I have recently had an experience with this, due to a rather unfortunate timing on contrating the flu. I missed the first few days of the 2 classes I teach. The students had substitute instructors during these days, but had a different instructor each day i was out. This sometimes is a very unfortunate dilema due to trying to arrange coverage especially during flu season when so many students and instructors get sick. The students tend to become disengaged right from the start and it is very difficult to pull the class back from this when you happen to be… >>>

I have recently within the last year started performing my lectures without using the powerpoints we are given. I feel that the power points hamper my ability to deliver the subject matter at times due to the way it was organized, since I was not the one who organized it. I have been performing these using lecture, hand written notes on the board, tree diagrams, visual aids, tangible physical parts and pieces. I started using the power point more as a way to summarize everthing i talked and discussed with the students during the lecture, rather than as a crutch… >>>