Earlier today I led a workshop for doctoral students in the Teaching & Learning department here on the use of effective visuals in presentations. The 20 or so doc students who participated made for a very engaged audience. Many of them will be giving presentations at the AERA conference this weekend, so they were particularly [...]
Okay, one more post on the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio back in November. I just couldn’t resist this one… Top 10 Tips to Create Smash-the-Mold PowerPoints Ron Berk, The Johns Hopkins University You might have gathered from my past blog posts that I’m into good presentation design. [...]
As I mentioned earlier this month, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the 3rd ESTICT (Engaging Students Through In-Class Technologies) conference hosted by the University of Bath on November 17th. ESTICT is a somewhat informal group of educational … Continue reading →
In a recent tweet, Dan Cohen referred to the slide below as “the worst PowerPoint slide ever.” The slide accompanied a recent New York Times story on poor use of PowerPoint by the US military. The article is cleverly titled “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint,” a reference to the classic Pogo [...]
Welcome to my home page. I’m Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass, 2009). I’m also acting director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt University Department of Mathematics. The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of Vanderbilt University.
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