9/25 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 10:30 am to 3 pm
It’s not a coincidence that our symposium has the same name as this blog! Several regular bloggers here are involved and we hope all of you will join us.
Explore teaching with new media through faculty insights, hands-on exploration of four technologies and an overview of new [...]
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 [...]
Getting students engaged using “clickers”
Audience Response Systems, or “clickers”, are an increasingly popular way to get students in large lecture courses engaged both with the material and with their fellow students. More than a dozen courses across the University are using clickers this semester, with 10 courses and more than 1500 students using them in SAS alone.
These clickers allow [...]
