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Terresa Beckley
It's taking way too long for some of the lecture recordings to get uploaded to my courses. It's been more than 30 hours for one and it hasn't been uploaded yet. While for other classes they get uploaded within an hour!
Hey, does anyone know if you can access old lecture recordings? I am doing a summer research project and I need to re-learn/ refresh some material from old classes but it says " The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported."
The Anna I. McPherson Lectures in Physics were established in honour of AnnaIsobel McPherson, a member of the McGill Physics Faculty from 1940 until herdeath in 1979. Over her long association with the Department of Physics,Anna McPherson made important contributions in teaching, research, andcounselling, helping and teaching a very large number of students. TheMcPherson lecture series was established to acknowledge her outstandinggenerosity and her many valued academic contributions. The mandate of theselectures is to bring a distinguished physicist to McGill each year to givetwo lectures, one of which is a lecture for the general public.
Listed in Atlas Obscura as on of the20Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Montréal and in L'Actualité's Montréal Insolite,both areopen to the public (prior appointment necessary, contact...@physics.mcgill.ca).
For more behind-the-scenes content, plus rare audio recordings of lectures from the 1960s to the 1980s, video recordings of lectures starting in the early 1990s through to the present day, and select lecture transcripts, visit the new Beatty Lecture Digital Archive (mcgill.ca/beatty/digital-archive). Designed as a rich and unique source of primary research material, the Digital Archive also preserves this material for generations to come.
There is actual empirical data showing online lecture delivery reduces learning outcomes
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This article on written vs electronic note taking while not duirectly relevant to the issue of online notes is also interesting from the point of how lectures re-enforce learning
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Many classrooms have seats facing the front of the room with a data projector projecting onto a screen that faces the seats. This design almost beckons a lecture accompanied by slideware. While the physical space does not compel instructors to use PowerPoint in the conventional ways that it is often used, for example, with bulleted lists of information, instructors might be encouraged to design courses differently if classroom design beckoned other teaching and learning scenarios, such as group discussions around small tables.
3) Again, a great point. I think my post has a narrow view in the sense of not appreciating fully the variety of learning styles out there, and that for some students, the ppt slides are the *best* way to learn, in the same way that for some, having audio recordings of lectures is key. When I posted the link to the blog on Facebook, a very vigorous debate ensued, with a lot of the focus on this exact point: learning styles cannot be pigeon-holed.
General Information
- Instructor: William L. Hamilton
- Email: w...@cs.mcgill.ca
- Office hours: Mondays 2:30-4:30pm
- Term: Winter 2020
- When: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:05-2:25pm
- Where: Zoom Meeting ID 6957556003
"In the McGill context specifically, none of the plans I've seen show that any additional safety measures have been put in place, and no improvements have been made in things like automatic lecture recordings and built-in accommodations," she wrote.
Herman also highlighted the erosion of the privacy rights of ordinary Americans under post 9/11 security regimes, and critiqued American courts, legislators and the executive branch for their failure to protect Americans from the erosion of civil liberties. Going beyond that, Herman deliberately brought a positive spin to the lecture by putting the focus on Arar and other real-life heroes fighting for civil liberties in this post-9/11 world.
From the Nobel to the Pulitzer, from the Kremlin to Wimbledon, from Cambridge to Carnegie Hall, McGill has hosted a diverse range of prestigious voices under the Beatty Lecture banner. In recent years, our speakers have been conservation advocate Jane Goodall, authors Roxane Gay and Margaret Atwood, philosopher Charles Taylor, psychiatrist and bioengineer Dr. Karl Diesseroth, pianist Alfred Brendel, and social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus. The topics that lecturers have covered are equally eclectic and provocative, including the environment, human rights, urbanization, evolution, comedy, philosophy, and much more.
The Beatty Lecture aims to foster the exchange of ideas by bringing the worlds leading thinkers to McGill to give a public lecture on a subject of their choice and spend one or two days engaging with McGill faculty and students. The Lecture takes place in the fall, on the Universitys downtown campus.
This class is supported by DataCamp, which will allow you to learn Rthrough a combination of short expert videos and hands-on-the-keyboardexercises. You will be asked to complete some of the courses in DataCampfor background reading or for assignments. You can sign up for a freeaccount at thislink.Note: you are required to sign up with a @mail.mcgill.ca or @mcgill.caemail address.
McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore, all studentsmust understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism andother academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct andDisciplinary Procedures (seewww.mcgill.ca/students/srr/honest/for more information).
The FBI? CIA? Try ICC - the Instructional Communications Centre. From their secret headquarters on the 16th floor of 688 Sherbrooke, this little-known but ubiquitous organization handles everything from designing multimedia materials to loaning audiovisual equipment. ICC's mission is to support the use of technology in teaching and to provide cost-effective professional graphic design, photo, video and courseware production services. Audiovisual Arrangements offices in the Redpath Library Building and at Macdonald Campus loan out and repair audiovisual equipment and laptop computers. They also maintain all of the equipment in classrooms and lecture theatres.
Examples of this are on the ICC website (www.mcgill.ca/icc). One recent project with the Faculty of Dentistry led to Interceptive Orthodontics: Diagnosis, an online teaching module that aims to provide theoretical and practical skills for students in orthodontics.
That isn't what has Finkelstein excited these days. ICC has recently licensed a software program called Camtasia, which will allow instructors to audio record their lectures, along with anything on their computer screens, for later playback.
The new software, which is free for all McGill instructors to use, builds on existing services like the Department of Chemistry COOL technology, which combines lecture recordings with PowerPoint playback. Camtasia won't be replacing those services, just adding to them.
Finkelstein - who is currently completing his PhD in instructional psychology - said that experience has shown that use of software like Camtasia doesn't lead to increased absenteeism. Rather, students use archived lectures for review, a particularly handy service for students whose first language is not English.
Classes are held every day usually from 8:30 and run until around 3:00. The schedule if different everyday. We are handed a schedule for the whole unit in our coursepack (which is basically all the compiled notes for the unit for each lecturer). Some units we finish earlier, some later. Depending on the unit, there will be labs (histology microscope labs and gross anatomy labs). There are also small group (like PBL sessions where we discuss cases relevant to the physiology we are learnng in class) 1-2 x week, depending on the unit. We alternate who presents the cases that day.
Housing situation: most students live either in the mcgill ghetto or near the mcyntyre building (like on dr. penfield, where I live). A big majority of the class live at home, either in the west island or south shore and commute to school. If you currently live with your family and don't mind the commute, living at home isn't a bad idea for BOM because the hours are still decent (Unlike clerkship). I think some 3 and 4th years still live at home and commute but I'm not sure how they manage and many one of them can comment on this. I don't think anyone lives in rez although it may be possible. it's pretty easy to find an appartment in montreal and rent is very reasonable.
Resources provided by the school: mcgill provides good resources for us. All our notes are available online, along with lecture recordings. There are tons of online help/resources made by the school (online tutorials, etc...) that you can check out on
There are tons of study space available to us and mcgill has MANY MANY libraries. Since we are still considered undergraduate students, we have access to all the same resources other undergraduates have (reduced gym memberships, student societies, clubs).
QUality of instruction/curriculum: I am very satisfied by the quality of intruction. Quality of lecturers varies and with any school, we have some bad lecturers and bad notes for particular lectures but in all, quality of instruction is very good. McGill has many distinguished professors and researchers (MDs and PhDs) who are experts in their fields and I think it's great to be learning from them. I like the way the curriculum is set up with mainly didactic teaching. McGill is not a PBL based school, although we have PBL like sessions with small groups. If you like a PBL environment, mcgill is NOT for you. Also, I like the systems based approach and the way everything is structured in units whre we study everything relevant to that particular system (histo, anat, physio, ..). pass/fail really helps to alleviate a lot of the stress. The only problem that I (and most of my classmates) have is the evaluations. Everything is Multple choice and we have exams around every 3 weeks. This definately keeps you on your toes and up to date with the material but can be stressful since there isn't much "down time". Also, mcgill has NO spring break
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