Re: [Phys-L] Power Point's Huge Waste of Paper
We use texts that come with power point slides. When those few unreflective
students I have (from the many more self-directed students) complain they
want lectures I direct them to the .PPT slides online, and suggest they go
home, download the slides and read them aloud in a darkened room. This
is comforting, I think for students who miss a class.
We then use that valuable class time for other things like discourse and group
problem solving.
Dan MacIsaac, Associate Professor of Physics, SUNY-Buffalo State College
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Physics Graduate Coordinator & NSF Investigator for ISEP (MSP) and Noyce
On Sep 3, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu> wrote:
> On 9/2/2014 2:21 PM, Bill Norwood wrote:
>
> Power Point is a tool, and as such can be used well or badly. The use
> described below is using it badly--IMO. Many of the descriptions others
> have given of NOT using Power Point could be done intelligently with Power
> Point with perhaps some gains in legibility and access. My personal anecdote
> is to post PP documents on our Blackboard course management software and let
> the students print (or not) copies for themselves (with encouragement to use
> the multi-slide print format which most adopt since they have to pay for the
> printing.) Since I don't have them buy a $200 book that they won't read,
> this is not a financial burden. I then use the slides during class more or
> less as an outline to encourage discussions and as a backbone onto which I
> add examples and details. Here it is 'to each his own' but used well Power
> Points can be an effective tool and may actually save some paper--or not!
>
> rwt
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Have you all noticed a person coming in to give a Power Point presentation
>> along with a hand truck loaded with paper copies of each PP page?
>>
>> It is my estimate that this system uses 10 or more times as much paper as
>> should be necessary.
>>
>> Any remarks?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Norwood, U of MD at College Park
>>
>
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