Book Review: “The First Year Out” by Tim Clydesdale
[Note: This post has nothing directly to do with teaching with classroom response systems. However, I found the book reviewed below a …
Higher Ed Hero Webinar on Teaching with Clickers Next Week
I’ll be presenting a Higher Ed Hero webinar on teaching with clickers next week on Thursday, February 4th, at 12 noon Central …
Article: Debourgh (2008) – Using Clickers to Promote Critical Thinking in Nursing Education
Reference: DeBourgh, G. A. (2008). Use of classroom “clickers” to promote acquisition of advanced reasoning skills. Nurse Education in Practice, 8(2), 76-87. …
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 …
Clickers in Health Professions Education
Last weekend I was honored to give the opening keynote at Nova Southeastern University’s Health Professions Education Research Symposium (HPERS) in Ft. …
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’ …
More Best Practices for Writing Clicker Questions
My post last week pointing to a few collections of best practices for writing clicker questions seemed to go over well, so …
An APGAR Test for Students
A little while back, Jeff McClurken directed me (via Twitter, naturally) to a 2006 blog post by Gardner Campbell describing an APGAR …
Nuggets from the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Here are a few interesting ideas shared during the first set of talks about teaching with clickers at the Joint Mathematics Meetings …
Best Practices for Writing Clicker Questions
I am frequently asked how one goes about writing effective clicker questions. My usual approach is to share examples of useful clicker …