- Title
- From PowerPoint to Zoom: Interrogating the Gaze in Teaching at a Small South African University
- Creator
- Dalvit, Lorenzo
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468184
- Identifier
- vital:77028
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781003275060
- Identifier
- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003275060-4/powerpoint-zoom-lorenzo-dalvit
- Description
- I teach Digital Media and Cultural Studies at a small residential university in South Africa. Due to retinal degeneration, I had to progressively move away from paper documents and increasingly rely on electronic tools and resources as well as a student assistant. In this chapter, I draw on the concept of the gaze as understood within the critical tradition to reflect on my journey with a specific focus on teaching. The departing and arrival stations of such a journey are PowerPoint presentations (which students have come to expect as part of a lecture) and Zoom meetings (which have become part of our new normal as a result of emergency remote teaching). Using PowerPoint reverses the power dynamics in the classroom. Rather than each student facing the all-seeing lecturer, I am placed under scrutiny as I try to memorise my presentation and rely on my assistant to keep up with the slides and alert me of questions. In our context, virtual lectures via Zoom are audio-only due to bandwidth constraints. My screen reader notifies me when students raise their hand and tells me who they are. I can also use earphones to listen to my own notes on a second device, which I found very empowering
- Format
- 9 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Dalvit, L., 2022. From PowerPoint to Zoom: Interrogating the Gaze in Teaching at a Small South African University. In Finding Blindness (pp. 19-27). Routledge
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