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A “boycott BP” movement in social media is getting stronger while the Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill continues. Some are even trying to hurt BP’s reputation with a fake Twitter account. Also, BP oil leak parody t-shirts are selling like crazy. Analysts are saying the oil business is seeing little effect on its profits even with the BP public relations nightmare.

Take a look at Prezi http://prezi.com/  a zooming presentation tool. You can type in questions and use TurningPoint AnyWhere to receive responses. Very cool effect!

I am hearing a lot about Team Based learning and curriculum shifts for many of the instructors I work with.  This spring I was posed the question, “How can we incorporate Turning Technologies into our new team based classrooms and curriculum?”  This question came to me from University of Virginia School of Medicine.

We are currently working on an export scheme to make it easy to move the results from TurningPoint and TurningPoint AnyWhere into the PowerSchool gradebook. We are looking for a few of our users who would be willing to test the export as we complete it. As always...thank you for your support.

Belmonte Middle School in Saugus, Ma recently put togehter a massive MCAS Math Review competition for their whole 6th grade class.   The Jeopardy game template available online was used with about 30 to 40 math questions across the full range of strands covered by our curriculm.  Point values were added to each slide to correspond to the Jeopardy values.  We added some Jeopardy intro music to give it a little pizzaz. 

As a Turning Technologies sales person, I have an obvious interest in the clicker aspects of all pedagogical methods and theories.  However, after nearly 6 years of working with Higher Education instructors, I have developed and fascination with the science of learning.  It is truly enjoyable to listen to how so many different factors about a human contribute to how one learns, retains, and are motivated.

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If you are interested in the pedagogy that supports the use of your TurningPoint system and research specifically surrounding SRS, please visit my library at https://sites.google.com/site/clickerresearch... . If you have research and are willing to share please post me a comment!

I have stated for some time now that our student responses devices can be used effectively with elementary students. As testimony to this point, I frequently photograph my son's advancing skills with our clicker which include holding his first clicker at two days and actually pressing the buttons by age four months. Besides providing a comical documentary of his advancing clicker in his baby book, we at Turning have had discussions regarded what might be the earliest age of effective use.