On last week’s INT 95 lecture, Dr. Lubach,
the associate dean of students, came to give us a presentation on critical
thinking. I did love Dr.Lubach’s presentation. I thought that he was an interesting
speaker. His slides show was very simple and easy to understand along with his
speech. The slides show was composed with many pictures, but it would not make
sense without listening to his speech. For this reason, I was very engaged in
his presentation. In addition, I thought that he had a good sense of humor. His
presentation connected to me, because he pointed out that we, as UCSB students,
have to learn to develop our critical thinking ability during college. He
showed us a pyramid of levels that lead to critical thinking. The pyramid included
knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. For
me, analysis is by far the hardest one.
On the last INT 95 section, we went to the
library to meet with Mrs. Weimer. She guided us to browse through the UCSB
library homepage and taught us how to access to the website when we are off campus.
I did not know how to search for books and to look for full text scholar articles
from the database before. For this reason, I found this information very
useful. After the appointment with Mrs.Weimer, I now know how to access to
those different databases that are available for us whenever I need to do a
research. I also thought that the handouts that she gave us were very useful,
because I did not know how to locate the books that I want in the library
before.
Dr. Lubach was definitely a good speaker. I think that this was in part due to the use of those presentation generation practices that all the teachers at my schools told us to use (not that we actually used them). This includes having a difference between the content on the slides and the content of the spoken presentation, as well as keeping the slides clean and clear. All of this resulted in a very good presentation.
ReplyDeleteI was unable to attend the library visit, but from what it sounded like in the other blogs, it seems pretty similar to the presentations I had in high school. I will be sure to make good use of the resources.