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Using Clicker Systems for Classroom Interactivity
For those who couldn’t make it to this week’s session on using ‘Clickers’ in teaching and learning, I thought it would be worth making the session notes available.
The notes introduce Clicker systems, how they are used, benefits and challenges related to their use, and practical information on using them in the Edge Hill University context.
Peter Beaumont
Learning Technologist
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Monday 8th October 2012: Using Clicker Systems for Classroom Interactivity
The next session in The Digital Classroom series of staff development events will be an overview of using Clicker systems (such as TurningPoint and Optivote) with your students. It will take place between 1:00 and 2:00pm on Monday the 8th October 2012, at the Ormskirk campus.You can book on the session by going to the Staff Development section of the Human Resources wiki.
Clickers are also known as Audience Response systems and are used in a variety of ways, with aims such as increasing engagement, allowing students to answer questions in class anonymously, to check understanding of concepts, or to start group discussions.
In this session we look at examples of the use of Clickers, explore reported benefits and challenges related to some of their uses, and ensure that you know how you could get started using these systems (for example Optivote and TurningPoint) at Edge Hill University.
Peter Beaumont
Learning Technologist
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New Blackboard – new Browser required
Are you missing links from the top of your Blackboard page – such as ‘Learning Edge Homepage’? Do you see something like this:
If so, you are probably using Internet Explorer 7 on a PC – and will have difficulty accessing many of the facilities such as returning to the GO Portal or your Blackboard home page.
Here are two easy fixes: download and install either (even both!) the Firefox or Chrome browser from these links:
Download
Google Chrome
Download
Mozilla Firefox
The Learning Technology Development Division of Learning Services
