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Classroom Response System ("Clickers") Book Review and Discussion Lunch & Learn 7/22/2010. Teaching with Classroom Response Systems b y Derek Bruff, ISBN 978-0-470-28893www.joseyass.com Bibliography b y Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
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Classroom Response System ("Clickers") Book Review and DiscussionLunch & Learn 7/22/2010 • Teaching with Classroom Response Systems by Derek Bruff, • ISBN 978-0-470-28893www.joseyass.com • Bibliography by Derek Bruff, Assistant Director, Vanderbilt Center for Teaching • http://www.vanderbilt.edu/cft/resources/teaching_resources/technology/crs_biblio.htm Note to open hyperlinks… click on it!
Classroom Response System Q: How would you advocate the use of clickers in classes at Life University?http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/24/bruff
Classroom Response System Q: Do you see any inappropriate uses of clickers in classrooms? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/24/bruff
Classroom Response System • Benefit: the ability to collect student feedback rapidly • Benefit: the ability for students to respond anonymously to questions • http://tomprofblog.mit.edu/2010/06/16/1033-sixteen-suggestions-for-teaching-with-classroom-response-systems/ • “Sixteen Suggestions for Teaching with Classroom Response Systems” • discusses reasons to teach with clickers • highlighting the unique capabilities of these response systems to enable classroom experiences that are difficult to achieve without clickers • enhance other teaching methods that can be use with or without clickers
Classroom Response System • Track participation and assign points to students using clickers. • Student points, attendance, etc. can then be uploaded into the Blackboard Gradebook. • Students register their clicker remote in the Blackboard course. • Add a statement to your syllabus about students registering clickers in Blackboard • http://www.northeastern.edu/edtech/howdoi/integrating_clickers_classroom_northeastern_university
Classroom Response System • More Resources http://www.northeastern.edu/edtech/tags/tutorial • Parody of 'The Office' to Highlight Challenges of Teaching With Technologyhttp://chronicle.com/blogPost/Class-Produces-Parody-of-The/21169/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en