Friday, June 15, 2012

Killing PowerPoint: Effective Online Lectures Using Canvas Tools


Rebekah Grow from Univ of Utah talked about the potential horrors of PowerPoint. In doing so, she shared a very funny YouTube video which does a lovely job of showing what not to do.



The presenter suggested the following tools in Canvas as potential replacements for flat PowerPoint decks-
- pages - you could do around 16 slides per page, use audio tool to narrate
- kaltura media server
- link to existing resources like YouTube

It seems to me like some of these ideas are addressed technically by using Tegrity, though the pedagogical issue of PowerPoint is important to consider.

She has all the info from the session in an open course located at Utah.intructure.com/courses/49573.  This course is linked in the modules pages.

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