Teaching
& Instructional Media
Common
teaching methods
Strengths
and limitations of 14 teaching methods
Creating Effective Powerpoint Presentations
PowerPoint can be a useful tool for creating engaging presentations. A well-designed slide show serves as a visual aid and helps keep an audience's attention. On the other hand, small mistakes that people commonly make with PowerPoint can cause it to be distracting rather than helpful.
Media
Selection & Design
Explain:
Some of the practical factors to be considered in media selection and
instructional handouts. Handouts can be a very useful instructional
tool. There are some purposes of handouts and some guidelines for preparing
effective handouts to accompany lectures.
Media and
Visual Materials
Visual aids are most often used to illustrate or reinforce lecture material,
but they can also be used to stimulate discussion and encourage student
participation. For example, one award-winning teacher at UNC introduces
statistical graphs by first asking students what they think a particular
graph would look like, based on material they have already read or discussed.
Recommendations
for Best Use of Blackboard (PDF file)
The integration of Web-based learning components with Blackboard software
brings added value to traditional education. The advantage of online
education make a significant impact in higher education. The advantages
of online education make a significant impact in higher education today
and, as technology evolves, promise to deliver even greater benefits
in the future.
PowerPoint,
No! Cyberspace, Yes
Technology
is transforming our lives, including our lives as teachers. But why
and how it will transform our teaching needs to be examined. One "why"
is that it can enhance student learning because it allows us to do some
things better and even to do some things that we couldn't without it.
PowerPoint
Is Not Evil
Imagine
a learning technology that: is insensitive to individual students' backgrounds,
interests, and prior knowledge, does nothing to tell you about whether
or not your students are "getting it." presents material in
a strictly linear fashion, and encourages students to passively absorb
information.
Creating
an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
Creating
an Effective PowerPoint Presentation
How
to create an effective PowerPoint presentation
Consider
the following as you plan and create your PowerPoint presentation. In-class
presentations will be assessed based on these criteria. Content is the
most important part of your presentation.
Five
Fundamental Uses of Computers in Teaching and Learning
This
article is intended for people who are confused about how to plug all
this new computer stuff into their teaching. It describes five basic
uses of computers, and then shows how these five uses can be (a) utilized
alone, (b) combined with one another, and/or (c) combined with other
learning activities."
Strategies and Applications for the One Computer Classroom
This
page is talking about how to use the computer in various teaching ways
Using
Computer Conferencing in Courses: Some Suggestions for Faculty
Keys to Successful Computer Conferencing in Courses
Instructional
Media: Chalkboard to Video
Different
types of educational experiences exist -- from hands-on apprenticeships
to role-playing, from demonstrations to reading printed text. Some educators
believe that different experiences are more or less effective for achieving
different types of instructional outcomes. Instructors who are considering
the use of media should ask themselves, “How do I expect the media or
type of learning activity to make learning more effective?”
Using
Course Websites as Instructional Tools (PDF file)
Using
its long history of developing and offering face-to-face instruction
and its large investment in technology, Florida State University has
developed online instructional tools for use in the traditional classroom,
the web-enhanced class, and in fully online courses. In this chapter
we discuss every aspect of creating and maintaining an online course.
Linking Classroom and Community
This
review of the literature focuses on experiential learning in higher
education. This review is, in fact timely, as there is renewed academic
interest in experiential learning. While the literature suggests that
experiential learning is a necessary and vital component of formal instruction
in colleges and universities, controversy never-the-less exists among
scholars and educators about its place and use.
Peer Instruction
Peer
Instruction actively engages the students in their own learning. Carefully
chosen questions (ConcepTests) give students the opportunity to discover
and correct their misunderstandings of the material, and, in the process,
learn the key ideas of physics from one another.
Lecture demonstrations
Demonstrations
are universally agreed to be the fun part of physics classes. But do
students actually learn much from them? The answer from education research
seems to be no!
How
to Keep Your Students Thinking
Begin
the course or the lecture with a question or questions that help you
to understand what students are thinking: To introduce new topics and
find out students' assumptions, ask students to jot down answers to
some questions on their own and then combine answers in a small group.
Media Selection
The
effectiveness of course design depends upon the media selected to help
communicate the content.
