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[Saffy]

So, a number of us are in university now or returned to high school. How is the new year treating you? :)

I'm personally loving my new university and my classes. I haven't felt so good in a while.

[Oscar]

This is my second year in college and it is going pretty good.

All my classes are great. The teachers are all awesome. But my favorite thing is my Social Psychology class. That class is just awesome. I very much enjoy the material and the teacher in that class is hilarious and very entertaining(in a way that helps you learn the material).

My American Literature class is good, I mean, I like what we're learning, but the readings are incredibly boring and crazy long. -_- Guess it's just the time period that's boring to me. Which is from the beginnings of America to 1820.

I then have a Cravings and Addiction class(also Psychology related)and this one is fun, too. We talk about interesting things or others mention how drunk they love to get or their experiences with smoking. I even helped my brother sort of quit smoking after learning some stuff there. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) SORT OF. Let's see if he keeps it up, but I doubt it, haha. It's just the teacher has long and boring powerpoints in that class...

I'm also taking an introductory statistics class and I can't say much about that class. I'm pretty neutral to it. It's okay and I'm doing math again(not happy about that), but whatever. It's useful. Actually, I'm mad at the teacher cuz I got back my first homework assignment and I got some problems wrong, but it makes no sense why I got 'em wrong. We're doing sigma summation and I summed up the entire values. That's all I had to do, yet it was wrong?! I've added it three times and I keep getting 30!

And then I'm taking an introductory class to literary studies and that one is a lot of fun! The short stories we're reading are great. But this first paper we have to do seems odd. And I decided to take it online cuz I wanted two classes a day again.


Umm, wall of text. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

[Guitar Smasher]

It's just the teacher has long and boring powerpoints in that class...

Powerpoint is the bane of proper learning. I've only seen it used effectively in ONE class.

[Oscar]

Powerpoint is the bane of proper learning. I've only seen it used effectively in ONE class.

Yeah, it is annoying. And three of my teachers this year love using them. Well, except two of them actually do it right. They give you the info through powerpoint and then they go through everything with great detail and examples and what not. But dunno if that's much better. At least they're not solely relying on powerpoint like my Cravings teacher. -_-

I'm curious, do you get teachers that do powerpoint often? Or how do they teach? Cuz it seems I've been getting many powerpoint lovers...

[Guitar Smasher]

I'm curious, do you get teachers that do powerpoint often? Or how do they teach? Cuz it seems I've been getting many powerpoint lovers...

Last year I had 4 of 10 courses taught on the blackboard, the rest was PP. PP can be useful in graphics-intensive classes where it would be difficult/lengthy to draw all the diagrams and models (Materials Engineering, for example). The best use I found was in Statistics. The prof kept all the notes and example questions in PP, displayed above the blackboard, and then he'd solve the problems on the blackboard. Because the students didn't have to copy down each question (just the answers), he was able to get through a lot more work than if it was all blackboard notes.

Overall, I prefer notes being written on the blackboard because the prof can't rush things, and you actually see how he (or she) solves the problems. This term, 3 of my 5 classes use this method.

On the other hand, my Mathematical Methods prof from last year, just copied the textbook word for word - from memory - and ignored most questions. He also happened to be the author of the textbook, so it was as impressive as it was redundant.