it's not necessary to clarify but I think that attendance should be
an important motivator. I know that I have students who do not come to
class because they can get the notes (and some of them probably are the
better
more) during our
next discussion.
I really love getting my students more actively involved in the
learning, and I think that I'm a better teacher when I do that as
opposed to lecturing. What this has to do with distributing lecture
notes, I have no idea
concerns in the classroom is how to help my
students become active learners. My concern with distributing lecture
notes is that some students may feel that they don't really need to
actively read the text, take their own study notes, attend class, etc.
Maybe someone who is a better lecturer than
Rod Hetzel wrote:
What has been successful for me this semester is assigning discussion
questions for each class. This means the students are more likely to
read the material before class and come to class with a basic grasp of
the material...
Like some others, I choose not to provide notes
Stephen Black wrote:
In reference to NOT making copies of notes avaialbe before class:
But it does prevent students from annotating the notes in real
time, which would be helpful. And students do ask me to make them
available beforehand. I decline.
One strategy I have employed is to number my
, and I think that I'm a better teacher when I do that as
opposed to lecturing. What this has to do with distributing lecture
notes, I have no idea! :)
__
Roderick D. Hetzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
LeTourneau University
President
: distributing lecture notes
I was going to stay out of this, but there's nothing like having
your name pop up to make you pay attention...
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Shannon Gadbois wrote:
I came up with a compromise. I changed my slides to only include the
key
points of any of the content I was discussing
TIPSters,
Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? I am going to
experiment with doing so for my graduate stats class. I will email them the notes to
print out, so they'll also be able to add space for their own notes. At the end of
the week I'll get feedback
Yes, I make my lecture outlines available on my website for those who are
interested in printing them out.
I've found that several students bring them to class to take notes on. It
hasn't sped up my lecture as far as I can tell, because I still take the
time to write my outline on the board
Charlotte Manly wrote:
TIPSters,
Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? I am going to
experiment with doing so for my graduate stats class. I will email them the notes to
print out, so they'll also be able to add space for their own notes. At the end of
Charlotte Manly wrote:
TIPSters,
Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? ...
I do my lectures with PowerPoint and I give the notes (6 slides per page) to the
library. They put the notes on their web site. The students seem to like it. I
think that they
Some brief thoughts:
This topic came up last summer. At the time I was debating about how to
proceed with my intro classes. I found the discussion at the time very
valuable but I was still concerned about making my PPT slides accessible to
students...would they use the access to the slides as
) during our
next discussion.
I really love getting my students more actively involved in the
learning, and I think that I'm a better teacher when I do that as
opposed to lecturing. What this has to do with distributing lecture
notes, I have no idea
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Subject:Re: distributing lecture notes
Charlotte Manly wrote:
TIPSters,
Do any of you
Do any of you distribute your lecture notes to students (in advance)? I
am going to experiment with doing so for my graduate stats class. I will
email them the notes to print out, so they'll also be able to add space
for their own notes. At the end of the week I'll get feedback to find
I was going to stay out of this, but there's nothing like having
your name pop up to make you pay attention...
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Shannon Gadbois wrote:
I came up with a compromise. I changed my slides to only include the key
points of any of the content I was discussing (thanks for the
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