• AntY@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    At university, I had a lecturer who took this one step further. Instead of a power point, he used a word document that he read word by word.

    • Kornblumenratte@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      legere (lat) to read => lectura (lat) the reading event => lecture (en) => lecturer (en) a person giving/hosting a reading event.

      A lecturer is supposed to read the text of a book to students so that they are able to write it down and obtain a copy of it for themselves.

      Books written by professional scribes are incredible expensive, and this new thing they established in Bologna in 1088 – the so called “universities” offering lectures will be a major breakthrough in the history of mankind to distribute knowledge!

      Good to know some professors still honour the only true way of teaching.

      • trolololol@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Pfff this generation is wasting good expensive sheets of paper when good old oral tradition has worked for thousands of years. Writing was invented only 4000 years ago and still haven’t caught on.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Add to that going back 2-3 slides every 5mins and you get my professor at uni. Watching his classes was actual torture

  • egeres@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The comic strip sounds like someone made a plugin to export obsidian vaults to .pptx

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    My best presentation at university was during a small seminar. It was a 45min talk about 3 papers and how they relate to each other. I procrastinate a lot, so I didn’t really do anything besides reading those papers until the day before my presentation. That day, a friend called for a spontaneous barbecue, so I had just an odd hour to actually prepare slides. I managed 8 slides in total, the rest I just impromptu recalled from memory. People liked it and it was the least effort I put in any talk I held at university.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Honestly, that’s the right way to do it if you really know your stuff.

      The slides are there as a visual aid or backdrop. The “presenter notes” is where all your bulleted items and prompts for recollection go.

      Also, and this is where a lot of people get it wrong, the slide deck is NOT a useful document for distribution. It is specific to both the subject matter and speaker; it’s analogous to sheet music. A video of the presentation (e.g. TED) is far more useful as we’re really talking about a performance. At worst, there should be “references” page in some appendix, with hyperlinks to actual media that folks can digest on their own time.

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’ll never forget the one professor who put up a side of code… And had no idea what the class was about. We spent most of the class reading together with him to try to figure out what the lesson was supposed to be about

    Apparently the guy was one of those crazy low-level guys who can do things I don’t understand but build on top of. Guy just constantly looked bewildered by reality, he belonged in the code world