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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Content of the message Form of the message
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Shorter sentences Pauses & emphasis Repetition & use of
three
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7 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate 4
tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla
extract
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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
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Democracies Have: Pluralism The rule of law Accountability
Non-Democracies have: Fewer participants Arbitrary rule No
accountability
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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
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Terminology Concept & Application Critical & Higher
Order Thinking What is the meaning of spaghetti?
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My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner How I see Lecturing
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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/
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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)