Student Notetaking for Recall and Understanding: A Lit Review Review
I’m giving a talk on sketchnotes in the classroom next week at Indiana University. (I’m following John (Engaging Ideas) Bean in their …
Teaching Math with Clickers: I Liked Getting the Wrong Answer Anonymously
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
TechnoCATs: Classroom Assessment Techniques with Clickers
Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are simple, non-graded, usually anonymous, in-class activities designed to give you and your students useful feedback on the …
Numeric Response Questions in History Courses
Maybe this is obvious to others, but I hadn’t thought of this particular use of numeric-response clicker questions, shared with me by …
Social Media and Waterboarding
I couple of weeks ago on this blog, I shared a tweet by Colin Morris, a student at Kent State University in …
Why Use Clickers?
I just had to share this tweet I saw a few weeks ago. @colinmorris: 44% OF MY U.S. HISTORY CLASS THINKS WATERBOARDING …
More on Slideware
Here’s another example of a slideshow that combines great visuals with a few short sentences and phrases to explain something. The “something” …
Flexible Clicker Questions
I thought I would share a story about a clicker question I used yesterday in my linear algebra course. Although not all …
Clicker Conference: Tim Stelzer Keynote
I’m back from the Inaugural Conference on Classroom Response Systems, hosted by the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning at the University …