Monday, February 18, 2008

Things I am doing, or What I learned on my Winter vacation

Hello All,

I hope you are well and warm as it is sub zero in Chicago.

Here are some things I have been doing since our session. I am a lecturer, so I need to expand my teachings to other kinds of learners. Our materials are well written with some lecture some guided walk throughs and some individual activities. I am spending more time on the transition from the lecture to the activities.

Additionally, I have created a document called Top 10 things you need to know about.....(what ever class I am teaching). I do not iterate what is in the training manual, but I reinforce the things I have added to class to clarify concepts with which some folks struggle.

And I am using powerpoint to create a Jeopardy game that I will play Friday morning after 4 days of training. This will also reinforce concepts from the past 4 days. Once the game is tested I will post it to the blog.

All the best,

Evan

2 comments:

Kim said...

Hi Evan,

Have you played Jeopardy yet? How did that turn out? I'd love to see how you did it and maybe try it with my topics and group here in Dallas.

Warm regards,
Kim

Mike Dawson said...

I took a class and we played Jeopardy as well. Jeopardy seems to be a popular game to play in learning situations. The particular class actually brought the software to generate an actual Jeopardy game. It was pretty fun. We wagered money for the Jeopardy, Double Jeopardy, and Final Jeopardy questions. In addition, the questions were written very well, which made it very helpful for reinforcing the course content.