Presentation: Technology in the Classroom

Posted by Lacy Paschal on Friday, August 27, 2010 in digitalVU, Info.

Derek Bruff, senior lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Teaching, gave a presentation in the August 27 digitalVU meeting on technology in the classroom—useful not only for those who interact with students, but also for those wanting to learn more about interactive and digital friendly presentations.

I think everyone got a little something to take away — whether it was using creative commons licensed photos on flickr, using google moderator to aggregate questions/suggestions, using prezi to make your boring powerpoint come to life, and how strong (and yet simple) visual imagery helps your audience focus on you (the main attraction) and not your slides :)

View his presentation slideshow below

Links of interest

• Compfight – be sure to search with Creative Commons ON
• Creative Commons
• Prezi
• Demo of using prezi for educational purposes
• Visual Thinking Teaching Guides from the Center for Teaching
• Making Better Powerpoint Presentations from the Center for Teaching
• Google Moderator
• Turning Technologies – classroom response systems
• Demetri comedy with flipchart
• thisisindexed.com – Index Cart Humor :)
• Derek’s website

Tags: cft, classroom, clickers, derek bruff, digitalvu, prezi