Making Sense of Responses to Open-Ended Questions on the Fly
I was looking over my notes from the 2010 Health Professions Educational Research Symposium (HPERS) hosted back in January by Nova Southeastern …
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 …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
LectureTools and Placemark Questions
There were a lot of mentions on Twitter the other day of the recent Campus Technology article “Fostering Classroom Interaction, Minus the …
Classroom Response Systems in Literature Courses
Since the ConnectEd Summit at Abilene Christian University in the spring, I’ve been thinking about ways to use smart phones as “super-clickers” …
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 …
Social Media and Classroom Dynamics
Clay Shirky’s recent TED talk on social media has some interesting implications for future classroom dynamics. As you watch Shirky’s 17-minute talk …