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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

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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gwendolyn Van Der Velden
Sent: 21 October 2011 11:51
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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

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On 21 Oct 2011, at 11:32, "Race, Phil" <[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.

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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!
 
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