After a bit of reflection I decided to add a few quiz questions to the session.
This did actually help in the session, because the students were very reluctant to speak (though occasionally they did speak). I was very pleased I made this change, because it forced some interactivity.
The session ran to 1 hour 20 minutes. I liked the fact that I managed to review some of the astronomy whilst discussing revision and study skills.
I spotted a couple of minor issues with slides and corrected them afterwards (a version of the file is here . The spray diagram example needs to be replaced next time with either an electronic version or (probably better) a hand drawn diagram with much thicker lines.
There was some technical difficulty for me at the start of the session. I had planned to use my Tablet PC to write on the whiteboard during the session. I also wanted the benefit of my large monitor. However this took me down a path of screen resolution and orientation problems, culminating in the microphone button (conveniently located at the bottom of the Elluminate window) being off the bottom of my screen. I had to settle for just using the monitor.
[4 April 2013]