Audience response devices, or Clickers, are designed to actively engage students during the entire class period, gauge students’ level of understanding of presented material, and provide prompt feedback to the instructor. Neat article on it’s use in classroom. Polling Options As an instructor, you can create instant polling questions from Web content, PDF’s, Microsoft Office products, … Read more
To this blog, as it has been publishing now for 9 years. Through Blackboard, SABA/Centra, Mediasite, Turning Point and more upgrades as well as hurricanes, ice and flu and many changes over the years. Today I will highlight some of the features available after our most recent upgrades. Blackboard – Accessibility rating with Ally, multi … Read more
Clickers, polling, audience response systems are great ways to create interactivity in the classroom, keep the students awake and find out just how much they are listening/understanding. Turning Point Cloud is loaded on all classroom computers in our building and to use it for anonymous polling you just can go to Tools in your Blackboard … Read more
Clickers have been a great tool to quiz students and the software is available in all classrooms. I have lots of clickers in my cabinet and you don’t have the students sign up if you are doing anonymous polling. You don’t have to get a license just sign up for a free Instructor account. Some … Read more
Many faculty have used Turning Point with PowerPoint but did you know that you can poll using Anywhere Polling part of the Turning Point 5 Dashboard. Using clickers and a receiver Anywhere Polling lets you poll atop web page, videos, documents of any application using a floating interactive toolbar. Set up a series of generic … Read more
Are they listening, do they understand, blank stares? Why not “test” their knowledge unanimously with clickers! Turning Point software is installed in all classrooms and OET has many clickers to loan. Works on both Mac and PC’s, try it out!!
Add interactivity to your Power Point presentations. Our Clickers (aka Audience Response Systems or just think of Millionaire’s Poll the Audience!) will allow you to put short, multiple choice questions in a Power Point presentation and get response from the students. The students think it’s fun and you can see where you may need to … Read more