We just went through a crisis over this issue and I succeeded in getting a whiteboard in our stats/methods room in addition to chalkboard. There is also a computer projector when I demonstrate something in MINITAB, which happens AFTER I fill the whiteboard.
I have to use either a white or chalkboard to be able to build a cohesive example or concept, and I want the flexibility to do it slightly differently each time. Plus, a student question can trigger a tangent, so I cannot do stats on ppt. As to white vs chalk, I prefer the greater contrast on the whiteboard, the availability of different colors which comes in handly when you want to segregate some elements into different chunks (say, formulas vs computations), the lack of dust on my pants, and, I just LIKE the squeak of the whiteboard better than the scrape of the chalk ------Original Message------ From: Jim Clark To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) ReplyTo: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Blackboard vs Whiteboard Sent: Mar 27, 2010 9:30 AM 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=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=1566 or send a blank email to leave-1566-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular --- 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=1569 or send a blank email to leave-1569-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
