Microsoft Makes Some Real Mischief in the Classroom
Have you seen the new product (in beta) from Microsoft called Mouse Mischief? I heard about it on Twitter a few weeks …
Clickers + the State of the Union Address
Here’s a nice follow-up to my previous post about backchannel use during live performances. Over at Abilene Christian University, where all the …
Backchannel in Education – Nine Uses
I wanted to share some additional thoughts on Cliff Atkinson’s new book, The Backchannel, and its implications for higher education. As I …
The Backchannel by Cliff Atkinson
Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points, has a new book out, The Backchannel, from New Riders Press (publishers of Garr Reynolds’ …
Does Teaching with Clickers Foster Student Participation?
University of British Columbia professor of earth and ocean sciences Roland Stull recently gave his popular course on the science of storms …
Five Types of Mobile Learning
As Abilene Christian University rolls through year two of its iPhone experiment, ProfHacker (my new favorite blog) features a post by Jason …
Cell Phones as Clickers on the World’s Technology Podcast
Note: I’ve had a couple of problems with this blog recently–the RSS feed stopped working and I haven’t had any time to …
iPods All Around
My last couple of blog posts here have focused on pedagogical possibilities of a class full of students with smart phones or …
LectureTools and Placemark Questions
There were a lot of mentions on Twitter the other day of the recent Campus Technology article “Fostering Classroom Interaction, Minus the …
Classroom Response Systems in Literature Courses
Since the ConnectEd Summit at Abilene Christian University in the spring, I’ve been thinking about ways to use smart phones as “super-clickers” …