Archive for May, 2009

New tutorials and training for “clickers”

Just in time for preparations for Fall courses, TurningTechnologies has released new video tutorials and live online training sessions for their audience response systems, commonly called “clickers”.  We have standardized on TurningTechnologies’ ResponseCardRF system, which uses the TurningPoint and TurningPointAnywhere software for PC and Mac.  
If you’re not familiar with the difference between the two [...]


Student privacy in a public world

In a previous post, I described some free, commercial tools that instructors and students can use for creating web sites for course projects. But planning a web project requires more than just finding the right technology platform. As an instructor, you  need to consider what type of material is – and is not [...]