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From: t-mccann@puff.cs.wisc.edu (L. I. McCann)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Ph.D.'s and Teaching (Student's
Summary: Taping your lecturing -- they do it here
Message-ID: <1387@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 88 17:18:42 GMT
References: <6511@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <170800004@uiucdcsb>
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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In article <170800004@uiucdcsb>, liberte@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Along this line, I wonder how many teachers have considered making
> video recordings of their presentations.  This would have a number of
> benefits.  Teachers would learn to appreciate how every minute counts.
> They could review the tape to see how it looks from the students perspective.
> Students could replay the tape as a review or a first viewing in case
> the lecture was missed.  
> 
> Dan LaLiberte
> liberte@a.cs.uiuc.edu
> uiucdcs!liberte

When I started teaching sections of our introductory Pascal course, the
department required all first-time instructors to have themselves 
videotaped while lecturing.  (That was two years ago; I don't know if they
still require that it be done or not.)

I'm not certain viewing the tape helped me greatly with my teaching, but
I did learn that I had a really annoying tendancy to tug on my sleeves (I
happened to be wearing a long-sleeved shirt that day).  I have since stuck
to wearing short-sleeved shirts while lecturing.

Lester McCann
mccann@primost.cs.wisc.edu