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The efficient academic google group has a thread on a really interesting problem. Any hack addressing this has a high chance of saving several hours per week for those of you who teach.
Given lecture material has three components:
- Slides for digital projection (preferable PDFs rather than PowerPoint or Keynote)
- Lecture notes to support what I need to say and remember
- Lecture handout
I regularly update all three, but I am finding keeping all three in sync to be a bit tedious.
I’m not sure what the solution is, but what I am visualising is some sort of single document, where you write the lecture handout. I could then update this with new information between presenting the lecture.
If you have a solution, drop by and post it there (or here!).
About the author: Jose Quesada wanted to be a matador, an acrobatic pilot, or a painter, but found those activities not demanding enough, so he chose an academic career. He secretly hopes to orchestrate a system that produces papers without any human intervention (particularly, his).
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Quesada J. Synchronous lecture materials. How?. Academic Productivity. 2008. Available at: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/synchronous-lecture-materials-how/. Accessed July 24, 2008.
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February 24th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Docbook + XSLT + PDF Creator with some Python glue.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:13 am
LaTeX is pretty ideal for this sort of thing. Take a look at the beamer package; it contains several methods to help with slides plus auxiliary content.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
my school has started making slides on http://www.voicethread.com which allows for easy sychronization and collaboration on lectures
April 14th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Maybe this is not what you are looking for exactly, but you may find it interesting:
I’m trying to teach a data mining course by using a blog to post lecture notes and assignments, to live stream the lectures force students to post their assignments on a weekly basis.
Here is the link: http://dataminingcourse.wordpress.com (well, apologies, it’s in greek
and here you can find more info in english: http://dataminingntua.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/acoursebyblog/
Blogging is not synchronous by its strict definition, by it’s kind-of direct and dynamic for sure, right?
P.S: Just found your blog, pretty amazed that found something so straight to the point, keep up