How to give lectures more impact

From the UO Teaching Effectiveness website:

* Watch Susan Glaser's video on "Effective Lecturing." It is available through TEP, and you can arrange to check it out via email.

* Use visual images to describe your point -- a striking demonstration concerning physics or a visual analogy to describe a poem.

* Use language that appeals to the senses: "This smells to me like the Pythagorean Theorem!"

* Use many examples; they make lectures come alive. A vivid example has far more impact than accumulated data.
For example: no matter what Consumer Reports tells you, if your uncle owns a lemon of a Volvo, you will be wary of Volvos for a long time.

* Figure out ways to make lectures interactive. Get students bumping into each other to simulate particle diffusion, or have half of the class argue for an issue and the other half argue against it.

* If there are a few points in the lecture that are crucial to understanding the big picture, figure out how you are going to phrase the key concepts of an entire lecture. It might not be necessary to memorize the words you will use, but get familiar with the approach you will take.

* Begin with a simple story related to the topic of the day.

* Have outlines of your lecture available for your students either online or on reserve in the library. These do not need to be extensive, but should give students the structure of what you are going to present.