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Educational Technology
Blackboard & eCollege
Audio and Video
Clickers in the Classroom
A Student Response System (clickers) is a tool that assists faculty in generating student engagement, quickly completing quizzes, in taking role, etc. The University of Colorado Denver supports i>clicker. Students purchase their clicker at the Auraria bookstore. Clickers should be ordered at the same time faculty place book orders. The i>clicker company provides a free reciever to faculty with classes with more than 100 enrolled students. The Center for Faculty Development has a small number of reciever units to loan on a semester-by-semester basis.
- Clicker Sets as Learning Objects Gerald Bergtrom, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
- Clicker Resource Guide: An Instructor’s Guide to the Effective Use of Personal Response Systems (Clickers) in Teaching
This comprehensive guide was prepared by the staff of the University of Colorado-Boulder Science Education Initiative and the University of British Columbia Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative. It contains a wealth of ideas and pedagogical FAQs. The guide is also available at http://www.cwsei.ubc.ca/resources/clickers.htm
- Tips for Successful "Clicker" Use
This great tool not only describes what to do to make the use of clickers in your classroom a success--it also describes what not to do. Written by Doug Duncan of the University of Colorado-Boulder after many years of clicker use at CU-Boulder, where over 17,000 clickers are in use today, it includes recommendations from members of the University of British Columbia Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative.
Web 2.0
Blogging
Why Blog? Joni Dunlap of UC-Denver leads this webcast about using a blog in your course