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Clickers
Clickers are small, handheld devices that students use to answer questions. They are used in the classroom to increase engagement during lectures, conduct quizzes or surveys, and for a host of other activities. Clicker vendors provide software that facilitates the creation of questions, presentations and response data reports. The mechanics of using a clicker typically involves the instructor asking a question (e.g., in a PowerPoint presentation), and student responses being received through an infrared or RF receiver (though infrared is largely obsolete). |
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Links
Click the links at the top of this page or in the list below to navigate to different sections of this site. This site contains the following information:
For Students
- How to Acquire and Return Your Clicker
- How to Register Your Clicker
- How to Use a Clicker in Class
- How to Take a Test with a Clicker
For Instructors
- Getting Started Using TurningPoint within PowerPoint to create question slides
- Importing a Class Roster How to get a roster that can be used in TurningPoint to associate student information with their responses.
- Best Practices: Recommendations from the LTC as well as links to resources from the UW-System Clicker Project, Educause, other institutions and scholarly journals.
- Archive of the UWGB Clicker Evaluation: A detailed matrix of criteria we used to evaluate the three clicker vendors, as well as a pro/con list.
- Brown Bag Recap: On Friday, March 28, 2008 the LTC and the instructors who participated in the pilot semester, in conjunction with the Instructional Development Council, facilitated a "brown bag" presentation about clickers.
Turning Technologies
The University of Wisconsin Green Bay supports Turning Technologies' TurningPoint software and XR Response Pad clickers. Visit the company website at www.turningtechnologies.com.