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Effective Use of Teaching Aids: Take From DCU

This document provides guidance on effective use of teaching aids. It discusses that teaching aids can reinforce and help students visualize concepts, engage multiple learning styles, and increase retention rates. Specific teaching aids covered include white/blackboards, overhead projectors, data projectors, flipcharts, audio/video tapes. For each aid, advantages and disadvantages are outlined along with tips for preparation and use. The overall message is that teaching aids can enhance learning when used properly to engage students and reinforce key points.

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Effective Use of Teaching Aids: Take From DCU

This document provides guidance on effective use of teaching aids. It discusses that teaching aids can reinforce and help students visualize concepts, engage multiple learning styles, and increase retention rates. Specific teaching aids covered include white/blackboards, overhead projectors, data projectors, flipcharts, audio/video tapes. For each aid, advantages and disadvantages are outlined along with tips for preparation and use. The overall message is that teaching aids can enhance learning when used properly to engage students and reinforce key points.

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Effective Use of Teaching Aids

Take from DCU: http://www.dcu.ie

Why use teaching aids?


Teaching aids are useful to:
reinforce what you are saying, ensure that your point is understood, signal what is important/essential, enable students to visualise or experience something that is impractical to see or do in real life, engage students other senses in the learning process, facilitate different learning styles.

We Learn and Retain:

10% of what we READ

20% of what we HEAR


30% of what we SEE 50% of what we HEAR and SEE Higher levels of retention can be achieved through active involvement in learning.
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WHITE-/BLACKBOARD
Advantages
No advanced preparation required, except when displaying a complex table/chart/ diagram. Technology is not dependent on electricity or other possible glitches. Can be used by students for problem-solving, etc.

Disadvantages
Time-consuming if you have a lot to write. Handwriting may be difficult to read (legibility, size, glare, etc.). Turn your back on audience. Cleaning the board (chalk dust, permanent marker, etc.) Cant go back to something youve erased.

WHITE-/BLACKBOARD
TIPS
Get to the lecture hall early to make sure that the board has been cleaned. Bring your own chalk/markers and eraser. If you have problems with keeping your writing level, draw horizontal lines in advance using a pencil and metre stick. Draw complex diagrams, charts, etc. in advance and cover with a piece of newsprint until needed.

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Advantages
Allows you to prepare all your slides in advance. Particularly suited for complex diagrams, charts and illustrations. Can build up information point-by-point through the use of overlays. Dont have to turn your back on the audience.

Disadvantages
A blown bulb or power failure can spoil all your hard work. Image quality can also be a problem. Can be disorienting to manipulate transparencies on projector plate.

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Preparing Transparencies
By hand, or Computer application (eg. MS PowerPoint, MS Word, HTML documents) Printing - colour or B/W Printer (laser or inkjet), or Photocopier

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Selecting Text
Avoid overcrowding Avoid continuous prose Bullet or numbered points preferred KILLS
Keep It Legible, Lean and Simple

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Keep words to a minimum:
Please observe the rules prohibiting the combustion of vegetable material and the exhalation of noxious fumes in this auditorium.

NO SMOKING

OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
1st best Qtr. 3rd Qtr. Tables areQtr. 2ndavoided: East West North 20.4 30.6 45.9 27.4 38.6 46.8 90.0 34.7 45.0 4th Qtr. 20.4 31.5 43.9

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OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Use Charts/Graphs instead:
200 150 100 50 0 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr North West East

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OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Choosing a Font
Size - minimum 20pt (5mm high)

Examples:
14 pt Tahoma

20 pt Tahoma

28 pt Tahoma

36 pt Tahoma
Sans serif fonts preferred Times New Roman Arial Comic Sans
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OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Style Notes for Transparencies
Allow a margin of 5 cm (2) all round. Avoid TOO MUCH UPPERCASE TEXT For emphasis, use bold or underlining instead of italics Keep titles systematic and consistent Justification - left or centred Avoid light text on dark background.

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OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Beforehand
Get to the room early to make sure the OHP is working. Check the aim and focus. Walk to the back of the room to see whether the smallest print is readable. Relax (if possible).

During the Lecture


Keep used and unused slides in separate piles. Cover the slide with a piece of cardboard and slide it down to reveal text as you go. Use a pen on the OHP glass rather than pointing to the screen.
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DATA PROJECTOR (portable)

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Other Media FLIPCHART


When to USE:
if electricity is unavailable, to enable students to illustrate group reports, to provide a written record of points made by students.

TIPS
Check the room and equipment beforehand. Get your own pad of newsprint. Write out important pages in advance. Dont put too much on a page. Carry a collection of felt-tip pens and check that they havent dried out.

Bring along some Blutack.


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Other Media AUDIO TAPES or CDs


When to USE:
Particularly suited for language learning, media studies, English literature, etc. Valuable when referring to recorded historical events (e.g. Martin Luther Kings I have a dream speech). Background music can also be played before class starts and during group activities.

TIPS
Check the room and equipment beforehand. Can it be heard from the back of the room? Find the right spot on the tape/CD and queue it up in advance. Dont play more than a few minutes of audio at one time. Break up longer clips into segments, interspersed with discussion or other activities.
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Other Media VIDEO TAPES or DVDs


When to USE:
Adds a dimension not available through audio alone - helps students to visualise. Essential when illustrating things that are impractical to do in real life. Particularly suited for language learning, media studies, engineering, etc. Valuable when referring to recorded historical events.

TIPS
Same as for CDs/audio tapes Check equipment beforehand. Can images be seen from the back of the room? Queue up the tape in advance. Break viewing into short segments, interspersed with discussion or activities.

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