Lecture Less, Do More!
Tracy Turner
Southwestern Law School
WHY USE NARRATED
POWERPOINTS?
•  Saves class time for interactive learning
•  Helps aural learners
•  Reinforces lessons
•  Easy to create
•  Easy to use
SAMPLE NARRATED
POWERPOINT
Professor Tracy Turner Southwestern Law School 2013 —  For each slide, click on the sound icon to hear audio. —  Have your Bluebook handy because you will want to refer to it when instructed during this presentation. —  Stop when told to stop, and answer the questions on your own before proceeding to the answers. This approach will greatly enhance your ability to learn the lessons this presentation provides. —  Indicates the strength of the authority relied upon —  Enables the reader to find the source and verify the truth of the author’s statement —  Keeps lawyers honest about the law —  Earns the trust of your reader As a general rule of negligence, a person has no duty to control another person’s conduct or to warn a third party of that person’s conduct. Tarasoff v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., 551 P.2d. 334, 341 n.11 (Cal. 1976). However, a special relationship between two individuals may impose on one a duty to prevent harm by the other. Id. at 343. The relationship between a therapist and a patient qualifies as special relationship and carries a duty to warn others of risks posed by the patient. Id. However, the circumstances under which a therapist may be responsible for a patient’s conduct toward a third party is limited. A therapist must make a reasonable effort to warn the potential victim or victims or a law enforcement agency only if a patient communicates to the therapist a serious threat of physical violence to a reasonably identifiable victim or victims. Cal. Civ. Code § 43.92(a) (West 2007). —  General rules (the first stop) —  The Blue Pages (the second stop) —  The Index (when you don’t know where to look) —  The Tables (for very specific citation information) Name of Case
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Tarasoff v. Regents of Univ. of Cal., 551 P.2d 334, 341 (Cal. 1976)
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2 Cal.3d 956, 471 P.2d 988, 88 Cal.Rptr. 188 (Cite as: 2 Cal.3d 956, 471 P.2d 988, 88 Cal.Rptr. 188) Supreme Court of California, In Bank. Eugene C. HINMAN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent; CITY OF LOS ANGELES, Intervener and Appellant. L.A. 29740. THE ANSWER July 30, 1970. Hinman v. Westinghouse Elec. Co. Try to derive the correct case name from the caption below on your own. Do not check the answer (on the next slide) until you have tried. Remember to check for abbreviations in Table 6 and other case name rules in Rule 10.2: ALBERT DeMIRJIAN et al., Appellants, v. IDEAL HEATING CORPORATION (a Corporation), Respondent Civ. No. 20282 Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Three 129 Cal. App. 2d 758; 278 P.2d 114; 1954 Cal. App. LEXIS 1670 December 23, 1954 Answer = DeMirjian v. Ideal Heating Corp. Derived From this Caption: ALBERT DeMIRJIAN et al., Appellants, v. IDEAL HEATING CORPORATION (a Corporation), Respondent HOW TO CREATE NARRATED
POWERPOINTS
Recap of Steps
•  Copy text from word file, internet, etc. and paste into slide
•  Select “insert” from top menu
•  Select “audio”
•  Select “record audio”
•  Click on red dot
•  Talk
•  Click on blue box to stop and then hit “ok”
•  Resize icon by clicking on it and dragging arrows to right size
•  Move icon to where you want it by clicking and dragging
DISTRIBUTING NARRATED
POWERPOINTS
•  Zip file
•  TWEN
•  Internal streaming/URL (e-mail or post the
link)
•  Dropbox (use share file feature)
CONNECTING POWERPOINTS
TO THE CLASSROOM
•  Tell them that you will not lecture
•  Explain the pedagogy
•  Cold-calling to recap content at start of class
•  Exercises with peers that require the
knowledge of the content
•  Have them hand-in a summary or questions
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
•  I like that I can listen to just the parts I need
to later
•  I prefer to listen to the slides first and then
read the text for more detail
•  It’s better than lecture because I can listen to
it again whenever I want
•  I like that it frees up class to practice what we
learn