Spaghetti without the sauce
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- 1. Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered
Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor
Political Science, Okanagan College
- 2. Content of the message Form of the message
- 3. Form = Effectiveness Speech patterns Imagery Gestures
Content = Effectiveness Comparisons Concrete Examples Iceberg
Mystery Box
- 4. Shorter, varied sentences Pauses & emphasis Repetition
& use of three
- 5. 7 ounces finely chopped bittersweet or semisweet chocolate 4
tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla
extract
- 6. Gestures and body orientations constitute important
resources for establishing coherence during lectures.
- 7. Types of Gestures: Beats (or batons) Pointing Iconic
Metaphorical A Picture is NOT Worth a Thousand Words!
- 8. Content of the message Form of the message
- 9. 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
- 10. Democracies Have: Pluralism The rule of law Accountability
Non-Democracies have: No pluralism No rule of law No
accountability
- 11. 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
- 12. Terminology Concept & Application Critical & Higher
Order Thinking What is the meaning of spaghetti?
- 13. What is known, familiar, commonplace, or ordinary What is
unknown, strange, uncommon or extraordinary
- 14. I am Italian I like to be boiled, but not always I can be
fresh or dried I am long and stringy Essential Mysteries General:
Why are people violent? Specific: Why did Germany invade Russia in
1941? Why didnt they learn from history? Whats for Dinner?
- 15. My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner How I see Lecturing
- 16. Rosalind Warner rowarner@okanagan.bc.ca Okanagan College
Institute for Learning and Teaching: http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/
Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/
- 17. 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)