Spaghetti with(out) the Sauce Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor Political Science, Okanagan College
1. Presentation and Communication in a Learner-Centered
Classroom Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor
Political Science, Okanagan College
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 [email protected] 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)