That memorable moment, when your place your, carefully arranged stack of 47 beautifully crafted acaetates, on a table next to the OHP, announce to the audience of 60, in a suitably commanding tone, that "l think we should make a start...", switch it on and watch the fan distribute your presentation across the room.
Regards
Graham Lewis
(Sent from home)
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From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sam Brenton [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 21 October 2011 22:24
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Subject: Re: Goodbye OHPs
John,
On the group feedback question...
'Clickers' or audience voting systems are good for this. They are a really easy way to do straw polls, get quick feedback from hundreds of students, stimulate debate, check comprehension, refresh attention. And they are surprisingly unfiddly.
As for OHPs, they're superseded by visialisers/document cameras. These are a lovely technology, because they allow you to use your old acetates, or indeed write, project hard copy of images and text, as well as, say, circuit boards, bird skeletons, zooming in when you need to, and often recording it all for later replay.
I hope that the university Phil took the obituary from hadn't just removed all capability for projection of non-digital objects, but rather had replaced them all with visualisers.
Best,
Sam
On 21 Oct 2011, at 12:34, John Wakeford <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
OK. You all applaud the demise of the OHP. So can you share what alternative method you use for efficient group feedback in interactive sessions with large numbers where there is no document projector? I find ppt has major limitations and is too inflexible for this...
John Wakeford
On 21 Oct 2011, at 12:18, Bridget Middlemas wrote:
I won't be sad to see the back of OHPs, especially when I remember one of my lesssons at an FE college in the early 80's when the bulb exploded, the machine caught fire and we had to evacuate the whole building...
Bridget
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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 ...
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Sent: 21 October 2011 12:04
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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
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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]<mailto:[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.
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Emeritus Professor: Leeds Metropolitan University
Adjunct Professor: James Cook University: Northern Queensland.
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