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Student Response Systems @RUL
Student response systems we have at Regent’s are:
‒Turning Technologies
‒Blackboard Survey/Quizzes
‒Poll Everywhere
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Reasons to use student response
systems:
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A Really Quick Guide to Student Response Systems
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Further Exploration
Here are two great presentations (45 minutes and 1 hour) that explore
the pedagogy of using student response systems. If this is a topic that
you are interested in trying, then watching these videos are worth your
time.
‒TurningPoint: Where Pedagogy Meets Practice - This playlist
explores using TurningPoint clickers, which are primarily multiple
choice questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_FEKpbKEyw8&list=PL7DABF9AB862CA8ED&index=1
‒Eric Mazur: Catalyzing Learning Using Learning Catalytics - In this
presentation, Dr. Eric Mazur from Harvard University explores the
different question types options of Learning Catalytics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQzYPQp9EDc
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to engage all of your students in class activity at the same time (especially in a large class)
to provide opportunities for students to check their understanding
for the instructor to be able to immediately measure student understanding--not just the few students that speak up
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
This video provides a quick overview of uses for student response systems such as clickers and how they work. This video has been created by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at the University of Saskatchewan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 2.5 Canada License.
https://youtu.be/naCloNYRzkw
This is extremely common at conferences, but is becoming increasingly popular in classrooms.
Essentially, all you need to do is ask your students to submit questions and comments via Twitter by adding a specific hashtag to their tweets.
This hashtag should be something unique to your class, e.g. #ilt_usask or #psych120sk. To view the comments you search the hashtag on Twitter.