Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College.

Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College University of British Columbia Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference Enhancing Student Learning Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College University of British Columbia Okanagan Centre for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference Enhancing Student Learning

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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 If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ~Isaac Newton

Democracies Have: Pluralism The rule of law Accountability Non-Democracies have: Fewer participants Arbitrary rule No accountability

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

Terminology Concept & Application Critical & Higher Order Thinking What is the meaning of spaghetti?

My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner How I see Lecturing

Rosalind Warner [email protected] Okanagan College Institute for Learning and Teaching: http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/ Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/

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 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)

Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College.

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