Lecturing tools. To have knowledge of active learning ideas a selection of activities.

1. The Lecture Tool Kit

2. All about you?
- be personable
- be enthusiastic
- use stories / practice /
humour (?)
- dress for the session?

3. What about the material?
- organize the material into
a coherent structure
- highlight the key points
- include popular culture /
news items
- care about your subject
death by PowerPoint

4. Bad slides don't help
Don't read this slide. There is nothing on this slide of importance.
At this very moment I am trying to make rather interesting point about something
or other.
Are you still reading this.
Have you looked out the window today there is a world of things out there.
Did you know that if you are reading this you are not listening to what I am
discussing.
I might as well have printed this out for you and used a lovely image, you still have
all the information but that way you care.
Look I told you to stop reading this it really is utter drivel.
Hum hum hum lunch time soon. I have some cheese and pickle sandwich's.
I wonder when I can next get coffee.
I hope you will take something away from todays session
Really stop reading this you can read faster than I can speak
Put your arm in the air if your reading this drivel.
Hopefully that made the point.
Tell you what I will shut up and give you a chance to read this.
Or not.

5. A good slide makes a point

6. this slide is intentionally blank
Do you need to use slides at all?

7. Handouts
Use the handouts as learning
tools
-Set questions
-Structure conversations

8. Use The VLE
Before The Session After The Session
What is the VLE for?
Host the materials
Highlight what is was / will be covered
Proved structured deeper reading
Support

9. Sound and Vision
Give Knowledge
Present Feedback
Offer Examples
Mirror the content on
the VLE
*break the session up*

10. Screencastsing
Screencasts can help
demonstrate and
teach
Pre record your material
before the session
Why demonstrate software
live when you can create a
screen cast.
Give Feedback to students
individually or as a generic
group

11. Collect ideas on Padlet Walls

12. Google apps for collaboration
Documents
Slides Spreadsheets
Share files
Make web sites

13. Google apps for collaboration
2) Students can work in
collaborative groups to
answer problems.
3) Tutor comments live
in the session to improve
the answer.
1) Links to open Google
Docs hosted on the VLE

14. Objects as a learning tool
Objects can be used as a
focal point for conversation.
Objects can be used to
demonstrate a point.
Objects can be used to talk
about function.

15. Students
Talking to you
Talking to each other

16. Students
Talking to each other: Ask open-ended questions
Give them problems to solve or questions to
answer or material to analyze from different perspectives.
https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/small-groups-and-discussions/how-get-students-talk-class
Pair Share: ask them to turn
to the student next to them
and discuss the problem or
question you have posed.

17. Students
Talking to each other: Ask open-ended questions
Give them problems to solve or questions to
answer or material to analyze from different perspectives.
https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/small-groups-and-discussions/how-get-students-talk-class
Small Groups: put the class
into groups of three or four
use student response to
collect answers.

18. Technology Enhanced Learning

19. Student Response
Lo Tech
https://goo.gl/5FfQgL
iCARD a low tech way of making lectures more
active
via Dr Neil Cross @theOtherDrX
https://theotherdrx.wordpress.com
Q and A via coloured cards
Hands in the air questioning

20. Student Response

21. Student response
www.socrative.com/

22. Poll Everywhere
Allows live responses
within PowerPoint
iTunes app Android app
https://goo.gl/qphS83 https://goo.gl/Wugb1c

23. Which is the largest organ of the human body?
A: Lungs
B: Brain
C: Liver
D: Skin
Set questions?
Approach
1. Ask students questions live during the
session.
2. Allow them to talk to each other
3. Repoll the students and see if the score
has improved?