An updated version of my English Language Lesson and PowerPoint Slide Design tips made especially for the language department of Bolzano University, Italy.
If you want to skip straight to the PowerPoint tips - go to slide number 48.
Death By PowerPoint - (and How To Avoid It)Seth dickens
These are the slides I used for my presentation at the IATEFL Rome BESIG summer mini-conference.
They're basically an updated version of my last slides discussing how to make a good PowerPoint.
It includes a lesson I use with my EFL students for the first 49 slides. Skip to slide 50 if you just want the advice.
The 10 key things i've learnt about IWBs - Interactive White BoardsSeth dickens
These are the slides that accomanied my talk at May 2012's IATEFL COnference in Istanbul. The title was "Inter@ctive White Board / Elephant? 10 practical lessons I learned from training 200+ language teachers to use IWBs." And this was the blurb: "IWBs are trumpeted as the next big thing in education, but not everyone is convinced. This workshop draws on 5 years’ practical experience training language teachers to creatively use IWBs. With hands-‐on activities, we’ll examine whether IWBs are right for you & your institution. Bring your laptop and join in!"
Simply "digitising" lessons won't change their quality or effectiveness at all. Instead, We need to adopt a more student-centred approach to our teaching methodology and then apply whatever digital tools suits our needs. One methodology that might achieve this is Project Based Learning. his presentation discusses four key tool categories to allow students to create interesting "final products" for their projects: a note-taking app, an audio recording app, a video editing app and an webpage annotation app.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
Death By PowerPoint - (and How To Avoid It)Seth dickens
These are the slides I used for my presentation at the IATEFL Rome BESIG summer mini-conference.
They're basically an updated version of my last slides discussing how to make a good PowerPoint.
It includes a lesson I use with my EFL students for the first 49 slides. Skip to slide 50 if you just want the advice.
The 10 key things i've learnt about IWBs - Interactive White BoardsSeth dickens
These are the slides that accomanied my talk at May 2012's IATEFL COnference in Istanbul. The title was "Inter@ctive White Board / Elephant? 10 practical lessons I learned from training 200+ language teachers to use IWBs." And this was the blurb: "IWBs are trumpeted as the next big thing in education, but not everyone is convinced. This workshop draws on 5 years’ practical experience training language teachers to creatively use IWBs. With hands-‐on activities, we’ll examine whether IWBs are right for you & your institution. Bring your laptop and join in!"
Simply "digitising" lessons won't change their quality or effectiveness at all. Instead, We need to adopt a more student-centred approach to our teaching methodology and then apply whatever digital tools suits our needs. One methodology that might achieve this is Project Based Learning. his presentation discusses four key tool categories to allow students to create interesting "final products" for their projects: a note-taking app, an audio recording app, a video editing app and an webpage annotation app.
This document discusses how emojis, emoticons, and text speak can be used to teach students. It provides background on the origins of emoticons in 1982 as ways to convey tone and feelings in text communications. It then suggests that with text speak and emojis, students can translate, decode, summarize, play with language, and add emotion to language. A number of websites and apps that can be used for emoji-related activities, lessons, and discussions are also listed.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, promising self-driving cars, medical breakthroughs, and new ways of working. But how do you separate hype from reality? How can your company apply AI to solve real business problems?
Here’s what AI learnings your business should keep in mind for 2017.
These slides discuss how language teachers (MFL) can integrate podcasting into their classes.
It's divided roughly into three parts: defining podcasting, listening to podcasts and creating podcasts.
If you would like this, or any other of my seminars delivered in person at your school, please feel free to contact me for a quote.
Twitter: @sethdickens
email: i n f o (a t) d i g i t a l a n g . c o m
The final presentation in a series of 3 to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger.
This presentation goes into a few of the other hints, tips and tricks a blogger or an edublogger needs to make their blog "complete." From filling in a profile to EFL teachers and learners to learn the comments features of blogger.
The first in a series of three presentations to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger.
Blogging is a great way to allow your students a little space to be creative, talk to a "real" audience and connect with other learners. These slides will help you and your students get started.
This is a lesson I use with my students to teach them the basics of good presentation design.
1) They watch the presentation about 3 things that have changed me / made me who I am,
2) We then discuss how I made the presentation and a few basics of good PowerPoint slide design,
3) Then I ask the students to create their own quality presentation about three things that have changed them / made them who they are.
Normally, I get some pretty amazing / inspiring presentations back from the students.
The document discusses how commenting on blogs helps engagement with learning and connecting with others. It encourages leaving comments on colleagues' blogs that engage with the writer through questions or relevant links. It also demonstrates how to add hyperlinks to text using basic HTML tags.
This is the presentation I gave (will give!) to the teachers and teacher-trainers at the Learning Technologies and Young Learners conference in Milan on 25 March 2009.
The conference was organised by The British Council and IATEFL (the International Association for Teaching English as as Foreign Language.)
This EFL / CLIL lesson was written to encourage my students to talk about, instead of just read about philosophy.
It contains three short situations that the students stop and discuss before reaching a final conclusion. hope you enjoy it!
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Leveraging Generative AI to Drive Nonprofit InnovationTechSoup
In this webinar, participants learned how to utilize Generative AI to streamline operations and elevate member engagement. Amazon Web Service experts provided a customer specific use cases and dived into low/no-code tools that are quick and easy to deploy through Amazon Web Service (AWS.)
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
These slides discuss how language teachers (MFL) can integrate podcasting into their classes.
It's divided roughly into three parts: defining podcasting, listening to podcasts and creating podcasts.
If you would like this, or any other of my seminars delivered in person at your school, please feel free to contact me for a quote.
Twitter: @sethdickens
email: i n f o (a t) d i g i t a l a n g . c o m
The final presentation in a series of 3 to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger.
This presentation goes into a few of the other hints, tips and tricks a blogger or an edublogger needs to make their blog "complete." From filling in a profile to EFL teachers and learners to learn the comments features of blogger.
The first in a series of three presentations to help EFL students and teachers learn how to blog and how to use blogger.
Blogging is a great way to allow your students a little space to be creative, talk to a "real" audience and connect with other learners. These slides will help you and your students get started.
This is a lesson I use with my students to teach them the basics of good presentation design.
1) They watch the presentation about 3 things that have changed me / made me who I am,
2) We then discuss how I made the presentation and a few basics of good PowerPoint slide design,
3) Then I ask the students to create their own quality presentation about three things that have changed them / made them who they are.
Normally, I get some pretty amazing / inspiring presentations back from the students.
The document discusses how commenting on blogs helps engagement with learning and connecting with others. It encourages leaving comments on colleagues' blogs that engage with the writer through questions or relevant links. It also demonstrates how to add hyperlinks to text using basic HTML tags.
This is the presentation I gave (will give!) to the teachers and teacher-trainers at the Learning Technologies and Young Learners conference in Milan on 25 March 2009.
The conference was organised by The British Council and IATEFL (the International Association for Teaching English as as Foreign Language.)
This EFL / CLIL lesson was written to encourage my students to talk about, instead of just read about philosophy.
It contains three short situations that the students stop and discuss before reaching a final conclusion. hope you enjoy it!
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
"Learn about all the ways Walmart supports nonprofit organizations.
You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
The webinar may also give some examples on how nonprofits can best leverage Walmart Business+.
The event will cover the following::
Walmart Business + (https://business.walmart.com/plus) is a new shopping experience for nonprofits, schools, and local business customers that connects an exclusive online shopping experience to stores. Benefits include free delivery and shipping, a 'Spend Analytics” feature, special discounts, deals and tax-exempt shopping.
Special TechSoup offer for a free 180 days membership, and up to $150 in discounts on eligible orders.
Spark Good (walmart.com/sparkgood) is a charitable platform that enables nonprofits to receive donations directly from customers and associates.
Answers about how you can do more with Walmart!"
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Leveraging Generative AI to Drive Nonprofit InnovationTechSoup
In this webinar, participants learned how to utilize Generative AI to streamline operations and elevate member engagement. Amazon Web Service experts provided a customer specific use cases and dived into low/no-code tools that are quick and easy to deploy through Amazon Web Service (AWS.)
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
আমাদের সবার জন্য খুব খুব গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি বই ..বিসিএস, ব্যাংক, ইউনিভার্সিটি ভর্তি ও যে কোন প্রতিযোগিতা মূলক পরীক্ষার জন্য এর খুব ইম্পরট্যান্ট একটি বিষয় ...তাছাড়া বাংলাদেশের সাম্প্রতিক যে কোন ডাটা বা তথ্য এই বইতে পাবেন ...
তাই একজন নাগরিক হিসাবে এই তথ্য গুলো আপনার জানা প্রয়োজন ...।
বিসিএস ও ব্যাংক এর লিখিত পরীক্ষা ...+এছাড়া মাধ্যমিক ও উচ্চমাধ্যমিকের স্টুডেন্টদের জন্য অনেক কাজে আসবে ...
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
5. There’s a Yale professor, Edward Tufte, who
wrote a whole book about how the
presentations we give are fundamentally
flawed. He explains how the mass of facts,
figures and information up on the screen
actually detract attention from what the
presenter is saying.
He goes on to mention many of the worst faults
of presenters who use PowerPoint.
Ummmmmm……
Faults like reading out every single word on
their ever so verbose slides.
50. Places I Have Taught
School Country City
The English Language United Kingdom Brighton
Centre
Australian College of English Australia Sydney
East Coast College of Brisbane Australia
English
Melbourne Language Melbourne Australia
College
CLM-Bell Trento Italy
Artigianelli Trento Italy
I.I. Martino Martini Mezzolombardo Italy
51. People Who Have Influenced Me
Name Country Information
Frank Colombia Tropical Fruit
Sonny Taiwan Warm Soya Milk
Alessandro Argentina Yerba (Herb Drink)
Andrei Czech Republic Rye Bread
Jin-Ho Korea Kimchee
Tsering Tibet Torture
Gyaltsen Tibet Prison
68. People Who Have Influenced Me
Name Country Information
Frank Colombia Tropical Fruit
Sonny Taiwan Warm Soya
Milk
Alessandro Argentina Yerba (Herb
Drink)
Andrei Czech Rye Bread
Republic
Jin-Ho Korea Kimchee
Tsering Tibet Torture
Gyaltsen Tibet Prison
69. Places I Have Taught
School Country City
The English United Kingdom Brighton
Language Centre
Australian College Australia Sydney
of English
East Coast College Brisbane Australia
of English
Melbourne Melbourne Australia
Language College
CLM-Bell Trento Italy
Artigianelli Trento Italy
I.I. Martino Mezzolombardo Italy
Martini
70. Places I Have Taught
School Country City
The English Language United Kingdom Brighton
Centre
Australian College of English Australia Sydney
East Coast College of Brisbane Australia
English
Melbourne Language Melbourne Australia
College
CLM-Bell Trento Italy
Artigianelli Trento Italy
I.I. Martino Martini Mezzolombardo Italy
71. People Who Have Influenced Me
Name Country Information
Frank Colombia Tropical Fruit
Sonny Taiwan Warm Soya Milk
Alessandro Argentina Yerba (Herb Drink)
Andrei Czech Republic Rye Bread
Jin-Ho Korea Kimchee
Tsering Tibet Torture
Gyaltsen Tibet Prison
140. Sources & Thanks
Alvin Trusty’s “How To Create A Great PowerPoint”
http://tinyurl.com/AlvinVideo
Chris Hill’s “Free Photos”
http://tinyurl.com/ChrisHillBlog