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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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Which would YOU prefer?OrWhich would YOU prefer?
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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
[email protected]
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)