Specialist in Effective Teaching to Host Seminar: “Using PowerPoint to Ruin a Perfectly Good Lecture”

Morgantown, WV, September 8, 2006: West Virginia University’s Department of Psychology and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring a seminar on a topic familiar to most teachers and students: the misuse of PowerPoint.

Hosted by Dr. David B. Daniel, specialist in effective pedagogical techniques, the seminar is entitled, “Using PowerPoint to Ruin a Perfectly Good Lecture: Where Student Learning, Cognitive Psychology and Educational Practice Collide.”

The lecture will be in the Gold Ballroom of the Mountainlair on Tuesday, September 12 at 7:00pm.

Dr. Daniel received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Life-Span Developmental Psychology at WVU. He currently works with the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Colorado, and until recently, was an associate professor of Psychology at the University of Maine at Farmington and associate research scientist for the New England Research Institutes.

He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University for the 2004-2005 academic year in the field of Mind, Brain and Education, and is a founding Board member of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society. He currently strives to develop effective teaching practices that positively impact both student learning and teacher performance.

For more information, please contact the Department of Psychology by phone at (304) 293-2001.

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