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Oral Presentations, the Internet, and Blackboard
2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
Gema Pérez-Sánchez
College of Arts & Sciences, Foreign Languages and LiteraturesHow can we encourage students to convey information orally to their classmates in a concise yet effective manner that helps students learn new material through a personal connection to it? This workshop will explore different ways of productively enhancing student oral presentations through the use of the World Wide Web and Blackboard. Although most of the examples will be taken from the context of language and literature classes, we will discuss how to extrapolate these oral presentation techniques to other disciplines. In particular, we will discuss how to teach students to develop their creative agency by giving them the opportunity to supplement the syllabus with an oral presentation on a topic of their choice, within parameters carefully crafted by the professor; to have students use technology to teach the class in a controlled fashion; and to encourage those students listening to the presentation to participate actively in making it a successful, collective learning event.
Friday, October 7, 2005
12:20 PM - 1:10 PM
Cuban Heritage Collection Conference Room
Richter Library, 2nd Floor
