Web Browsers as Presentation Tools
Christopher Haynes
IUB Computer Science Department
Presentation to the IU Faculty Development Program on Learning Technologies
January 26, 1996
Advantages of projecting lecture notes
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
- Time is not wasted copying notes on the board.
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
- Time is not wasted copying notes on the board.
- Notes can be made available to the students in just the form
presented in class at no cost (other than laser printing!).
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
- Time is not wasted copying notes on the board.
- Notes can be made available to the students in just the form
presented in class at no cost (other than laser printing!).
- Notes can include web links.
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
- Time is not wasted copying notes on the board.
- Notes can be made available to the students in just the form
presented in class at no cost (other than laser printing!).
- Notes can include web links.
- Notes are accessible remotely for distance education.
Advantages of projecting lecture notes - Students can think about what you are saying rather than copy
material.
- Time is not wasted copying notes on the board.
- Notes can be made available to the students in just the form
presented in class at no cost (other than laser printing!).
- Notes can include web links.
- Notes are accessible remotely for distance education.
- Your notes are easy for you to read!
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes - Room lights must be dim, encouraging dullness.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes - Room lights must be dim, encouraging dullness.
- Presentation speed may easily exceed comprehension speed.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes - Room lights must be dim, encouraging dullness.
- Presentation speed may easily exceed comprehension speed.
- Preparation time is somewhat greater than hand-written notes
(but need not be much more).
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes - Room lights must be dim, encouraging dullness.
- Presentation speed may easily exceed comprehension speed.
- Preparation time is somewhat greater than hand-written notes
(but need not be much more).
- Anything but simple text is very time consuming, or impossible
(though better software tools are coming soon).
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
- Copying notes is valuable in ways that are not well understood.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
- Copying notes is valuable in ways that are not well understood.
- Passivity of body leads to passivity of mind.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
- Copying notes is valuable in ways that are not well understood.
- Passivity of body leads to passivity of mind.
- Combination of on-line and blackboard is usually best.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
- Copying notes is valuable in ways that are not well understood.
- Passivity of body leads to passivity of mind.
- Combination of on-line and blackboard is usually best.
- Students expect everything in lecture to be in notes.
Disadvantages of projecting lecture notes -- continued - If notes are made available to students, some will conclude that
they do not need to come to class!
- Copying notes is valuable in ways that are not well understood.
- Passivity of body leads to passivity of mind.
- Combination of on-line and blackboard is usually best.
- Students expect everything in lecture to be in notes.
- Requires decent projection technology in the classroom.
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
- Software is available that allows summary versions to be
constructed automatically. For example, see the
summary of this demo .
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
- Software is available that allows summary versions to be
constructed automatically. For example, see the
summary of this demo .
- This software is based on a markup that is compatible with
LaTeX, allowing high quality typesetting of the same text. For example,
see the source
file for this demo .
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
- Software is available that allows summary versions to be
constructed automatically. For example, see the
summary of this demo .
- This software is based on a markup that is compatible with
LaTeX, allowing high quality typesetting of the same text. For example,
see the source
file for this demo .
- It is straightforward to define styles, such as the
slide style used for this presentation.
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
- Software is available that allows summary versions to be
constructed automatically. For example, see the
summary of this demo .
- This software is based on a markup that is compatible with
LaTeX, allowing high quality typesetting of the same text. For example,
see the source
file for this demo .
- It is straightforward to define styles, such as the
slide style used for this presentation.
- The software is called
htx ,
by Richard Salter . It is currently in alpha+ release.
Advantages of using the Web as a class lecture note
presentation tool - Browser software is free and universal (students all have access
to it).
- Software is available that allows summary versions to be
constructed automatically. For example, see the
summary of this demo .
- This software is based on a markup that is compatible with
LaTeX, allowing high quality typesetting of the same text. For example,
see the source
file for this demo .
- It is straightforward to define styles, such as the
slide style used for this presentation.
- The software is called
htx ,
by Richard Salter . It is currently in alpha+ release.
- I used this in my
Introduction to
Computing class last semester.
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