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Corony
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From: Mylene J. Catel [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 October 2011 17:52
To: Corony Edwards
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
I am not sure why everybody is so upset...tools are being upgraded by
other tools every second. But I know one thing. I will soon see a message
that will read "teachers are now totally obsolete and replaced by robots".
Best,
MC
Corony Edwards
> Does anyone remember the ‘revelation technique’, made possible once
> post-it note technology had caught up with OHP’s and you could prepare a
> complicated acetate, cunningly concealed with bits of post-it, to be
> peeled off one by one at the requisite moments – a kind of OHP version
> of Salome’s dance of the seven veils? So much more tantalising than
> ‘fly-in’ objects on a powerpoint slide, accompanied by an annoying
> sound effect.
>
> Corony
>
> Corony Edwards
> Director of Educational Development
> Centre for Learning and Academic Development
> University of Birmingham
> Edgbaston
> Birmingham B15 2TT
> 0121 414 7316
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>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Hilsdon
> Sent: 21 October 2011 17:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> Working at Blackburn College in the 1980s I was delighted (at first) to
> discover that we had an epidiascope - a huge and dangerously heavy thing
> which could project an image of a text book or diagram onto a large
> screen, thus (I hoped) cutting down the need for photocopying and making
> it easier for me to show illustrations and for students to take notes etc
> ... the problem, I soon discovered, was that the bulb generated so much
> heat that text book pages would quickly turn brown and crispy under its
> unrelenting glare – and photographs curled irreparably ... ... those
> were the days .. and teaching had more of an olfactory nature too!
>
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cooper, Alison
> Sent: 21 October 2011 17:18
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> I was enthusiastically teaching a group of students, and wanting to be at
> eye level, in the absence of a chair I used the edge of an OHP which was
> on the floor as a ‘stool’ . The sound across the classroom of cracking
> glass as the lens broke from top to bottom could not be disguised, and
> after the laughter had died down, I had to go and confess.
>
> Ali
>
> Ali Cooper
> Teaching and Curriculum Development Adviser/ Director of Studies for
> Certificate in Academic Practice (CAP)
> Organisation and Educational Development (OED), ASH House, Lancaster
> University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YN
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> tel:
> (01524 5)93441
> Effective Teaching and Curriculum Development website:
> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/celt/celtweb/
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Julie Hall
> Sent: 21 October 2011 16:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> .... and when I first went into a room with a white board I used the OHP
> pens to write my name in large capitals on it. Despite the strongest
> chemicals it shimmered there for years-' JULIE HALL' just below the
> surface annoying everyone!
> Thanks for starting this phil
> Julie
> Director Learning and Teaching Enhancement
> University of Roehampton
> Co-chair SEDA
>
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> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Fri Oct 21 16:23:32 2011
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
> I remember the distinction between those people who had the ‘posh’
> OHTs with card frames and those who just had the bare sheets. That and
> hording packs of the pens that wrote on the sheets, come to think of it, I
> may have a pack tucked away somewhere – just in case!
>
> Sue
>
> Sue Gill
> Senior Development Officer
> QuILT
> Newcastle University
>
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Armstrong, Jill
> Sent: 21 October 2011 2:14 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> I'm just wondering where all the acetates have gone and have librarians
> finished classifying them all....
> Jill
>
> (PS the government of the time alone made 40 tons of slides to secure
> their training for the literacy and numeracy hours in schools... )
>
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> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Outram
> [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 October 2011 14:06
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
> I’m a stick and sand person myself
>
>
> Steve
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On
> Behalf Of David Ross
> Sent: 21 October 2011 13:51
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> What about individual slates and chalk - a forerunner of the tablet pc?
>
> David
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> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth M H Pilkington
> [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 October 2011 13:49
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
> Ah, How I remember the banda machine…
> Beloved friend… beloved foe…
> Ruth
>
> Sigh
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On
> Behalf Of John Hilsdon
> Sent: 21 October 2011 12:13
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> I was just going to post my response this but my Banda is out of spirit
> – and, dammit, the Gestetner ink has dried up ...
>
>
> [cid:image001.jpg@01CC9019.0705E230]<http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/File:Ditto.jpg>
>
> John Hilsdon
> Head of Learning Development
> 01752 587750
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>
> http://www.learningdevelopment.plymouth.ac.uk<http://www.learningdevelopment.plymouth.ac.uk/>
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>
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On
> Behalf Of Christine Smith
> Sent: 21 October 2011 12:04
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> I am reminded of attending my first international conference back in the
> early 90s in Madrid to give a poster and very nervous I was too about
> that. It turned into a fun but very bizarre experience. For example:
>
> • In a paper session at the same conference the first speaker
> arrived to find a dead pigeon placed ceremoniously on the OHP. Thankfully
> he chose to remove it before continuing to present.
>
> • And another presenter read verbatim from his text-laden slides
> and I recall thinking ‘please, don’t ever do this’ – perhaps
> someone should have cut them up as in Gwen’s examples (or given him the
> pigeon??...)
>
>
> Adieu and farewell to the OHP
>
> Chris
> Dr Christine Smith
> Head of Academic Practice
> Academic Development Unit (ADU)
> 103 Clifford Whitworth
> Tel: x56505
> Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.adu.salford.ac.uk/<http://www.ldu.salford.ac.uk/>
>
> From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development
> Association
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]<mailto:[mailto:[log in to unmask]]> On
> Behalf Of Gwendolyn Van Der Velden
> Sent: 21 October 2011 11:51
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
>
> This reminds me of the event during which the VC of an Arts institute
> 'cheered up' my slides while I was presenting, by putting jelly beans on
> all the bullet points...
>
> Or the science lecturer who after many, many complaints about cramming too
> much information on his slides... Cut them all in half to solve the
> problem.
>
> Or in fact, my old curriculum design teacher who frequently corrected his
> slides with tipp-ex...
>
> Strangely enough, I think I may miss OHPs for all those reasons!
>
> Enjoy collating the obituary...
>
> Gwen van der Velden
>
> Sent by mobile device
>
> On 21 Oct 2011, at 11:32, "Race, Phil"
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> The message below was sent last week by a DVC to all teaching staff…
> “Over the past few years we have seen a significant drop in the use of
> Overhead Projectors (OHPs) and many sit idly in teaching areas gathering
> dust. We propose to remove all OHPs from teaching areas between June and
> August 2012. Therefore, by September 2012 all OHPs will have been removed
> from teaching spaces.
> We appreciate that there may be some staff who still utilise OHPs
> especially for historical materials or items which may no longer be
> physically available�.
> [The message continued by pointing out help available for colleagues who
> wished to 'digitize' old materials].
> Anyone wish to contribute to the obituary for OHPs? I’m happy to collate
> this, if you’d like to email me two or three short, eloquently-phrased
> eulogising sentences.
>
> ______________________________________________
> Professor Phil Race
> BSc PhD PGCE FCIPD SFHEA NTF
> Visiting Professor: University of Plymouth
> Emeritus Professor: Leeds Metropolitan University
> Adjunct Professor: James Cook University: Northern Queensland.
> (but home address is Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
> normally best contact me by email - I'm rarely at my phone!
>
> Main email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Website: http://www.phil-race.co.uk/
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Dr. Mylene J. Catel,
Associate professor of French
SUNY POTSDAM, NY
http://mylenejcatel.com/
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