How to teach with these materials
These materials are made so that a teacher who has never taught computer vision can give a good class after about one hour of preparation.
What each lecture gives you
- Slides that work in any modern web browser. You do not need to install anything.
- Speaker notes for every slide: what to say, what to ask, and where students get confused. You see them in the presenter view and on the teaching guide page.
- A plan for a 100-minute class, with a time for every slide.
- Background for the teacher. It goes deeper than the slides, so you can answer students' questions.
- Common mistakes students make, questions for the class, and exercises, all with answers.
Preparing a lecture (about one hour)
- Read the teaching guide once, from top to bottom, including the background part.
- Click through the slides with the presenter view open (press S). Read each slide's notes aloud. This is almost a practice class.
- Decide which part you will make shorter if you run out of time. Each guide gives a suggestion.
- If the lecture has live code, run it once on the computer you will use in class.
Presenting the slides
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| → or Space | Next slide, or next point on the slide |
| ← | Previous slide |
| F | Full screen |
| S | Presenter view in a new window: this slide, the next slide, the notes and a timer. Put it on your laptop screen and the slides on the projector. |
| O or Esc | See all slides at once, and jump to any slide |
| B or . | Black screen, so students look at you or the board |
| Alt + click | Zoom into part of a slide |
The presenter view opens as a pop-up window. If your browser blocks pop-ups, allow them for this site. To print the slides or save them as a PDF, use the "Print slides" link on a lecture page. Then choose "Save as PDF", set the margins to none, and turn on background graphics.
A teaching style that works
- Ask before you tell. Most slides have a question in the notes. Ask it before you show the answer. Students think more and copy less.
- Draw on the board. The notes say which pictures are worth drawing by hand. Students follow a drawing that grows step by step better than a finished slide.
- Keep the activities. If you run out of time, cut background slides, not the group activities.
- Connect back. Each lecture uses ideas from earlier lectures on purpose. Point this out.
- Use local examples. Use examples from your students' city and from Indonesian industry. The notes suggest where.
- Mix languages if it helps. The slides are in simple English, but you can explain in Bahasa Indonesia. Keep the technical words in English, because students will meet them in books, papers and code.
Changing and sharing the materials
The text, slides, speaker notes and our own diagrams use the CC BY 4.0 license. You may copy, translate, cut and change them for your teaching, also in paid courses, if you give credit to this site.
Photos and figures from books and from other people are not covered by this license. Each one has a credit line under it. Keep the credit when you reuse a slide. Check the original license before you use a picture somewhere else.
Each lecture can be taught alone, but the order of the course builds ideas step by step. Each lecture is about 100 minutes. For 50-minute classes, split it at the black section slides.