Adapting Materials for Classroom Presentations

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Adapting Materials for Classroom Presentations

• Terry Arzola
• Instructional Development Specialist RVS LRS
• Austin Community College

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Main Points

• Understand the format of the medium
• Analyze your material
• Gather your tools services
• Adapt your material to the format the audience

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Format

• Teleconferencing is still TVjust fewer
  camerapeople
• YOU are the main source of information, not the
  medium

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Format

• Aspect Ratio

2 x 3 4 x 5 3 x 4 1 x 2.55
Standard slides
Photographs 35mm / 16mm / 8mm
Overhead Transparencies Video
Widescreen Movies HDTV
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Video format
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Video format
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PowerPoint format
Natural Focus Zone
The Kill Zone -about 10 safe title area
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Information Areas

• Place text fields graphics in established
  viewing areas
• Use text and drawing tools to control text
  images that threaten boundaries

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Material Tools

• Review outline simplify main points in advance
• Review your support material
• Simplify charts, tables, diagrams, etc.
• Provide handouts for complex data
• Make use of tools services to make information
  visible readable
• Be creative and simple

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Adapt to Format Audience

• Use tools like PowerPoint, overheads or a web
  site to cue main points
• Give outlines to students
• Provide opportunities for interaction with
  students, especially those at remote site

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Example Charts

• EM Spectrum

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Example Charts
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Example Charts
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Example Tables
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Example Tables
These columnsirrelevant todetermining the
necessary information at this time...
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Example Tables
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Example Tables
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Example A More Visible Table
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Example A More Visible Table
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Example Handouts
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Example Handouts

• Serial Dilution Principle

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Step 2 Place correct amount of stock solution in
container 1
Step 1 Place correct amount of solvent in
containers 2 - 5
____ transferred from container 1 to container 2
____ transferred from container 2 to container 3
____ transferred from container 3 to container 4
____ transferred from container 3 to container 4
____ discarded
1
2
3
4
5
____M
____M
____M
____M
____M
Step 3 Transfer correct amount of solution from
one tube to the next, mixing well after each
transfer.
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Step 2 Place correct amount of stock solution in
container 1
Step 1 Place correct amount of solvent in
containers 2 - 5
5.56 mL
5.0 mL
5.0 mL
5.0 mL
5.0 mL
____ transferred from container 1 to container 2
____ transferred from container 2 to container 3
____ transferred from container 3 to container 4
____ transferred from container 3 to container 4
____ discarded
0.56 mL
0.56 mL
0.56 mL
0.56 mL
0.56 mL
1
2
3
4
5
____M
____M
____M
____M
____M
2.0
0.2
0.02
0.002
0.0002
Step 3 Transfer correct amount of solution from
one tube to the next, mixing well after each
transfer.
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Example Maps
RGC
EVC
RVS
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Example Maps
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Example Photographs
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Example Video Captures
Cladophora, 4x
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Example Video Captures
Cladophora, 40x
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What This Means

• Prepare in advance for the medium
• Use the medium to summarize your points, not
  carry the show
• Use supplemental material to convey detail
  reinforce learning