Instructional Planning & Design

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R Lee Viar IV

PowerPoint Pitfalls

I attended a training conference with an excellent PowerPoint Presentation. However, the problem is that presentation lasted over 90 minutes and consisted of over 50 slides. It was more like a motion picture than a PPT presentation. All of the attendees were totally overwhelmed by the end, including myself.

R Lee Viar IV

Guest Speaker Pitfalls

I have had some wonderful experiences with guest speakers over the years. However, I had one experience where the guest speaker decided to totally deviate from the topic and actually created extra work for me later by trying to explain some of the issues and topics he brought up that really was not in line with what the textbook and ethical principles went by. I still use guest speakers, but I am always a little nervous.

Margie Coleman

Best of the bunch!

What has been your most successful delivery method in instruction and why?

Margie Coleman

Class Preparation

How much time do you all average to prepare for a two and four hour block class.

Patricia Warholic

using field trips as a way to introduce career

by having students go on a field trip to experience what the course is about with help greatly in knowledge and understanding of topics

Hayley Cluever

alternative exams

This method works quite well in one of my courses where there is a frequent need for outside of class testing.

Hayley Cluever

pretesting students

I really like the idea of pre-testing the students' knowledge bases. This had not occurred to me before and in hindsight it would've been quite helpful when my students did become lost.

Hayley Cluever

powerpoints

I completed a Microsoft Office course offered by our school last quarter. I gained a great deal of powerpoint skill from it. Of course I'll be a work in progress, but I would recommend add'l powerpoint-specific training to anyone as you can get alot out of it.

Hayley Cluever

understanding your personality

At our school all employees are encouraged to complete a short training that involves an intensive assessment of personality. The training is fun and people learn quite a bit about who they are how they relate to others.

Jason Kaminkow

appealing to students in different ways

it is very easy to loose focus when learning anything. it is important to keep things exciting in the classroom. we need to keep the students interested in learning.

Jason Kaminkow

feild trips

Feild trip are a wonderful way to keep the excitment level high in the students. it can become boring learning in the same envirement day in day out. field trips are great to spice things up.

Lynnette Smith