'You may recognize it: a PowerPoint with many sheets, filled with extensive text. The idea behind this is often to make the presentation also serve as a reference work for students who cannot attend the lecture. An understandable reasoning, although such sheets distract from your story. You do more justice as a lecturer or researcher if your presentation supports your story in the background. Using more images and less text helps. But how do you go about this? The workshop 'Pimp Your PowerPoint' gives you practical tools to deal differently with the content of your presentation, based on topics such as contrast and use of color. All this to positively influence the attention of your audience and get your story across in the best possible way.
I am also part of the Games & Education special interest group. During The Education Days, the four of us will be hosting sessions around the roundtable discussion on Wednesday, March 20, on the use of board and card games in education. We will have games ready to play and discuss. These are partly existing board games, partly board games developed specifically for education. Using games can help gain new insights, in group dynamics, for example, or better understanding of complex issues such as democracy or sustainability. As a special interest group, we want to show how to weave game concepts into your teaching and help you as a teacher get started with that.
For me, this will be my second year attending The Education Days. Last year I experienced that you can easily and quickly gain new insights and that the workshops help you to actually put them into practice. Looking at the program this year, the new minor 'Energy Innovations: a planetary perspective on challenging learning' seems interesting to me, as does the workshop 'Art as a driver of teacher development'. I like to be surprised, and I am particularly curious about themes that are unique and current. With our Team Educational Design & Technology, we work for all faculties to arrive at creative and innovative educational products with teachers. The Education Days help with that.'