Presidential Debates
I ran across two news stories this week describing campus viewing parties for last Friday’s presidential debate that featured the use of …
How Cool Are Clickers?
Last week’s New York Times published an essay titled “Geek Lessons” by Mark Edmundson, who teaches English at the University of Virginia. …
Campus Clicker Adoptions
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently posted an essay by Michael Bugeja titled “Could You Be a Hoopla-dite?” in which Bugeja criticizes …
Article: Len (2007)
Patrick M. Len recently commented on an earlier post about clicker question banks to share links to his blog, where he regularly …
First Week of Class
This is the first week of class at a lot of colleges and universities, so I thought it would be interesting to …
Article: Jenkins (2007)
Reference: Jenkins, A. (2007). Technique and technology: Electronic voting systems in an English literature lecture. Pedagogy, 7(3), 526-533. Summary: In this article, …
The Inaugural Conference on Classroom Response Systems
The Inaugural Conference on Classroom Response Systems is scheduled for Saturday, November 15, at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Yes, that’s …
Mobile Learning at Abilene Christian University
According to the iThinkEd blog, Abilene Christian University is unveiling its suite of mobile learning tools this weekend. As you may have …
Article: Reay, Li, and Bao (2008)
The news article I mentioned in my last post referred to a recent Ohio State study on the impact of classroom response …
Low-Tech Alternatives to Clickers
A couple of weeks ago, Inside Higher Ed posted an article titled “Keeping Clickers in the Classroom” based on a presentation made …