Archive for the 'Clickers' Category

Spring 2010 Clicker Training

November 18th, 2009

Beginning in February, we will begin our next round of clicker training, covering basic and advanced uses of clickers, the pedagogy behind clickers, and integrating ICON with clickers.  For more information, please visit the ITS website at: http://its.uiowa.edu/support/srs/training.shtml
Upcoming dates:
Beginning clickers: February 2nd: 9:00 – 11:00am and March 29th: 1:30 – 3:30pm
Advanced clickers: February 11th: 1:30 [...]

December training on Clickers and ICON

November 4th, 2009

This course will explain how to export your clicker question results from TurningPoint in a form that can be imported into your ICON grade book. We will spend the first hour walking through the steps of the export/import process using the D2L export format. The second hour will be open for you to bring your own session [...]

Derek Bruff’s Blog on Teaching with Clickers

November 4th, 2009

We recomend checking out Derek Bruff’s blog: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems if you would like more information about using clickers in your courses.  The blog provides a wealth of ideas for using clickers from a number of instructors from a variety of fields.

UI Clicker User Group Meeting – January

November 4th, 2009

Our next UI clicker users group meeting will be held on January 22nd from 1:00 to 3:30pm in the University Captiol Centre, room 2390 (which is located at the top of the escalator near T-Spoons).
Presenting will be Wayne Jacobson (UI Assessment Coordinator).  More details about his presentation will follow.
We would like to thank those of [...]

New version of clicker software available

October 13th, 2009

Make sure to upgrade your office or personal computer to the latest version of TurningPoint 2008, version 4.2. It can be found on the ITS support website under the Downloads section. Remember: you will need to uninstall the older version before installing the 4.2 version.

First UI Clicker User Group meeting

October 13th, 2009

Our first UI Clicker User Group meeting will be held on October 23rd from 1:00-3:30pm in the University Capitol Centre, Room 2390, located in the ITS department.

Clicking with your students

January 8th, 2008

We had a workshop (of this title) on the use of personal response systems (ie clickers) last spring.  Craig Kletzing and I talked about our efforts using this technology.  Since then, Annette Beck from ITS-Instructional Services has done a fantastic job digging into this technology.  She has created a website that summarizes what she’s learned about [...]