Blog Post #7

Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon who is dying of liver cancer. We watched his video entitled Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. In this video he uses many different teaching methods and techniques.
One of these techniques is using visual aid, where he provides slide shows with pictures, text, and other things to help get his point across. He uses graphs and statisics and he also brings items as visual aids as well. He is also a very interactive teacher in that he knows what he is talking about, he explains to everyone unfamiliar topics in a way that that is easy to comprehend, and he also gets the crowd involved and keeps them involved by being so interactive.
He covers his topics in a very thorough way. He presents his main points and goes into depth with each point while providing many examples of how he accomplished these points. For example in talking his goals, he presents his goals then he shows how he has gone through his life doing things that he loved and how he as a person has accomplished his goals with many opportunities. These opportunities come in the form of working at places like disney, flying with his students, and even meeting his role models in life.
He also uses audio/video during his presentation. He showed videos of his virtual projects his students worked on and showed and explained the technology that he was using. The video helped to give evidence of the actual technology that he was using during his virtual projects.