Lecture enhancements

[Marielle Lange]

Dear Michael,

The name of Melbourne evoke excellent memories ... I spent two years  
in Australia, for a post-doc (Sydney, UNSW) and had such a great time  
there!

The issue is not really a practical one. As you mention, it is very  
easy to switch to the Finder (keynote suggests a mac user) and back  
or even to create within powerpoint a button that will start the  
revolution application.

Nowadays, about anything can be achieved, technically speaking. The  
decision should therefore be made depending on your learning goals.

What is more important? That your student actively engage with the  
demonstration or that they go through your different demonstrations  
in strict sequential order? Are the demonstrations completely  
independent from the text of the powerpoint presentation? Should the  
student be given to reorganize the material in a way that best suit  
his own mental model (and understanding of the field)? Is it  
important that each student fully engage with each demonstration or  
is it acceptable for them to study some topics more in depths than  
others?

Personally, I generally prefer to store separately text and  
illustration/demonstrations. A demonstration/revolution stack is  
easier to reuse in different contexts (web page, computer-based demo  
for the open day in the department) or share with colleagues  
(catalogue of learning objects).

Are your CAL applications open source (would you consider sharing  
them with people on this list)?

Best wishes,
Marielle


> Dear all,
>
> I am a university lecturer and have for many years used large and  
> small applications (initially Hypercard and now Revolution) to  
> enhance my teaching, although, to be honest, my early attempts were  
> more tolerated than embraced by my students. Nowadays I have  
> several large applications that are used as standalone CALs  
> (computer-aided learning [modules]) and a lot of small, single  
> screen widgets that I show as part of my lectures., They are often  
> just simple animations, but some are simulations of experiments.  
> The faculty Biomedical Multimedia Unit has recently started to  
> promote the production and use of similar widgets by other teachers.
>
> There is some question as to whether the widgets need to be movies  
> and Flash animations so that they can be embedded into PowerPoint  
> (mostly) and Keynote slide presentations. I don't find it to be  
> difficult to simply switch between the slides and a already- 
> launched Revolution application.
>
> Do any of you have similar experience?
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Michael J. Lew
>
> Senior Lecturer
> Department of Pharmacology
> The University of Melbourne
> Parkville 3010
> Victoria
> Australia
>
> Phone +613 8344 8304
>
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> New email address: michaell at unimelb.edu.au
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