Hi Mike must teach statistics in a remarkably different way than I do. For stats, I do not think there is any substitute for boardwork ... one can develop material in an incremental fashion (often idiosyncratically depending on responses of class), can keep earlier work to point out correspondences (assuming sufficient boardspace) without having to jump back and forth, can coordinate calculations on one area with conceptual elsewhere (e.g., having tree diagram for partitioning sums of squares and filling it in as one does calculations), .... For the computer stuff, I tend to run SPSS and coordinate it with pdfs of analyses (we also have a separate computer lab which is coordinated with what I call a tutorial lab).
As for blackboard vs whiteboard, I have no experience with the latter. But for most of my content courses, like Mike, I too have switched to powerpoint. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> 27-Mar-10 7:57:52 AM >>> Most of our whiteboards hang unused. Almost everyone has shifted to Powerpoint and projectors. Any kind of writing on a board is hard to see. Anything you can write on the board can be placed on a Powerpoint slide. You can also use the projector to show interactive software, such as SPSS demonstrations, and video. Finally, a whiteboard or blackboard medium never allows an adequate presentation for e-learning. Mike Williams Drexel University learnpsychology.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=1563 or send a blank email to leave-1563-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1566 or send a blank email to leave-1566-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
