Read an interesting blog entry by Doug Belshaw from the UK about people who put up a Power Point slide presentation and then preceed to read directly from it. Boring!!!!! I agree and have been in that situation myself. However, I find myself doing that somewhat in class lecturing and the students copying the notes off the Power Point slides. At first seven years ago I was really bad and had way too many slides and notes. I guess I felt a complusion to put everything in writing up on the screen. I am better; now I have only 6 slides per chapter and am only doing American History myself with the new books we have chosen. World History and World Geography provide Power Point slide shows per chapter that are less wordy and more thought provoking. So, I am trying to learn how to do that; lecture and make the students actually read the material and use the slide presentations for more critical thinking. I am a work in progress.
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Glad my post caused you to reflect on your practice. I know the US and UK school systems are slightly different, but why are you 'lecturing' kids anyway?! :-)
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