Teaching in a Smart Classroom:

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Teaching in a Smart Classroom What Is To Be
Done? Some thoughts by Bob Wood, Department of
Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
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Computers are as much a part of the classroom as
are blackboards.
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Five Things I Do

• Make PowerPoint Presentations
• Use Discipline-Specific Software
• Demonstrate and Teach Software Use
• Access and Use Course Website
• Draw on Departmental Web-Enhanced Curriculum

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PowerPoint Some Lessons from Experience

• PP presentations can be deadly
• They should be aids for discussion
• Visual imagery reinforces attention and learning
• Putting presentations online can relieve
  students from compulsive note-taking
• They have largely freed me from class notes

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Did the use of powerpoint presentations in class
make the class sessions more interesting? Did
the use of powerpoint presentations enhance your
learning in this course?
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Using Discipline-Specific Software
The MicroCase program is available on the campus
network
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Demonstrating and Teaching Software Use
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Using Course Websites
Check out over 30 course websites in sociology,
anthropology and criminal justice
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Using the Departments Web-Enhanced Curriculum
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Teaching in a Smart Classroom Data from One
Instructors Experience contains an analysis of
student response data in two smart classroom
courses in the fall semester 2000. It is
available at http//www.camden.rutgers.edu/wood/
smartclassroompaper-web.doc