Thursday, April 26

Matt Strand
Adj. Asst. Prof, UCLA Dept. of Statistics

Using computer presentation packages in the classroom

Abstract: Classrooms are becoming more and more equipped with advanced
multimedia technology.  In some rooms, Internet-capable computers and data
projectors are built-in, making use of these tools easy and convenient.
(Generally, these tools can be obtained without a cost for rooms that do not
have such equipment.)  One way to use the computer in the classroom is to
present lectures using a "presentation package."  This is especially useful
for material that involves complex graphs or a lot of description that would
ordinarily take quite a bit of time to write on the blackboard.  There are
pro's and con's of the computer-lecture approach, which will be discussed in
this seminar.

Matt is currently an adjunct assistant professor at
UCLA, where he teaches undergraduate statistics courses for the Statistics
Department.  He obtained his B.S. in math and statistics ('89) and M.S. in
statistics ('91) from Colorado State University, and Ph.D. in statistics
from Kansas State University ('98).