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February 7, 2020

'The Point of PowerPoint is to Use All of Its Power' TLC Professional Development Series event today

Submitted by Brian Niehoff

Mick Charney, professor of architecture, will present "The Point of PowerPoint is to Use All of Its Power" from 10-11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, in 4061 College of Business Building. Register to attend today's event.

Charney will discuss how you can optimize the use of PowerPoint in your classes. After this session, you will be able to: critique your own use of PowerPoint through the lens of its inventors' intentions; articulate what differentiates good from bad pedagogical use of PowerPoint; recognize the various types of elaborated media and understand how the brain best processes them; compile a personalized checklist of maxims that will help you tweak PowerPoints to maximize learning gains.

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