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Ettc Workshop Using A Prs System
- 1. Using a Personal Response System Robert Heinrich
- 2. What is a Personal Response System A Personal Response System (PRS), allows large groups of people to vote on a topic or answer a question. It allows audiences and students to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a keypad or other hand-held/computer devices.
- 3. How Classroom Response Systems Work Each student has a transmitter The classroom has one or more receivers Classroom is equipped with computer and usually an LCD Projector Instructor projects the question and multiple choice answers in front of class. Results are tallied and displayed for all to see.
- 4. Key Points Limitations of traditional lectures Engaging students in peer discussions Learning gains you can expect Attitude gains you can expect Instructors opinions about using clickers
- 5. Why Use a Student Response System? Engage students in active learning. Encourage students' critical thought processes requiring synthesis of knowledge by providing them a way to answer questions. Improve class attendance and student participation. Encourage student preparation prior to class (reading of class materials). Quickly determine whether homework or reading assignments have been completed before the class.
- 6. Improve instructor understanding of students' comprehension of curriculum. Provide students with immediate feedback about the accuracy of their understanding of the curriculum. Provide instructor with instant feedback of students' understanding of concepts and content knowledge. Provide instructors with the ability to customize instruction based on student responses. Use analysis of student responses as the basis for class discussion. Traditional large lecture hall teaching methods are not suitable for all students. Meet the needs of diverse learning styles in large general education classes. Align curriculum to state standards and produce reports quickly and easily Why Use a Student Response System?
- 7. Tips from other faculty General advice from faculty for their colleagues: Make time in class for clickers. They cannot be an add-on. You need to significantly redesign your course to accommodate them Have low expectations for the first semester; increase your expectations in the future semester Understand student perspective (clicker purchase, registration process resulting in tpp file, clicker programming) Be prepared! Have a back up plan, if they don't work
- 8. More Tips Partner with an experienced user Have a support person accompany you on the first day (or more) Don't be afraid - be creative! Do not assign point for the first few weeks - use it for training;, and... For one class, have student revert back to show of hands in order to gain appreciation
- 9. Audience Response System Using an audience response system, your PowerPoint presentations become powerful data collection and assessment tools that collect real-time audience responses
- 10. Audience Response Systems The TurningPoint audience response system integrates 100% into PowerPoint It allows audiences and students to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses to interactive questions using a ResponseCard keypad.
- 11. What room are we in now? F111 E012 Nacote Creek Research Room Carnegie Library Center Computer Lab
- 12. Does a PRS enhance student interaction? True False
- 13. What do you hope will be served for lunch today? Pizza Sandwiches Beer Seafood
- 14. How Do I Get Started? From the Special Applications Folder on the desktop – Launch Turning Point
- 15. Creating a Slide Create a new presentation Insert an interactive slide Create question and answers
- 16. Converting an Existing Slide Open existing file Choose Slide you want to convert Add polling chart and enable this slide to collect responses. Insert Chart
- 18. 5 Steps to a Successful Presentation Step 1: Reset the Session
- 19. Step 2: Plug in TurningPoint Hardware 5 Steps to a Successful Presentation
- 20. Step 3: Run the Response Device Wizard 5 Steps to a Successful Presentation
- 21. Step 4: Test your Presentation From PowerPoint go into Slide Show mode and test your presentation. Use at least one keypad during testing. 5 Steps to a Successful Presentation
- 22. Further Questions For more information pl ease address all correspondence to: Robert R. Heinrich The Richard Stockton College of NJ PO Box 195, Pomona, NJ 08240 609-626-6039 Email: [email_address]