Perhaps you’re tired of the clip art you use in your presentations, or better yet, you feel energized about reducing the bullets, text and content on your slides and want to revamp your presentations and make them more focused and effective. Perhaps you just want to spruce up your blog posts. You need some...
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Many of us recently enjoyed listening to David Cupp, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Cupp worked in TV and Radio for over 25 years and teaches voice and diction (among other classes) at UNC. He instructed us on how to more naturally converse with our audiences when they’re not present...
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Looking for help writing case studies or role plays? The best guidance I have found so far is short and helpful and comes from an article by Turning Point (not to be confused with the classroom polling software we use), a program at the University of Washington in Seattle. The article is called Collaborative...
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I made a presentation today to the SOGroovy photo club on framing and composing principles in photography. In the process–and courtesy of my fellow SOGers–I (re)learned a couple key teaching lessons: Relate the material to your audience’s experiences. Angela W. was bold enough to speak out and mentioned how similar some of these design...
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In case you missed our TurningPoint Basics brownbag, I assembled some key pieces of info here…. 1) There’s more to success with TP than just knowing the tools. Please come see us or your colleagues for ideas on how to use TP to increase class participation, engagement and learning. 2) Cool TurningPoint Tip! Wanna...
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