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Spaghetti with(out) the SaucePresentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom

Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College

University of British Columbia OkanaganCentre for Teaching and Learning Annual ConferenceEnhancing Student Learning

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Communication

Content of the message

Form of the message

Shorter sentencesPauses &emphasisRepetition & use of threeWhat is different @ the Form?

We shall fight on the seas and oceans,We shall fightin the airWe shall fight on the beaches,We shall fight on the landing grounds,We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,We shall fight in the hills;We shall never surrender. ~Winston Churchill

The Form of the Message mattersThe Bullet List7 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate4 tablespoons unsalted butter1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Ill be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. ~Muhammed Ali

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ~Ronald ReaganIf I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac NewtonContent: Using Metaphors & SimilesDemocracies Have:PluralismThe rule of lawAccountabilityNon-Democracies have:Fewer participantsArbitrary ruleNo accountability

Content: Using Comparisons & Contrasts

Contrasts: Even Better!Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything. ~Joseph Stalin

Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ~Neil ArmstrongIt is more blessed to give than to receive. ~The BibleTerminologyConcept & ApplicationCritical & Higher Order ThinkingTypical Scholarly Approach

What is the meaning of spaghetti?Content: People Learn Concretely

How is this Learner-Centred?My Evolution as a Teacher/LearnerHow I see Lecturing

Rosalind Warner

rowarner@okanagan.bc.ca

Okanagan College Institute for Learning and Teaching:http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/

Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/

Questions? Comments?Over to you (Handout).

List three things that you saw me do or say in this presentation that improved the communication

Write the most complex/long winded or difficult sentence you can think of from your disciplineNow simplify it as much as you can

Convert the following bullet list into a narrative or sequence

Make comparative sentences from each the following

Develop a question that might be a basis for an entire lecture in your disciplineThe lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains.MakingMonstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting (Manchester University Press, 1991)