What if the students’ responses are not showing on my slides?

For TurningPoint Clickers: There are two things you will want to check out first: First, check to make sure that there are no Custom Animations in your PowerPoint slides. If you have put in custom animations like “fly in on click,” you can view and remove them from the Animations tab: From the Animations tab […]

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What is Turning Point?

TurningPoint is a company that makes student response systems and has two capabilities: hardware based ‘clickers’ and software-based (mobile phone, tablet or laptop) responses. The system can be used with both technologies active at once. The mobile/laptop specific feature of TurningPoint’s offering is called ResponseWare. ResponseWare will permit students to interact in the same ways […]

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Clickers: Best Practices

  “Classroom response systems, or “clickers,” are instructional technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze students’ responses to multiple-choice and free-response questions during class.” -Derek Bruff Derek Bruff’s Clicker Blog – “Agile Learning” Derek’s blog has great tips for instructors who are interested in using Clickers in the classroom.  Check out his blog […]

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