Enhancing classroom lectures with digital sliding blackboards
Proceedings of the 9th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Beautiful Evidence
Observing presenters' use of visual aids to inform the design of classroom presentation software
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Learning and teaching is often supported using presentation software to display pre-authored slides in sequence over time. We wish to consider the pedagogic implications of Multi-Display Learning Spaces (MD-LS), where multiple partitions of presented information overlay a larger area within the physical environment. We discuss the use in university teaching of the Multi-Slides plug-in for popular presentation software, along with multiple projectors, to cascade multiple slides of information simultaneously across two walls of a seminar room. We use examples derived from postgraduate teaching to argue that MD-LS allow for enabling juxtapositions of visual materials -- such as evidence, results, conceptual frameworks and task specifications -- which can be used by students and tutors as cognitive tools to promote reasoned, argumentational dialogue. We consider the spatial implications for learning, and relate MD-LS to attempts within the literature to conceive classrooms of the future.