RE: You hadda be there

[P3D E R Swanson <ers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: Chuck's comments on Learning Styles & Presentation Skills

Chuck,

Astute observations. My presentation skills are fairly good, but they're
presenter skills, not teaching skills. E.g. presenting and defending a
budget, that sort of thing. I've done hands on workshops at the local
stereo club, but the audience was much smaller. NSA was a learning
experience for me. Because we ran John's workshop twice and Sam's went the
full hour, I didn't have time to haul out the projects I'd brought for
show and tell, which may or may not have added some pizzaz.

The Viewmaster workshop had clear sailing for time, scheduled the previous
day, and that really made a difference re my stress level. That was a fun
workshop to do and people walked away with some good practical info under
their belts.

Your comment is also interesting re providing things like cameras and
tools as part of the workshop... Occasionally Harry will sell wrecked
Kodaks cheap, and the tools needed to work on a Kodak camera would
probably not cost over $35 (excluding a Dremel!).  I'd be a little leary
of having someone taking apart a perfectly good Kodak, but considering the
number of them out there that don't work correctly (or at all), this is
probably not a problem... We couldn't actually solvent clean a camera
because of naptha's fire and vapor hazards-- cleaning would have to be
simulated. Next time there's a West Coast NSA, I'd consider doing a Kodak
camera workshop, and one on how to convert the Kodaslide 1 into a
Wollensak via George's inexpensive acromats. (I modified a K1 for Dave
Hitchcock at 5:30am at the convention during a bout of insomnia-- it's
the kind of work you can do while half asleep  :)

Anyway, thanks for the thoughts on teaching techniques. Any suggested
books are welcome-- please post to me offlist. I really feel that NSA
needs to continue in the workshop business-- workshops can significantly
enhance attendance at the conferences. People like Dr. T or John B or Sam
could be real boxoffice draws, but the workshops need to be preregistered
and limited in size if people are actually going to do hand's-on work or
launch an intellectual exploration of optics in a controlled environment
(we had to limit the audience for John's presentation because if people
sat outside the area designed for reconstructing the perspective examples,
they wouldn't have seen what they were supposed to see on the screen).  

I really enjoyed the Stereo Theater presentations, but I can only sit in
the dark watching 3D slides for so long...  must be some kind of attention
span disorder.  :) 

--Elliott



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