Sam’s random musings

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p>Your Teaching Skills: Worse Than You Think?:

Here’s something not on DV but squarely aimed at teachers: how effective is your presentation style? if you haven’t thought about it recently, it’s probably worse than you think.

How to Stand and Deliver (signal vs. Noise) recaps this November 2003 article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about effective methods for presenting to classes or groups: public speaking, in other words. The site with the first link, 37Signals, also posts notes on a lecture by Edward Tufte, the star of information design.

All too often students watch their instructors read their PowerPoint slides, an unconscious, implicit, and unacknowledged insult to their intelligence. I highly recommend these links and the thoughtful information within them to any one who speaks to more than two people at a time.

READ these.

(Via DV For Teachers News.)