Suara Hati Ayahku

I had attended some conferences in Malaysia and also abroad. I saw some presenters (teachers) using the power point very badly. Just wonder .. why


· Must you read what there are on the slides. I think we all can read without listening to you reading them for about 20 minutes. Sometimes your voice is not interesting enough to catch our attention like those actors, actresses from Bollywood, Hollywood etc etc. (laugh)
· from the slides. What is better is ; you just put the key words and start explaining using your own words as naturally as possible. Show us that you know the subject as thoroughly as possible
· And where in your presentation can you prove that you are the master of your subject?
· Bother talking and reading at the same time. Ironically, you never look at my eyes. Are you scared of your students/ audiences? Say so plz.
· Putting some background ..that looks so ugly and the colors do not match at all. Man.
· Putting cartoons ? Do you want us to learn or to laugh?
· In your slides .. the contents are just similar to what is available from the text book(s). may we know where is your contribution, Prof?
· Are saying things so fast? I could hardly hear what you say? Is that English or ..what? OMG.. you speak so fast like you are singing in mathematics equations.
· Can’t you relax a bit. Hold your breath and say what you want to say ..for goodness sake?
· Are your legs trembling? Are you being hunted by the mafia? If so, please let others take your class. That’s very kind of you Prof?

The answers are put here .. very briefly. It may be

· The professor is too busy with his/her research work
· s/he did not bother to prepare the lesson so well enough for today
· the organization did not put so highly on teaching and learning activities
· doing research , publish the results from the research is more important than preparing a good piece of lecture … I think
· one senior professor one day told us that ‘.. anybody can teach anything ..’
· So that’s why s/he just read and read the points from the slides for the rest of the day.

Finally, it comes to one simple truth.

· You can’t expect us to produce grade ‘A’ result from that kind of acting with the power point. Period!