Darius Miller is a professor of finance at Southern Methodist University. He discusses his job responsibilities in research, teaching, and service. He has received several teaching awards and has been recognized for his research publications. Miller describes his workspace which includes a standing desk, treadmill, and Mac computer. He discusses software and tools he relies on for teaching including a tablet, screen capture software, online homework problems, and video recording software. Miller provides tips for effective teaching such as carefully reviewing evaluations, preparing thoroughly for each lecture, demonstrating enthusiasm, and giving students respect.

1. Using technology to be effective and
efficient
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3. I’m Darius Miller: This is How I Work
• Current Gig: Caruth Chair in Finance at Southern Methodist
University
• My job is a three legged stool: Research, Teaching, and Service.
• Research is featured in the leading finance, accounting and
economics journals and has received awards such as the Journal of
Financial Economics "All Star Paper Award" for citation impact.
• Has won the Cox MBA Outstanding Teaching award six times (the
highest MBA teaching honor), the Cox Executive MBA Teacher of
the Year, the Presidents Associates Outstanding Faculty Award (the
overall university award for tenured faculty) and was inducted into
SMU’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
• Service: Today!
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4. What’s your workspace set up like?
• 27inch 5k Mac, Uplift 900 Standing Desk , TR800DT
Treadmill

5. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
1. Tablet computer for teaching: Surface Pro 3
– This allows incomplete notes in class
– Less reliance on classroom technology
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6. Option Pricing Example
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7. How not to use PowerPoint
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8. Put Example
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9. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
2. Snagit: Screen capture and mark up
– I’m using it to build this talk in fact!
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10. The Black Scholes Model
• Interestingly, it was rejected the first two times they
submitted it for publication.
• In the same year that they published the article on option
pricing theory (1973), the Chicago Board Options
Exchange opened and provided the perfect testing
ground for the practical implementation of the Black-
Scholes model.
• Within six months of the original publication of the Black-
Scholes formula, it had become so widely used by
traders at the CBOE that Texas Instruments produced a
handheld calculator pre-programmed to produce Black-
Scholes option prices and hedge ratios.
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11. Snag it in use: student questions
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12. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
3. Online algorithmic homework problems:
– Myfinancelab
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14. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
3. Online algorithmic homework problems:
– Efficient: No grading, yet better than giving answers. Good for
large sections
– Gives help without entire solution
– Students have good experiences
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15. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
4. Video Screen Capture Software: Camtasia, Snagit
– Virtual exam reviews (one time set up)
– Video tutorials of common questions
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18. What apps, software, or tools can’t you live
without?
5. Dropbox to synch office, home and classroom files
around the world
6. DayOne: Journaling app to keep a class by class
teaching diary of improvements for next time I teach the
class.
– Did a lecture run long?
– Did a particular example confuse not clarify?
– Was a HW/midterm/final question poorly worded?
7. Smk Link Emerald Presenter
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19. What makes your teaching better than anyone
else?
1. I read my evaluations carefully
2. I over prepare for each lecture, even if it is the 100th
time I’ve done it
– Study beforehand, Improve materials every time
3. I demonstrate that I want to be teaching the class
– I am enthusiastic about the material
– I dress according to business norms
– I show up and start class on time.
– I deliver what I promise
– I don’t change the rules midstream
4. I give students respect
– I am flexible if it is fair, accommodating, but not weak.
– I always say “why” I have a rule or policy.
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20. What other advice would you give
• Find the best teacher in your area, better yet if it is the
class you teach, then go sit in for a semester.
• Decide what topic over the semester you think is the
coolest, most interesting, most surprising and devise the
lecture of the year for that. Have a intro, and body and
and a conclusion.
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21. Teaching is fun if you are
doing it right
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22. • Snag it, camtasia
• My finance lab
• Treadmill
• Dropbox
• Day one
• Clicker
• Dress up, prepare for each lecture each time, behave
like you want to be there and want what’s best for the
students., read your teaching evals, be enthusiastic,
Oxygen mask (best advice), keep a class by class
teaching log of improvements needed next year
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