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2022 - 10 - 17

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Taking photos of slides helps students remember (UC Riverside)

Taking camera-phone pictures of instructional slides helped students better retain content, not only for the slide information, but also for spoken-word ...

The study did not determine why the photo-taking helps ; Ditta said that will be addressed in a planned follow-up study. In both experiments of the two-part study, students were asked not to study the photographs before testing. But Ditta’s is the first study that specifically considered the lecture slides students photograph as part of their academic studies. In the second experiment, half of the 108 study participants could photograph their choice of slides, as long as they photographed about half. Half took photos of the even-numbered slides; half took photos of the odd-numbered slides. A first-of-its-kind study answers the question, finding that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides they did not photograph.

Photo-taking helps students remember slide content: Taking camera ... (Science Daily)

A new study finds that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides ...

"They were wrong about that," Ditta said regarding the spoken content findings of the second experiment. The study did not determine why the photo-taking helps ; Ditta said that will be addressed in a planned follow-up study. In the second experiment, half of the 108 study participants could photograph their choice of slides, as long as they photographed about half. In both experiments of the two-part study, students were asked not to study the photographs before testing. But Ditta's is the first study that specifically considered the lecture slides students photograph as part of their academic studies. A first-of-its-kind study answers the question, finding that taking pictures of PowerPoint slides during an online presentation helped students remember the slide content better than for slides they did not photograph.

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Seeking 'Rapid Fire Research' Presenters: Four Minutes, Four ... (usu.edu)

During Science Week 2022, USU's Science Council invites Aggie scholars of all majors to apply to present their.

I had the idea, with the Rapid Fire event, to create an opportunity where students could practice communicating their ideas to a broad audience while learning about all the different kinds of research Aggies are doing.” [Science Week activities](https://www.usu.edu/science/week) Oct. “A talk at that event by Caltech professor Yison Yue really stuck with me,” says Santana, currently a graduate student in mathematics at Caltech. “This is a friendly, supportive atmosphere, where students can practice their presentation skills and get inspired.” “We held a in the

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Taking pictures of slides helps students in remembering the ... (Gulf News)

Study published in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

"They were wrong about that," Ditta said regarding the spoken content findings of the second experiment. The study did not determine why the photo-taking helps; Ditta said that will be addressed in a planned follow-up study. In the second experiment, half of the 108 study participants could photograph their choice of slides, as long as they photographed about half. In both experiments of the two-part study, students were asked not to study the photographs before testing. But Ditta's is the first study that specifically considered the lecture slides students photograph as part of their academic studies. Half took photos of the even-numbered slides; half took photos of the odd-numbered slides.

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