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THE INTERVIEW //an evening with Erin Christ iansen
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ERIN CHRISTIANSEN //Full-time student Environmental studies, BS German, BA French, minor
Hometown: Chanute, Kansas, SEK
Dream job: Save killer whales in Canada
Can’t go a day without wearing her Jayhawk earrings, class ring & cross necklace
Lives for KU basketball video montages
Loves writing and receiving snail mail despite the tediousness of the U.S. Postal Service
Will someday seclude to the Rockies with a bulldog, huskie, and horses in tow
Life motto: Determined to be hip and cool forever
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“When it comes to music, I roll with the punches. Indie rock mountain man music up through rap and hip hop.
But never country. I don’t own enough belt buckles for that.”
GAME BOARD //
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7:30WAKE UP
BREAKFAST:TEA / TOAST / FRUIT
GET DRESSEDCLOTHES / HAIR /
MAKE UP
WALK TO CLASS
FIND SEAT IN LECTURE
HALLBUDIG/WESCOE
GET OUTNOTE-TAKING
SUPPLIESLECTURE
QUIZ
REVIEW
TEST
NOTES ON NOTES ON
NOTES
STEAM WHISTLEHUZZAH
WALK HOME WALK TO LIBRARY
OFFICE HOURS
EMAIL TA ABOUT
QUESTIONS
EMAIL PROFESSOR
IF BIGQUESTION
HOMEWORK READING LABREPORT
STUDYING MEMORIZING
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THREE PROBLEMS //1. The live music experience
2. Language homework, website overload
3. Big lectures, big confusion
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FIRST PROBLEM //Live music
Expensive
Standing around, waiting for sets to change
Timeliness is a no go. Ever.
IHeartLocalMusic.com
Openers lame, sometimes (Arabmuzik)
Openers utilizing app to gain exposure
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WORD LIST //
HOW IT SOUNDS.
HOW IT MAKES YOU FEEL.
MOOD OF NOISE.
LISTENING, NOT HEARING.
HOW CAN THIS BE PUT INTO AN APP?
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SECOND PROBLEM //Language homework references
Four different sites to do one hw assignment
Word Reference / Canoo.net / Google translate / Dict.leo
Professor refuses to use Blackboard, email, internet
Expectation confusion
Student to student relationships
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WORD LIST //
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YOU HAVE QUESTIONS. AND YOU KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH THE SAME QUESTIONS.
YOU ALSO KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
BUT WHERE DO YOU GO?
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THIRD PROBLEM //Falls asleep in lecutre (bio & chem)
Why? Boring. Not enough visuals. Bad powerpoints.
What makes them bad? Layout, type, bad diagrams & visuals
No reason to care about information
No time for further explanations or questions.
Purely lecturing. Nothing else.
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WORD LIST //
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
1
1Origin of earth
Origin of life
Evolution of O2 photosynthesis
Evolution of eukaryotes
Evolution of multicellularity
?
Ma = millions of years ago
Life on landOrigin of Earth
• Approximately 4.6 BYA
• Planets condensed from
rotating cloud of dust & gas
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Surface of earth cooler, solid
• New atmosphere, water
– From impacts of asteroids, icy
proto-planets, etc.
– Outgassing from volcanos
– No molecular Oxygen (O2)
– No ozone layer
• Lots of UV radiation
• Rocks & minerals- types seen in
absence of free oxygen
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Life originated early in Archaean
Earliest definite fossils~ 3 BYA
• look like modern
bacteria
• Stromatolites
– bacterial communities
• Heterotrophic
– mop up organic
goodies in sea
– Anaerobic
• No O2 in air
Proterozoic Eon2.5 to 0.5 BYA
• Gradual formation of continents
• 2.7 BYA: photosynthesis
– Autotrophic cyanobacteria
• 1.5 BYA
– Atmospheric O2 reaches ~modern
level
– 21% O2
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Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
1
1Origin of earth
Origin of life
Evolution of O2 photosynthesis
Evolution of eukaryotes
Evolution of multicellularity
?
Ma = millions of years ago
Life on landOrigin of Earth
• Approximately 4.6 BYA
• Planets condensed from
rotating cloud of dust & gas
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Surface of earth cooler, solid
• New atmosphere, water
– From impacts of asteroids, icy
proto-planets, etc.
– Outgassing from volcanos
– No molecular Oxygen (O2)
– No ozone layer
• Lots of UV radiation
• Rocks & minerals- types seen in
absence of free oxygen
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Life originated early in Archaean
Earliest definite fossils~ 3 BYA
• look like modern
bacteria
• Stromatolites
– bacterial communities
• Heterotrophic
– mop up organic
goodies in sea
– Anaerobic
• No O2 in air
Proterozoic Eon2.5 to 0.5 BYA
• Gradual formation of continents
• 2.7 BYA: photosynthesis
– Autotrophic cyanobacteria
• 1.5 BYA
– Atmospheric O2 reaches ~modern
level
– 21% O2
6
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
1
1Origin of earth
Origin of life
Evolution of O2 photosynthesis
Evolution of eukaryotes
Evolution of multicellularity
?
Ma = millions of years ago
Life on landOrigin of Earth
• Approximately 4.6 BYA
• Planets condensed from
rotating cloud of dust & gas
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Surface of earth cooler, solid
• New atmosphere, water
– From impacts of asteroids, icy
proto-planets, etc.
– Outgassing from volcanos
– No molecular Oxygen (O2)
– No ozone layer
• Lots of UV radiation
• Rocks & minerals- types seen in
absence of free oxygen
Archaean Eon, ~3.8 BYA
• Life originated early in Archaean
Earliest definite fossils~ 3 BYA
• look like modern
bacteria
• Stromatolites
– bacterial communities
• Heterotrophic
– mop up organic
goodies in sea
– Anaerobic
• No O2 in air
Proterozoic Eon2.5 to 0.5 BYA
• Gradual formation of continents
• 2.7 BYA: photosynthesis
– Autotrophic cyanobacteria
• 1.5 BYA
– Atmospheric O2 reaches ~modern
level
– 21% O2
6
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Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
2
• First, anaerobic heterotrophs– glycolysis
• Next, photosynthesizers (autotrophs)– Make O2, change oceans & atmosphere
• Then aerobic heterotrophs– Glycolysis AND Krebs Cycle (TCA cycle)
• Loosely called prokaryotes– Circular chromosome
– No nuclear membrane
– No intracellular membranes
– No organelles
– Etc.
Our cast so far:
Fig. 25.9
Begin oxygen
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Origin of Eukaryotes (~2.100 BYA)
Main differences from “prokaryotes”:
– Linear chromosomes
– Nucleus
– Membrane-bound organelles
• Endosymbiosis: bacteria “eaten” by eukaryote ancestor
Fig. 25.9
Begin oxygen
Multicellularity 1.2 BYA
– ~1.2 BYA, small algae
– ~0.64 BYA, soft flat sea-floor creatures?
We’re in the Phanerozoic Eon
(since 0.54 BYA or 542 MYA)
•Paleozoic life– Marine animals diversify:– (Cambrian Explosion)– Colonization of land– End-Permian mass extinction
•Mesozoic life– Dinosaurs diversify– Flowering plants– End-Cretaceous mass extinction
•Cenozoic life– Mammals diversify– Repeated ice ages– Humans evolve
• Cambrian explosion = great radiation
• Most phyla of animals appear
– And some we can’t assign to current phyla
• Evolution of hard shells/skeletons
– Shell-less relatives evolved earlier?
Paleozoic Era: Cambrian period
(542-488 Ma)
Cambrian explosion
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mya Paleozoic: Cambrian
(542-488 Ma)
• Cambrian Period ended with a
mass extinction
– Lost many echinoderms & trilobites
Cambrian explosion
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
3
13
mya Paleozoic: Ordovician
(488 - 444 Ma)
Plants move to land
Colonization of land• This is a massive event!
• Changes visible from space
– (if anyone were around to look)
• From Planet Ocean with brown continents,
• To Planet Ocean with GREEN land
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mya Paleozoic: Ordovician
(488 - 444 Ma)
• Ended with a mass extinction
– Proportionally 2nd largest?
Plants move to landMass extinction
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Paleozoic Era: Silurian Period
(444 - 416 Ma)
• Gnathostomes: jawed vertebrates with
paired fins
• Plants: vascular tissue
Some with bony plates
But still have no leaves
Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period
(416 – 360 Ma) “Age of Fishes”• plants diversify:
– Ferns, “club mosses,” horsetails (20 m trees), depended on water for reproduction
– Seed plants appear at end (gymnosperms) Don’t depend on water
for reproduction
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Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period
(416 – 360 Ma) • Animals move to land: arthropods
– Chelicerates (including mites, harvestmen, scorpions, extinct groups…)
– Mandibulates (including millipedes, insects)
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
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19
Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period (416 – 360 Ma)
Vertebrates:– Two subclasses of bony fishes
• Ray-finned ( most fishes)
• Lobe-finned
• move to land: amphibians– Lobes modified into limbs
Devonianmass extinction
Paleozoic Era: Carboniferous
(360 – 299 Ma)
• Amphibians & insects diversify
• Swamp forests coal
– Mostly vascular plants w/o seeds
Woody plants,widespread tropical climate,
equator on Appalachians& N. Europe
mid-Paleozoic: 356 Ma
Eastern Kansas:marinelimestone, shaleterrestrialcoal
Sea level fluctuation due to glaciers in Gondwana 21
KS
Eastern Kansas: Cuesta Topography
W E
Limestone deep water Shale shallower water
23
Kansas Surface Geology
Elevation:Pinkish-highest
Blue-lowest~3000 ft difference
Geological Time:~340 million years
Time travel in Kansas
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LECTURE SLIDES //
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
4
19
Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period (416 – 360 Ma)
Vertebrates:– Two subclasses of bony fishes
• Ray-finned ( most fishes)
• Lobe-finned
• move to land: amphibians– Lobes modified into limbs
Devonianmass extinction
Paleozoic Era: Carboniferous
(360 – 299 Ma)
• Amphibians & insects diversify
• Swamp forests coal
– Mostly vascular plants w/o seeds
Woody plants,widespread tropical climate,
equator on Appalachians& N. Europe
mid-Paleozoic: 356 Ma
Eastern Kansas:marinelimestone, shaleterrestrialcoal
Sea level fluctuation due to glaciers in Gondwana 21
KS
Eastern Kansas: Cuesta Topography
W E
Limestone deep water Shale shallower water
23
Kansas Surface Geology
Elevation:Pinkish-highest
Blue-lowest~3000 ft difference
Geological Time:~340 million years
Time travel in Kansas
24
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
4
19
Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period (416 – 360 Ma)
Vertebrates:– Two subclasses of bony fishes
• Ray-finned ( most fishes)
• Lobe-finned
• move to land: amphibians– Lobes modified into limbs
Devonianmass extinction
Paleozoic Era: Carboniferous
(360 – 299 Ma)
• Amphibians & insects diversify
• Swamp forests coal
– Mostly vascular plants w/o seeds
Woody plants,widespread tropical climate,
equator on Appalachians& N. Europe
mid-Paleozoic: 356 Ma
Eastern Kansas:marinelimestone, shaleterrestrialcoal
Sea level fluctuation due to glaciers in Gondwana 21
KS
Eastern Kansas: Cuesta Topography
W E
Limestone deep water Shale shallower water
23
Kansas Surface Geology
Elevation:Pinkish-highest
Blue-lowest~3000 ft difference
Geological Time:~340 million years
Time travel in Kansas
24
Major events in earth history 1/28/2013
4
19
Paleozoic Era: Devonian Period (416 – 360 Ma)
Vertebrates:– Two subclasses of bony fishes
• Ray-finned ( most fishes)
• Lobe-finned
• move to land: amphibians– Lobes modified into limbs
Devonianmass extinction
Paleozoic Era: Carboniferous
(360 – 299 Ma)
• Amphibians & insects diversify
• Swamp forests coal
– Mostly vascular plants w/o seeds
Woody plants,widespread tropical climate,
equator on Appalachians& N. Europe
mid-Paleozoic: 356 Ma
Eastern Kansas:marinelimestone, shaleterrestrialcoal
Sea level fluctuation due to glaciers in Gondwana 21
KS
Eastern Kansas: Cuesta Topography
W E
Limestone deep water Shale shallower water
23
Kansas Surface Geology
Elevation:Pinkish-highest
Blue-lowest~3000 ft difference
Geological Time:~340 million years
Time travel in Kansas
24
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BUT WHAT MAKES THEM BAD? //
Afraid of white space, no breathing room
Text + images + diagram/model
Information overload
But what makes this layout tiring? The information’s the same.
Would is be advantageous presented differently?
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SEEING
information overload
TACTILE EASY TOACCESS
MICROSOFTWORD
PACKAGE
USEREASE
UNIVERSAL
BASICKNOWLEDGE EXPECTEDclip art, pixelated images
poor typeface choice
WHY ARE LECTURES SO
AWFUL?
PAINFUL TO3 SENSES
BUT WHY POWERPOINT?
WHY IS IT EASYTO USE?
HOW DOES THISAFFECT THE
STUDENTEXPERIENCE?
HIGHEFFICIENCYLEARNING
HEARING
diagrams, too small
diagrams, not explained
type size, too big, too small
same ppt format, boring
too much text
too many example problems
animated text
title, sub title, body text
same speaker over again
microphone, no microphone
public speaking abilities
accent, hard to understand
pencil, paper, eraser
sit there, no movement
talked to, that’s it
applications?
segmented time
halfway point break
presentation cut down on time?
not efficient with info presentation
professor’s time
ta’s time
most importantly...
your time
expensive
too much design freedom
more buttons, more complicated
acrobat not accessible to everyone
hear information
seen information
interacted information
applied information
work place
quick and easy guide
to do’s, not to do’s
universally improved presentations
cut the crap
focus. learn. understand.
answers when ? arises
waiting to hear back from email
wasted learning period
give ta’s something to do during lecture
already have notes
but only bare minimum
fall asleep
is class even worth it?
INDESIGN?NOPE.
TEMPLATES EASY TO ZONE OUT
RETRACEMISSED
INFO
NO TIMEFOR
QUESTIONS
HOW CAN WE LEARN BETTER?
CAN AN APPCUT OUT TIME WASTED
IN CLASS?
TIMEEFFICIENCY
SAVETIME
GETQUESTIONSANSWERED
APPLICATIONSOUTSIDESCHOOL?
LEARN INMULTIPLE
WAYS
PRESENTATIONS.GOOD ONES.
TEACHER/STUDENT
INTERACTION
STUDENT/STUDENT
INTERACTION
QUESTIONSANSWERED
IMMEDIATELY
EFFICIENTLYPRESENTED
INFORMATION
CONCISEINFO
MODEL //
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“ I have questions & I know others have the same questions. There are people with the answers. I need a place where all of those
CONNECT.”