Podcasting Lectures
Today I attended Atindra Sen’s Economics class, at his request, rather than Meg Streepey’s to record it for a podcast.
Several thoughts struck me:
- Of course, ‘technology’ struck back and for the life of me, I could get the projector to display the screen of his Dell laptop.
- As a result I missed recording the first few minutes of the lecture and so it was hard to ‘place’ it. I realised that rule #1 would be :
- have someone else record your lecture. Don’t try doing it yourself. I am going to have to follow my own advice when I do my CS182 next year.
- Atindra took a wee bit of time to warm up and then he got going. I thought that he really engaged the students. I know that I was engaged. Certainly a good model for me of how to teach a lecture — don’t sit behind a podium , come out and interact with the masses.
- He scribbled some diagrams on the board and wrote a list. If you weren’t in the class or paying attention and taking notes you’d miss these. Plus I forgot my digital camera so I couldn’t take any pictures as I did with Meg (and anyway Meg S is way better looking :-)
- At one point he wrote the word “EQUITY” (in capitals) on the board, but he referred to “this” as he wrote it. Listeners to the podcast who were present will remember what “this” refers to; those not present will wonder what he’s talking about. Thought #2:
- Wouldn’t it be cool if students could interact with the podcast?
Posted by markp at April 18, 2006 06:10 PM