In a series of two studies, Schacter and Szpunar split a twenty -
minute lecture into four five - minute segments.
Not exact matches
Each course runs only over a few weeks and is chopped up
into short video
lectures of 15
minutes or so.
In between it offers, among other things, meditations on Spanish architecture and landscapes, an outdoor concert where the conductor is on an elevated platform in a shopping arcade and the musicians are on nearby balconies, a lavish state party thrown for the novelist, a verbal chess match at the party, a credit sequence 20 - odd
minutes into the film, a concert inside a cathedral, extended lovemaking, a recitation of part of the novelist's book, an opera performed at a gigantic fish market, a university
lecture on algae, another opera set (though not staged) in a Turkish bath, a TV interview, a meal prepared and eaten by the three lovers, a film screening, and a plane trying to extinguish a forest fire.
If time were brought
into it, it would be found that every 5
minutes from the end of the
lecture, less and less is retained.
If a
lecture is broken
into 10 -
minute chunks, followed by a question or two, the change can bring students back to attention.
After the
lecture, the group divided
into three rooms to practice delivering their two
minute pitch directly to either Mr. Kosberg; Keith Ogorek, Senior VP of Global Marketing for Author Solutions; or Caroline Weiss, Author Solutions» Director of New Media.
After the
lecture, the authors were separated
into three different rooms where everyone had two
minutes to deliver their pitch to Robert, Keith or Danny.
Two or three
minutes into any of his
lectures, he would seem to levitate six inches off the floor.
Two
minutes into a
lecture about how climate sceptics misrepresent the the science for political ends, and Oreskes has herself done precisely that.