Timeline for Using slides in math classroom
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| Nov 7, 2011 at 19:02 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Ultimately, I'd be happy to "let lectures operate on their own terms" (assuming that it were in my power to do anything) so long as they genuinely were their terms. I don't care if I persuade anyone to do anything in particular so long as I persuade them to think about what they do. Just like with the slides, you can't copy anyone else's style exactly, but you can borrow ideas and techniques and build your own style. Having lots of different ideas can help you ensure that you aren't artificially limited in what choices you make. | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 19:00 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Thierry: Did you read the first sentence of my last paragraph? Part of my intransigence is the fact that I always feel in these discussions that there is a strong "Don't use slides" answer (even though the questioner asked directly for experiences of using slides) so I was partly trying to counter it. I wish I had seen every single approach to lectures done brilliantly (and poorly). I'm afraid that my experience has been very limited so I find myself having to invent my own techniques, and when I do I like to share what I've learnt. | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 16:30 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | @Andrew: I am very amused by your intransigence. I can understand drawing personal battle lines and saying: "I won't do x", but your answer here sounds a lot more like: "no-one should do x". All rules have their exceptions, and I'm quite willing to let lecturers operate on their own terms. I must have seen every single approach to lectures done brilliantly, and every one of them done poorly, depending on who was giving the talk... | |
| Nov 6, 2011 at 8:15 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Anyone curious as to my iPad set-up should take a look at this: tex.blogoverflow.com/2011/10/i-tex-therefore-ipad | |
| Nov 5, 2011 at 23:39 | comment | added | Ryan Reich | I appreciate all these tips (advice or not). I'm just trying for the first time to give a beamer course and this is a very timely question for me. | |
| Nov 5, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | What iPad software do you use? Do you use a stylus - I can't write legibly with my fat fingertip.. | |
| Nov 5, 2011 at 22:18 | history | answered | Andrew Stacey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |