One of the goodies I picked up at last week's MER workshop was a paper entitled Tips for Teachers: Twenty Ways to Make Lectures More Participatory. It was put out by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (Harvard's answer to CIDR), and I think it's pretty interesting. Not all twenty tips are applicable, unless you're up for a debate on the ethical system underlying the Mean Value Theorem, but a number are. I found several which I have used either directly or in variations, and I suspect that there are a bunch of others which others of you have used. We will therefore have a participatory brown bag on participatory lectures.

We will meet at noon on Thursday, December 1 in the Math Lounge. In case anyone wants to sneak a peek at the article in question, I plan to have a batch of copies in some fetching pastel shade sitting in a relatively obvious place in the lounge by Tuesday or thereabouts.