Better Course PowerPoints
The PowerPoints for the courses I've taught so far (or will teach in the Fall) are truly awful! I have spent hours upon hours editing them so that they are usable in a classroom setting. There are way too many words on each slide. The typestyle is too small to be seen in a normal classroom setting. If I want to print in "outline" form so my students can take notes that way, many of the text boxes don't appear and I have to delete and recreate them so they show up. I'm attaching what I've done to edit the Chapter 1 Section 1.1 PowerPoint for Routing, Switching, Wireless. I edited the slides for Section 1.1 only and left the others as is to work on later.
Violet Fiddes
shared this idea
AdminSandra Ray
(Customer Support Director, or Executive, Cisco Networking Academy)
responded
Thank you for your feedback. The PowerPoints are provided as a resource for instructors to use however best fits their teaching style. We provide a baseline of content and if instructors like them how they are they can use them as is. If they do not work as is, we encourage instructors to edit the content and make them their own. The slides are often created by long term NetAcad instructors so that we can tap into their many years of teaching experience to create this resource. We realize that whatever is created will not work for all 28,000 instructors globally.
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Greg Cote
commented
Thank you for your feedback. The PowerPoints are provided as a resource for instructors to use however best fits their teaching style. We provide a baseline of content and if instructors like them how they are they can use them as is. If they do not work as is, we encourage instructors to edit the content and make them their own. The slides are often created by long term NetAcad instructors so that we can tap into their many years of teaching experience to create this resource. We realize that whatever is created will not work for all 28,000 instructors globally."