The document summarizes a book created by the Terrific Tech Trainers to help university faculty incorporate the use of i>Clickers (student response systems) into their classrooms. The book uses the Understanding by Design (UbD) instructional approach and was created with CAST's Bookbuilder software. It is divided into three parts that provide an overview of i>Clickers, research on the benefits of using them, and tutorials for setting them up for classroom use. The goal is to convince professors to adopt i>Clickers by addressing their benefits and showing how to implement them effectively.

1. The Use of i>Clickers by University
Faculty in Traditional Classroom
Settings
Sherry Grosso
Sheena McDaniel
Catherine Murphy

2. Overview
The Terrific Tech Trainers decided to create a book to
help university faculty incorporate the use of i>Clickers
into their classroom.
We found the UbD (Understanding by Design) approach
to instructional design interesting and chose this
approach to develop our book using CAST's
Bookbuilder.

3. Why UbD?

Analyzes target learners asking the questions:
‘Why do we need to learn this?’
‘Why do we need to know this?’
'Why does this matter to me?'

Moves beyond basic knowledge to understanding
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Teaches learners how to use the information

4. Why UbD? (cont.)

Teaches learners how to apply the information, not
just know it

Asks the enduring question – What do we really
want target learners to know and be able to do?

Has the end in mind when designing the instruction
– a backwards approach to instructional design

Focuses on performance based assessment

5. Goal
The goal of the book is to entice professors to use i>Clickers
in their classroom by:

Addressing the benefits of use in the university
classroom

Motivating them to use clickers based on scholarly
research

Showing them appropriate/suggested uses

Teaching them how to use i>clickers

6. About the Book
Created using CAST's Bookbuilder, the book:
•
Provides audio, visual aids, and text for the
reader
•
Provides audio by 3 'coaches': Techie Tom,
Dr. Hootman, and Clicker Carol, each with
distinct roles in implementing instruction.
•
Includes scholastic references as well as
interesting links to videos to supplement
the text in the book.
Dr. Hootman
Clicker Carol
Techie Tom

7. What is BOOKBUILDER?

Website used to create, publish, and share digital books
using UDL (Universal Design Learning)

Based on CAST's research related to three primary brain
networks (recognition network, strategic network, and
affective network) and the roles they play in understanding
these differences

Provides a framework to create and implement lessons
with flexible goals, methods, materials, and assessments
that support learning for all learners

8. The Book Part I:
All About Clickers
This section of the book
provides general information
about 'Clickers':

What are clickers?

What are their features?

What is their purpose in the
classroom?

9. The Book Part II:
Reasons to Use Clickers
Provides the reader with detailed reasons why they should
use clickers and provides motivation to use them with
references to scholarly research on their enhancement to
student learning

10. The Book Part III:
How to Use i>Clickers
This section provides
university instructors with
information and tutorials
on how to order and set up
i>Clickers (a specific brand
of Clickers) for use in the
classroom.

11. We hope you enjoy the book!
Please read the book by clicking on the link on the
“Implementation” page of this wiki.
When you have completed the book, please take the
time to fill out the evaluation form located on the
“Evaluation” page of this wiki to help the Terrific Tech
Trainers evaluate their instruction.