1. 1. Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College
2. 2. Content of the message Form of the message
3. 3. Form = Effectiveness Speech patterns Imagery Gestures Content = Effectiveness Comparisons Concrete Examples Iceberg Mystery Box
4. 4. Shorter, varied sentences Pauses & emphasis Repetition & use of three
5. 5. 7 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
6. 6. Gestures and body orientations constitute important resources for establishing coherence during lectures.
7. 7. Types of Gestures: Beats (or batons) Pointing Iconic Metaphorical A Picture is NOT Worth a Thousand Words!
8. 8. Content of the message Form of the message
9. 9. 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 Reagan If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac Newton
10. 10. Democracies Have: Pluralism The rule of law Accountability Non-Democracies have: No pluralism No rule of law No accountability
11. 11. 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 Armstrong It is more blessed to give than to receive. ~The Bible
12. 12. Terminology Concept & Application Critical & Higher Order Thinking What is the meaning of spaghetti?
13. 13. What is known, familiar, commonplace, or ordinary What is unknown, strange, uncommon or extraordinary
14. 14. I am Italian I like to be boiled, but not always I can be fresh or dried I am long and stringy Essential Mysteries General: Why are people violent? Specific: Why did Germany invade Russia in 1941? Why didnt they learn from history? Whats for Dinner?
15. 15. My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner How I see Lecturing
16. 16. Rosalind Warner rowarner@okanagan.bc.ca Okanagan College Institute for Learning and Teaching: http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/ Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/
17. 17. 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 discipline Now 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 discipline The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains. Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting (Manchester University Press, 1991)