[lpi-discuss] looking for courseware

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday, 13 May 2005 23:30, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Do any of you other instructors provide materials/courseware that
> covers 100 percent (or near) of what you teach?

I do this. It suits my style of delivery and I want to give the 
students something that will become a future reference for them

> Also, for lectures, I usually have a slide-type presentation. But
> for hands-on classes, I find it difficult to keep a slide-type
> presentation and then also use whiteboard for more notes and also
> jumping back to consoles for real-time examples.

I don't use projectors and slide - hate the dam things. I want the 
students to listen and talk to me. A slide can't communicate, but a 
person can.

I use one tool only - a very big white board. I arrange the desks so 
they are all together in a bunch in the middle of the room and I can 
walk round and round seeing what each student is doing.

If a student battles a bit with something, I help him out on his 
machine where he can get his hands on the keyboard and play around. 
If I use a machine connected to a projector I don't have the 
advantage of that immediacy.

Very occasionally it would be nice to demo some concept on a big 
screen, but I've always been able to work around it.

I prefer smaller classes where I have 6-10 individuals that I can 
handle individually.

> How do you all take advantage of slides and real examples from same
> workstation/overhead projection and use of whiteboard?

I don't do this. The reason is that I find lots of students look at 
the example in a sort of disassociated way. It's easier for me to 
make the student type on his own keyboard with me looking over hsi 
shouldr.

alan
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