And a strange evening was had by all.
We were delighted to invite Gerd Shrübberie, whose seminal work "God and Festschriften - The Persons and a Person" was probably better in the original German. As I don't speak German.
Gerd was good enough to preach us a two-hour sermon on "The Spiritual Gift of Overhead Projection." Needless to say, given the subject, he used a rather marvellous Powerpoint presentation to illustrate his case. Flow diagrams, pictures of valleys in the Holy Land, touching family scenes, the orbital structure of the Ruthenium atom, PERT diagrams - they were all in there. We left astounded with the power of his images, the way that a picture can speak a thousand words. Truly Overhead Projection is a wonderful thing.
Unfortunately I've no idea what he said.
I hate Overhead Projectors. Nothing beats a Chalk Board and duster, particularly the heavy ones that you can throw at recalcitrant students.
ReplyDeleteI found that OHP put students to sleep whatever the diverse subject matter, Equality and Diversity could put a class to sleep within 30 seconds of the opening shots.
My second favourite teaching aid was the trusty tin, dustbin lid, which was dropped at strategic moments, when I noticed 4 or more heads dropping.
It got their attention wonderfully.
I'm quite an old fashioned lecturer. I expect people to have pencil and notebook, and to take extensive notes. I will fire random questions at them at the end of a lesson and again as revision at the start of the next lesson. As they know that their gradings will depend on knowing their subject matter thoroughly, with 2 hours, written examinations - it seems to keep them awake, both during lessons and at night.
Off course, I'm not retired from teaching at Approved Schools and have become a pundit on football, not knowing much about it, but neither do most of the paid-pundits I see on MOTD.
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ReplyDeletesays it all for me