Lunch & Learn: Clickers in the Classroom - Pedagogical Best Practices
In fall 2010, i>clicker was chosen as the campus standard for personal response systems. i>clicker is a classroom polling tool that offers intuitive software, a polling overlay for any application, registration integrated with Sakai, on-the-fly polling, anonymous participation option, and support of web-enabled devices.
A community project has been created where educators can share ideas and knowledge about clicker usage. To acquire access to the Clickers@UD project, please contact Academic Technology Services.
This interactive workshop hosted at Penn state for faculty and staff interested in getting the most out of in-class student response systems (clickers) had over ## participants. The speaker is Professor Mary Beth Kramer, Instructor of Chemistry at University of Delaware, who utilizes clickers in both large and small classes. Among the subjects the workshop will cover are the following:
- Writing good clicker questions
- Utilizing "peer instruction" and other types of questions
- Best practices when implementing clickers
- Assigning different kinds of points for answering questions
This workshop is ideal for both first-time clicker adopters as well as experienced users.
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