Week 4

Again, class was very interesting this week. I do really enjoy the lack of Power Point in this class. At first I was pretty surprised that we didn't have slides since Dr. Engelberg is so into media, but now I understand why he refrains from using PP for class lectures. This is only my second professor in graduate school so far who has not used PP, and I have to say that I pay a lot closer attention in class because of it. We actually have to TAKE OUR OWN NOTES - HEAVEN FORBID!!! I don't even remember when PP began to become popular in teaching, but I do know that since its implementation, I am much more likely to work on something else or zone out in class when I know that I can always refer back to my slides later. I do think that some PP presentations can still be presented in an interesting manner. However, I experienced one that was terrible (even though the topic was very interesting) first thing Tuesday morning - the day after this week's class. I was shocked that one of my supervisors had such a terrible presentation. She literally read from her slides and did not incorporate any additional info. on most of them. She also seemed surprised by some of the slides' content, even though she had made the slides herself. I was embarrassed for her, really.
Anyway, the rest of the class was fine, too, but I had done the active listening exercise one too many times in other psych. courses, so that was not much fun for me. Seeing that others got a lot out of it was interesting, though. It is a good exercise when done for the first time!