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Use PowerPoint slides for lectures? Web
pages? some other form of presentation material shown on
screen? This ARQ module should help you ask questions
of students that can show you how to improve your
presentations. The focus of this module is not on the
content of lectures, per se -- it's not about how to test
student learning. Instead, it's about feedback to help
assure that students really can see, hear, and think about
what you're presenting.
Preparation by facilitator:
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Read
this brief chapter of the Flashlight Evaluation
Handbook, create your own survey, and, if at all
possible, use it in a course.
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Make copies of a
Flashlight presentation item bank as a handout, or
arrange for at least half the participants to have
computers with Internet connections and Flashlight
Online accounts so that they can try out the item bank
during the workshop.
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Decide what degree of use of
Flashlight Online is appropriate for your participants.
None? (Then use the paper forms only, and encourage them
to decide how they would administer their own
adaptations: on paper? using some online system?). Or
would you like to help them use Flashlight Online
because the item bank is already in that system? (Then
arrange for some or all participants to have accounts
and an initial workshop in how to use them; make sure
all participating authors have access to the item bank
before the workshop begins. If you don't have the item
bank and the rights to share it with others, contact
flashlight @ tltgroup.org and ask for access to
"Lowering barriers to online discussion" item bank.)
Workshop
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Suggested opening: "In this brief
workshop, let's talk about factors that could keep some,
or all, students in your course from getting the most
from your computer displays during a lecture. Let's
assume for this workshop that the content itself is fine
- the ideas are powerful and clearly expressed. What
else could get in the way?"
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Distribute the handout. "Any of
these issues a possible problem for any of your
students? Do these give you ideas about other such
barriers?"
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Skim the questions and then go through
them again, one by one. Cross out items you would not
use. Add items you need and that aren't yet here. Make
notes for any rewrite you might do. Litmus test
for each item; no matter how many students choose each
item, their answers would help you make decisions ("I'm
doing the right thing," "I need to change and i can see
how.")
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Is this
form something you'd use? not use? Why or why not?"
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[for this workshop, after the workshop
or a second session] Using Flashlight Online 2.0 to
adapt and administer this feedback form: Here is a
demonstration of how to use
an item bank
in Flashlight Online 2.0.)
Feedback on the workshop: Here's a
general purpose eClip we've created on YouTube, with
some suggestions for
how
to gather feedback during and after a workshop such as
this one.
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