Thursday 21 November 2013

Peer review by video

Swansea University © David Gill
Lecturing comes in all shapes and sizes. So in just over a week I will be delivering a lecture and then a postgraduate seminar to students at Swansea University (my former institution). One will be to second year Egyptology students on the theme of collecting Egyptian antiquities. As I am going to be peer observed (although remotely) I am beginning to think about the elements I need. How do I interact with my Powerpoint slides? How can the students ask questions? Do we use a Twitter wall? How do we break up the lecture?

Then there are the hardware issues. Do I sit in front of the Macbook or at my office workstation? Or do I got to the video conference room? 

And then there is the medium. Will I try Google Hangouts? Or GoToMeeting?

Lecturing is never dull!