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

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

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

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

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

Today’s meet (requires laptops/smart devices)

Slack (Bonni)

Tapes  |  Screenflow  |  SnagIt  (Dave)

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.

Guest: Dr. Dave Stachowiak

What is capture?

David Allen’s Getting Things Done

Why capture?

Paprika recipe manager app (Bonni)

Amazon Fresh (Dave)

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

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.

Episode 14 on Dealing with Difficult Students in Higher Ed

Coach.me

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.”

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

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

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

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)

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)

The end of the story

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.

Jose closes the podcast episode with his recommendations.

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)

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.

Dr. Linda B. Nilson

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

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

2006 study by the American Institutes for Research

Bundles

Robert Talbert blog

Benefits

Concerns

Bonni: PollEverywhere (new features)

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