Kids These Days!
Okay, so “Classrooms Go High-Tech to Engage Students” isn’t the most creative headline, but it was nice to see some coverage of …
Clickers at New Student Orientation
I thought about just posting this news item to Twitter, but there’s a great quote I wanted to share that wouldn’t fit …
Prediction Questions for Lecture Demonstrations
A couple of weeks ago, Stephanie Chasteen posted a series of blog entries on her ScienceGeekGirl blog from an American Association of …
Clickers in (Very Large) Economics Courses
Jennifer Imazeki teaches a 500-student microeconomics course at San Diego State University, and she recently blogged about her use of clickers in …
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” …
The Explanatory Power of PowerPoint
Jeff Young’s recent Chronicle article, “When Computers Leave Classrooms, So Does Boredom,” has sparked a great deal of discussion in various online …
People to Know: Eric Mazur
If you follow the world of classroom response systems, you’ve likely heard of Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur. (I’ve certainly mentioned him …
Evaluating Teaching with Clickers
Teaching with clickers provides instructors with a wealth of information they can use to learn about the effectiveness of their own teaching. …
More Cryptography Questions
Here are a couple more clicker questions I tried out in my cryptography class recently. “Cryptography was the decisive factor in the …
One-Best-Answer Questions
You may have noticed I haven’t been blogging as frequently this summer. That due, in part, to the fact that I’m teaching …