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The slide heard ’round the world

with Dave Stachowiak

| January 29, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about how to make your PowerPoint (or other) slides more effective.

Podcast notes

2010 headlines:

“US Army makes the world's worst PowerPoint slide”

“We have met the enemy and he is PowerPoint.”

Conflict in Afghanistan: Why developing a clear strategy was challenging.

PPT in the crosshairs

ppt

Edward Tufte (2006 publication) The cognitive style of ppt: There's no bullet list like Stalin's bullet list.

Can create bad PPT on tools besides PPT

Problems in higher ed

  • In the classroom
  • In online modules (flipped classroom)
  • At academic conferences

In the online magazine, Slate, Schuman expressed her views on just how bad it has become with PowerPoint use in education in an article called PowerPointless. She writes, “Digital slideshows are the scourge of education.”

“For class today I’ll be reading the PowerPoint word for word.” –every professor, everywhere. @collegegrlhumor

“College basically consist of you spending thousands of dollars for a professor to point at a PowerPoint and read the bullets.” @deliNeli

“Being a college professor would be easy. Read off a PowerPoint you made 10 years ago and give online quizzes with questions you googled.” –blazik

“srsly sick of all these power points. anyone can be a professor. all u need to know is how to run a power point.” @ChrisraMae17

“Y’all ever sat in a class, copied every word down of the power point, and still not kno a damn thing the professor said?” @BlkSuperMan

Richard Mayer's research shows if students w/out visuals 75% vs 89% re: bike pump

PowerPoint Slide Recommendations

Use PowerPoint slides for their intended purpose: to enhance your presentation, not deliver it.

Put less on your slides and use relevant visuals

Change your media focus at regular intervals

  • B key
  • Caffeine (for the Mac)
  • Caffeine alternatives (for PC/Windows)

Employ a non-linear slide structure

Choose your own adventure (episode 25 re: large classes w/ Chrissy Spencer)

Today's meet (requires laptops/smart devices)

Recommendations

Slack (Bonni)

Tapes  |  Screenflow  |  SnagIt  (Dave)

Tagged With: powerpoint, presentations

Lower your stress with a better approach to capture

with Dave Stachowiak

| January 22, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni and Dave Stachowiak talk about how to capture it all, so we can have lower stress and not have things fall through the cracks.

capture

Podcast notes

Guest: Dr. Dave Stachowiak

What is capture?

David Allen's Getting Things Done

Why capture?

Other-generated capture

  • Inboxes
  • Have as many as necessary and no more
  • Academics inboxes
  • Email
  • Phone- office line
  • Phone-other
  • Inbox office
  • Inbox home
  • Inbox bag
  • Students after class

Tools

  • Drafts
  • Evernote
  • Soundever
  • Scannable
  • Zero inbox
  • David Allen's folders

Self generated capture

  • Roles
  • Projects

Tools

  • David Allen's templates
  • OmniFocus
  • RTM
  • Post its plus
  • Mindnode

Recommendations

Paprika recipe manager app (Bonni)

Amazon Fresh (Dave)

Tagged With: capture, podcast, productivity

All that cannot be seen

| January 15, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

On today’s episode, I talk about all that cannot be seen.

ALL THAT CANNOT BE SEEN
Photo by Jim Frazee of Southwest Search Dogs. Used with permission (he's my Dad).

 

Podcast notes

  • Mystery commercial that I really hope someone can find and send to me
  • Augmented reality
    • How Stuff Works explains augmented reality
    • Mashable's augmented reality stories
  • Yik yak chat service (For reasons explained in the podcast, I would rather not link to this particular app/service)
  • [EDIT: 1/15/15/ at 10:20 am]: Right after recording this episode, I listened to episode 9 the Reply All podcast by Gimlet Media. I have even less certainty now about whether or not we should stay far away from Yik Yak, or get in there and spread some positivity and make our presence known. I welcome your thoughts either privately, or in the comments, below.  
  • Southwest Search Dogs

Online forum introductions

Our perceptions really do matter

Our expectations can shape outcomes in others…

This American Life previewed Invisiblia on an episode called: Batman

Especially the beginning re mindset on This American Life

NPR Science reporters Alix Spiegel and Lulu Miller explain to Ira Glass how they smuggled a rat into NPR headquarters in Washington, and ran an unscientific version of a famous experiment first done by Psychology Professor Robert Rosenthal. It showed how people’s thoughts about rats could affect their behavior. Another scientist, Carol Dweck, explains that it’s true for people too: expectations affect students, children, soldiers, in measurable ways. (6 minutes)

Invisibilia

Invisibilia is a series about the invisible forces that shape human behavior. The show interweaves personal stories with scientific research that will make you see your own life differently.

Assume the best… and talk through the gaps…

Episode 14 on Dealing with Difficult Students in Higher Ed

Our diverse students

Recommendation

Coach.me

Teaching Naked

with Jose Bowen

| January 8, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

It is easy to want to cover up in some way as professors…

In today’s episode, President Jose Antonio Bowen encourages us to become good at “Teaching Naked.”

A conversation with Jose Bowen

Podcast notes

Guest: Dr. Jose Antonio Bowen, President, Goucher College

Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

Recommendations (part 1)

This episode, we start with Bonni's recommendation and ask Dr. Bowen questions from Storycorps.

  • Storycorps
  • About Storycorps
  • Storycorps's Great questions
  • Danny and Annie's animated story
  • Ask your colleagues the questions related to working from Storycorps

Teaching Naked

The thing that teachers do best in the classroom is to be human beings, and to get to know their students as human beings, and to make that connection between what matters to their students and what matters to them. (Jose Bowen)

  • Start with what matters to your students
  • Used to have the advantage, based on knowledge
  • Use class time to make genuine connections and not simply for providing information
  • Technology works great outside the classroom for quizzing, communication, etc.
  • We know more about teaching than we did when we were in school
  • Pedagogy needs to be our central focus, and most of us weren't trained in it

A teaching failure

Bonni admits to one of her bigger failures in teaching in the past few years

Driving the stick shift car and not always having it turn out the way we want it to

Overcoming the failures – Jose gives advice

We are opaque as to our own intellectual accent. Everybody has an accent in the way they speak, but they also have an accent in the way they think.

Academics, in particular, are bad examples of learning, because we learned in spite of the system. We're the odd balls. We're the weirdos. We're the people who liked school so much that we're still here.

Most students don't learn that way.

Failure is simply part of the game. Disconnect is just part of what happens. (Dr. Jose Bowen)

  • Embrace mistakes
  • Admit when things go wrong
  • Describe why you tried what you did
  • Model change (“I changed my mind.”)

The end of the story

The Naked Classroom

  • Furniture moves around; no rows
  • No technology / screen
  • Index cards
  • Noisy
  • Laptops aren't typically necessary

Nobody uses a laptop while doing yoga or playing tennis (Jose Bowen)

I believe in noisy and messy classrooms. Complexity. Lots of failures. People having to confront real problems. Confront each other. Confront me… (Jose Bowen)

For beginners… need to set the stage and expectations… after that, they know how the game works.

Twitter

  • Jose on Twitter
  • Bonni on Twitter 
  • Michael Hyatt's beginners' guide to Twitter
  • Bonni's resources to help you learn Twitter

Recommendations (part 2)

Jose closes the podcast episode with his recommendations.

  • Merlot II: Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching
  • SmashFact: Create custom study apps for your students' devices

Change is hard. It's hard for you and it's hard for your students… Keep asking your students what's working. Expect some failure. It's not a linear process.

That's the process of learning and we're all learning how to do something new: And that's how to be better, more engaged teachers.  (Jose Bowen)

Closing credits

  • Subscribe to the weekly update and receive the Educational Technology Essentials Guide
  • Give feedback on the podcast or ideas for future topics/guests

 

Tagged With: edtech, podcast, teaching

Specifications Grading

with Linda Nilson

| January 1, 2015 | XFacebookLinkedInEmail

There’s something wrong with the way we’re grading that isn’t being talked about nearly enough.

On today’s show, Dr. Linda Nilson shares about a whole new way of thinking about assessing students’ work and making grades mean more.

Podcast Notes

Dr. Linda B. Nilson

Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University

  • Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
  • The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course
  • Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness and Learning Skills
  • Specifications Grading: Restoring rigor, motivating students, and saving faculty time

Specifications grading

Advocating a new way of grading from University of Pittsburgh University Times

The problem with “traditional” grading

Academic and Occupational Performance: A Quantitative Synthesis (Samson, Graue, Weinstein & Walberg)

.155 correlation meta analysis done by Sampson
2.4% of the variance in career success

2006 study by the American Institutes for Research
Fewer than 1/2 of four year college graduates
Fewer than 3/4 of two year college graduates
Demonstrate literary proficiency

Explanation of specifications grading

Bundles
Virtual tokens

Robert Talbert blog
Casting out nines

How specifications grading came to be

Benefits

Concerns

Recommendations

Bonni: PollEverywhere (new features)

Linda: Cultivate your courage by trying out things you’re afraid of…

Tagged With: grading, podcast

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