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 …
Teaching with Clickers in Philosophy
Although relatively few instructors in the humanities use clickers, if there’s one discipline in the humanities where clickers are starting to get …
Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses
Last week I facilitated a workshop titled “Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses” for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. Since …
Making Active Learning Work in the Classroom
A math colleague of mine, who blogs under the name Doc Turtle, recently blogged about his use of a calculus worksheet that …
How to Catch Cheating with Clickers? Here’s an Idea
I received an email today from a colleague asking me if I knew of any “clever, low-hassle” methods for catching a student …
Book Reviews
I wanted to share a couple of reviews my book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, has received in the year since it’s …
Students Writing Clicker Questions
Eric Tremblay recently blogged about his plans to have his students write clicker questions for him to use during class. He’s not …
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 + the Arts
I just had to share this recent story from the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus blog: “University Dance Group Uses Twitter, …
Gardner Campbell + Backchannel in the Classroom
Gardner Campbell and two of his Baylor University colleagues, librarian Ellen Filgo and first-year student Alexis Tracy, presented a talk at the …