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 products, TurningPoint provides plug-ins for Microsoft Office to let you insert questions into your documents, but it only works with MS Office 2004 for Mac. The TurningPointAnywhere software gives you a response indicator that “floats” on your desktop and isn’t linked to any software, so you can use it with questions in any format, including questions written on the chalkboard. The short video tutorials are available at http://www.turningtechnologies.com/audienceresponsecommunity/tutorials.cfm
The live training also sounds very promising, and I plan to attend a couple of them in the next two weeks to see how they are. I’ve attended live online training from TurningTechnologies in the past, and it was always very good. The schedule and registration links are available at http://www.turningtechnologies.com/audienceresponsecommunity/onlinetraining.cfm
These new support offerings will be a nice complement to the short training videos that we have posted at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/computing/teaching_resources/clickers/resources
I have to wonder if TurningTechnologies got the idea from us, because I showed our sales rep our videos about a year ago, and she thought they were a great idea. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in this case, a form that is helpful to our users, too!
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