Posts Tagged ‘presentation skills’
May 9 - Creating the Perfect PowerPoint for Online Teaching
By: Errol Craig Sull in Teaching with Technology
While other forms of visual presentations have cropped up—such as Prezi and Empressr—PowerPoint remains the presentation software of choice. Yet many folks develop PowerPoint presentations without fully understanding all components of the software and/or presenter tricks that could make for much more effective PowerPoint presentations.
May 8 - How Can I Create More Effective Mini-Lectures?
By: Mary Bart in 20 Minute Mentor, Student Engagement
Active learning brings many benefits to the college classroom, but no matter how much emphasis your curriculum places on engaging students, sometimes you still have to disseminate information. This program explains how to deliver effective mini-lectures that resonate with your students.
February 21 - Student Presentations: Do They Benefit Those Who Listen?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
Almost everyone agrees that student presentations benefit the presenter in significant ways. By doing presentations, students learn how to speak in front a group, a broadly applicable professional skill. They learn how to prepare material for public presentation, and practice (especially with feedback) improves their speaking skills. But those of us who have students do presentations in class know there’s a downside—and that’s how the rest of the class responds to these presentations. When the teacher talks, students more or less have to pay attention, at least some of the time, but when their classmates present, they can be comatose. Not only does this make it more difficult for the presenter, it means the students listening are not likely having any sort of learning experience.
February 13 - To Improve Students’ Public Speaking Skills, Use The Moth
By: Miren Ivankovic, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies
Since about 2000 I have been associated with the global organization Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) that promotes student engagement in the communities for the betterment of our lives. SIFE is appealing because it invites teams to come, first, to their regional competitions, where each team in about 25 minutes has to impress judges (usually sponsoring firms’ upper-level management) with the team’s projects, but also with the quality of vocal and visual presentations.
