Comments on: Teaching with a microphone http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/ Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University Mon, 06 May 2013 04:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Claire http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/#comment-249 Claire Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:38:18 +0000 http://www.glencora.org/?p=749#comment-249 As it happens, I have another microphone story coming up in my blog
in a couple of days… but I’m glad your first experience was
positive. At first I didn’t like the idea for the following reasons:

1. Attachment to what is “natural”: I thought that microphones were
artificial and created a distance between me and the students, a
hierarchy: she who hold the microphone has the power! Power to drown
out every sound.

2. Swagger: having had voice lessons in the past, I thought that I
knew how to let my voice carry across large spaces without injuring
my vocal chords.

But it turned out that students complained about not hearing me. My
way of protecting my vocal chords turned out to involve speaking much
more softly than they needed me to.

So I gave in and started using the microphone, and, o surprise,
enjoying it!

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