Dear Phil,
A sad, sad day indeed.
Although I haven’t used them for many years I do think longingly of OHPs every
time I wait for five minutes at the start of a session for the computer to warm
up and log me on or when PowerPoint unaccountably freezes mid-session.
Inevitably my solution is to punch the advance slide button repeatedly.
Nothing happens at first but after a minute or so the slides jump forward
rapidly, once for every punch of the button. As I say to the students
every time this happens, “It was so much easier with OHPs in the old
days”. Most of them haven’t got a clue what I am talking about.
Best wishes,
Tim Hall
University of Gloucestershire
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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
Sent by mobile device
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).
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