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Utilizing iClickers in Your Classroom

Utilizing iClickers in Your Classroom. Edward Jacobs Jr., Senior Educational Technologist Academic Affairs – Educational Technology Center jacobse@mscd.edu (303-556-3600). Let’s Get Started. Please press the Power Button on your clicker and you should have a blue light glowing for power.

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Utilizing iClickers in Your Classroom

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  1. Utilizing iClickers in Your Classroom Edward Jacobs Jr., Senior Educational Technologist Academic Affairs – Educational Technology Center jacobse@mscd.edu (303-556-3600)

  2. Let’s Get Started • Please press the Power Button on your clicker and you should have a blue light glowing for power. If you press any other buttons, the vote status light will display red until voting has been started by the instructor.

  3. First Question:What is your level of experience with clickers • A – I have taught with clickers • B – I have had some experience with clickers • C – I have seen a clicker before • D – I have heard of clickers • E – What is a clicker? Clue: There is no right answer

  4. Today’s Agenda • Metro State’s Implementation • Uses of clickers in the classroom • Non-classroom use of clickers (Faculty Senate) • What do you need to get started (demo) • Additional Resources

  5. Metro State Implementation • Spring 2011 • 1192 Clickers ordered (1038 purchased) • 24 Courses (AES, CJC, GEL, HES, NUT, PHY) • Student Purchases • Faculty Instructor Kits • Departmental owned clickers • Training resources

  6. Question # 2:Metropolitan State College was founded in ___? • A – 1962 • B – 1963 • C – 1964 • D – 1965 • E – 1966 Clue: The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock.

  7. Uses of clickers in the classroom • Foster class discussion and create interactivity • Increase class participation • Take class temperature after a mini-lecture • Attendance points • Quizzes and/or exams

  8. Non-Classroom Usage • 1 Meeting (77 Senators) • 40 Second Votes • Easily convert votes to Mean Scores in Excel. • 2-3 Meetings • Paper Ballots • Recounts • Tallying and Data Analysis Source: http://www.mscd.edu/senate/

  9. What do you need to get started • Obtain a iClicker Base • (Optional) Download blackboard roster • Students Register iClickers • Sync Web iClicker Registrations • Start Clicking!

  10. How familiar are you with Photographic F-Stops? • A – Fully Understand F-stops • B – I think I understand F-stops • C – I am confident in using F-Stops • D – F-stops What? Clue: The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock.

  11. Which F-Stop would you use in a dark gym • A – F 0.0 • B – F 2.8 • C – F 16 • D – F 32

  12. Additional Resources • Educause's 7 Things you should know http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf • Transforming Student Learning with Classroom Clickershttp://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0403.pdf • UBuffalo – Questionshttp://ubtlc.buffalo.edu/clickers/DesigningClickerQuestions/CITpresentationClickerQuestions.pdf • Designing Questionshttp://www.nau.edu/d-elearn/support/tutorials/clickers/designingQuestions.php

  13. Questions? Edward Jacobs Jr Senior Educational Technologist Academic Affairs – Educational Technology Center Metropolitan State College of Denver 303-556-3600 jacobse@mscd.edu http://www.mscd.edu/iclicker Presentation: http://www.mscd.edu/iclicker/elcc2011.ppt

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