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From: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 14 Mar 88 19:45:32 GMT
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In article <934@aucs.UUCP> 870158a@aucs.UUCP (Benjamin Armstrong) writes:
>Even in lectures where the degree of interaction is very low, a good lecturer
>(and I have had a few) can present the material in a much more accessible form
>than in the texts which accompany the course.  

This quarter I'm taking SPE105 (Introductory Public Speaking).  In the very
first chapter of the text there is a discuession on the way people "model"
a public speaker's role.  In one model the speaker/listener relationship
is one way, the speaker speaks and the listener listens.  The other model
includes a feedback channel, where the speaker can sense the attitude of the
audience and adjust their presentation accordingly.  Example: If a number of
students start yawning, it is obvious that the speaker needs to increase
the audiances participation, via one of several methods.

There is also feedback of a less immediate sort, how many students flunk
the course.  

You also get into the question of how do we decide who these super lecturers
are, so that they can write the texts that is.

                                  -Wayne Johnson