Challenges of Teaching Live and Distance Audiences Simultaneously

■ Engage live and remote audiences simultaneously

■ Acknowledge remote audience by greeting them at the beginning of the class and looking at the camera

■ Stay in camera view range

■ Identify and know remote participants

■ Consider differences and difficulties for remote students

Best practices:

■ Use a microphone, as otherwise your remote audience cannot hear you. Consider using the lapel microphone, especially if you tend to move around while talking.

■ Use mouse as pointer, instead of laser pointer. Remote audiences cannot see the laser pointer.

■ Use document camera or on screen annotation, instead of whiteboard or blackboard, as remote audiences cannot see these.

■ Remind local students to use microphone to ask questions (push a button to talk in T733)

■ Repeat questions for remote students if no microphone is used, as otherwise they cannot hear the question

■ Invite remote students to ask questions. Design active learning activities that include the remote audience.

Recommendations:

■ Presentation in the Classroom

Tips for creating effective slide presentations:

Don’t...

put the entire presentation on the slides and then read it
use more slides than is necessary to communicate your message
advance through the slides too quickly, or skip slides; each slide should be up long enough to discuss what is on the slide, not just read through it
use slides as a replacement for a handout/online course guide; this will result in cramming too much information into each slide
use distracting colors, images, clip art, sound effects; the focus of your presentation is the content and you, the deliverer of content

Do...

be a compelling speaker! Visual learners benefit from slides, but can zone out during presentations.
consider how to keep the audience engaged, by adding an activity such as a Turning Point question every 15 minutes.
Consider how PHI is presented in class. Ensure that patient consent is in place, de-identify patients as far as possible, and only discuss PHI that is relevant to the teaching need.
insert blank or minimal slides at key points so that your audience shifts focus from the slides to you, the speaker
practice your presentation, being mindful of timing
assess each slide’s importance. Often teachers skip slides during a presentation because they realize it is unimportant, or they do not have time to address it. Each slide should enhance your overall point and complement what you are saying out loud.
think about how large your audience is and how big the room will be - can they read your slides from that distance?
Save your presentation in multiple places
1. On your laptop
2. Post on Canvas website, Google Drive, OneDrive...
3. On a flash drive
4. In your email

PowerPoint Best Practices

Limit the number of fonts you use in your presentation
Use whitespace to make the presentation legible and elegant.
Use sans-serif fonts like Arial or Verdana because they can be read from a distance more easily.
Text needs to be legible - the larger your classroom, the larger your font should be.
Use color in your presentation consistently. Select a scheme for your presentation. Use color to highlight important points, emphasize relationships and set things apart from one another.
Use a blank dark background for photos and radiographs for maximum visibility
Consider enlarging images to the edges of the slide for maximum visibility

Laptop: We support the following video connectors…

SVGA

Dongles we provide:

■ Use other technology to engage students locally and remotely

Online quiz tool, such as Canvas quiz
Poll Everywhere: https://www.polleverywhere.com/auth/washington
SoftChalk: http://softchalk.com/products/cloud/
Multi-media: Watch a Distance Teaching and Learning video by Dr. Frank Roberts: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1031384/pages/effective-presentation-techniques-for-remote-students

Help at SOD

Gabby Catalano: gcata@uw.edu
Hongjun Wang: whongjun@uw.edu