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As a lecturers in a uni, I used to deliver all my lectures using slides, (PowerPoint, Beamer or Keynote). My problem with slides is that my students have a sta

by Daub 4y ago

As a lecturers in a uni, I used to deliver all my lectures using slides, (PowerPoint, Beamer or Keynote). My problem with slides is that my students have a stated preference for knowledge disseminated via simple web pages. So… I switched to simple web pages. They can be a bit clumsy to deliver in a live lecture, but at the end of the day a lecture succeeds or fails by my energy, not the medium. The advantage of working in this way is that it place me close to web searches, linked material etc. This serves the inevitable extemporaneous diversions I encounter via student questions.

karencarits 4y ago
Interesting, and since it's all about presentation, it would be quite easy to generate both a presentation with slides (say with reveal.js or beamer) and a web page from the same source (emacs, markdown, logseq, obsidian, ...)
zmgsabst 4y ago
Could you elaborate? — or would you be willing to share an example?
- dctoedt 4y ago
  I do the same as the GP; see, e.g., last Monday's class: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26
  - Daub 4y ago
    Very nice site... clean and clear.
- Daub 4y ago
  > Could you elaborate? There are several things that inform my prefference for 'vanilla' web over slides. 1. Many students are on mobile or a small laptop, and slides do not work well on a small screen. 2. Downloading pdfs can be a bore. 3. Most of our teaching is done on the Learning Management System (LMS) Canvas, and Keeping learning media web-based places teaching material nice and close to this. 4. As I keep all my material in one large open-access Canvas, I can cross link to other lecture material. In this way, assignment descriptions are peppered with appropriate support material. 5. Web pages is a live entity that can be updated at ease. > or would you be willing to share an example? Sure... The following is taken from our OER, other stuff is restricted. - Western art history. Very linear, fairly vanilla: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/749876 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/749876 - Typography crimes. By my talented colleague: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/774270 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/774270 - Colour for artists. I must have done this one 100 times. A tough task to present key knowledge in a streamlined manner. https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/696256 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/696256 I have not given up on slides altogether. In fact, only last week I made some slides to address the topic of colour to high school students. In that instance, the linearity of slides served the task effectively.
dctoedt 4y ago
My students have said they prefer a Web page over slides, for the same reasons. (Example, posted in a grandchild comment: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 )

by Daub 4y ago

karencarits 4y ago

Interesting, and since it's all about presentation, it would be quite easy to generate both a presentation with slides (say with reveal.js or beamer) and a web page from the same source (emacs, markdown, logseq, obsidian, ...)

zmgsabst 4y ago

Could you elaborate? — or would you be willing to share an example?

dctoedt 4y ago
I do the same as the GP; see, e.g., last Monday's class: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26
- Daub 4y ago
  Very nice site... clean and clear.
Daub 4y ago
> Could you elaborate? There are several things that inform my prefference for 'vanilla' web over slides. 1. Many students are on mobile or a small laptop, and slides do not work well on a small screen. 2. Downloading pdfs can be a bore. 3. Most of our teaching is done on the Learning Management System (LMS) Canvas, and Keeping learning media web-based places teaching material nice and close to this. 4. As I keep all my material in one large open-access Canvas, I can cross link to other lecture material. In this way, assignment descriptions are peppered with appropriate support material. 5. Web pages is a live entity that can be updated at ease. > or would you be willing to share an example? Sure... The following is taken from our OER, other stuff is restricted. - Western art history. Very linear, fairly vanilla: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/749876 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/749876 - Typography crimes. By my talented colleague: https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/774270 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/774270 - Colour for artists. I must have done this one 100 times. A tough task to present key knowledge in a streamlined manner. https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/696256 https://rmit.instructure.com/courses/87565/modules/696256 I have not given up on slides altogether. In fact, only last week I made some slides to address the topic of colour to high school students. In that instance, the linearity of slides served the task effectively.

dctoedt 4y ago

My students have said they prefer a Web page over slides, for the same reasons. (Example, posted in a grandchild comment: https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/#Day26 )