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PROFESSOR: So we're really excited about Highlights for High School. We're excited to see how it's used. There was an email that arrived by early this morning from China, celebrating this new portal, and it's an exciting new chapter. We can't end the program without a special acknowledgment of OCW's many financial supporters and without whom it simply couldn't have been possible for MIT to develop OCW. And it won't be possible for us to sustain in the future except for their help. Among our many individual donors have been several MIT alumni who take pride in what OCW stands for, pride in MIT's tradition of sharing what we have with the world. I want to especially thank Jon Gruber from the class of 1964 and Larry Birenbaum, the class of 1969, for their leadership gifts that will help to endow OCW. Generous support for Highlights for High School, I just mentioned, Charlene and [? Dary ?] Kabcenell and [? Barry ?] and [? Stacey ?] [? Newm...

so uh I'm really pleased that we're able to have our speaker with us today John Goen Center John is the director of one of the science impact centers at Santa Gesa University and his Center is the indigenous Knowledge Center uh for Education hypen science impact it's part of the USGS science impact uh program and so John will present what for many of us is probably a different way of looking at the world so I won't take up any more time and and uh let John presentation you're not I'm not all right well U okay am I am I there okay well U personally I first of all I want to thank everybody for being here uh makes me feel very good even when I had the invitation I was like Wow gee you know I didn't realize what I had spoken about at the rest in Virginia already had a science impact but no I'm really honored really honored in fact uh speaking with some of my colleagues about the opportunity to uh go to another University and and present on beha...

LORNA GIBSON: So really the way I set up the lectures is I write out notes for myself of what I want to cover, and the notes are pretty detailed. And in the past I always just had the notes for me. And even though they were reasonably neat and I could read them, I didn't hand them out to the students. But because I've turned my fall course into an MITx course and I want to make the lecture notes available for that, when I was doing that course for MITx I made really nice notes. And a friend of mine who lectures, I was asking her how she did it, and she said she actually goes and measures the chalkboard, and she measures the aspect ratio, how tall to wide the chalkboard is. And then she sets up her notes so that they're the same aspect ratio, and she plans out exactly where she's going to put everything on the board on her notes. And so I started doing that. And when I'm doing the lecture I put it all on the board, and I find a lot of students-- even th...