Salvaging the one-shot with
clickers
Micah Muer
Instructional Technology and
Information Literacy Librarian
Mat-Su College, UAA
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Part One: Introduction
What is a clicker?
Hardware choices
Where did clickers come from?
When were classroom response
systems first used in lectures?
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“Participation
Presenter-Audience
Reaction System,”
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“Arithmetic Teaching
Apparatus”, 1971.
Early research: kind of promising.
40 years on: how we’re using
clickers today
Agile teaching
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Time for telling
Your sister calls to say she’s having
twins. Which of the following is more
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Peer instruction
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observes the planet Jupiter on the
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First Slide
Second Slide
Games and contests
Developing a
Research Strategy
Evaluating
Material
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Double Jeopardy
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You are assigned a research topic for
geometry class on the history of
Pascal’s triangle (5-10 pages). Which
source is the best one for background
information on this topic
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Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Oxford English Dictionary
Trigonometry Textbook
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You want to write a paper on the politics of
a poem by Allen Ginsberg entitled “Hadda
Been Playing on the Jukebox” and have
found only two articles, which is not
enough for your paper. What is the best
course of action?
A. Change your topic
B. Broaden your topic
C. Narrow your topic
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You hear on a radio talk show that
Mad Cow Disease may have been
found in Canada. How might you best
determine the truth of this statement?
A. Get a radio transcript
B. Check the American Council on
Beef website
C. Ask some coworkers
D. Check the Department of
Agriculture Website
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You must write a paper on the
environmental practices of Sony
Corporation. Which of the following is
most likely to provide balanced
information?
A. Environmental Protection Agency
(epa.gov)
B. Economic Development Board (edb.org)
C. Sony (sony.com)
D. Greenpeace (greenpeace.org)
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Participant Leaders
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Research today
Part Two: how we’re using clickers
at Mat-Su College
Let’s look at a real presentation.
Where do questions come from?
• You can make them up…
Where do questions come from?
• You can make them up…
• Or you can “borrow” them:
–http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/infol
itassessments.htm
Assessment
Qualitative evaluation responses –
sometimes kind of useless.
“What is one highlight you will remember
from this session?”
1. Sources.
found in the library.
2. The dude was cool.
7. The library is the place to
go!
3. Using the library website
efficiently.
8. Helping with references.
4. The library's more
9. Thank you for sharing,
reliable and probably
we now know where to
more true than google's
get useful information
results. The library seems school or outside of
like there is more
school related.
accurate results.
10.Using the library (beard).
5. Use the library.
11.Amish beard.
6. That help on subjects are
Let’s look at some clicker
assessment data.