KKahn's blog

Can anyone smell the turkey and stuffing yet?!?  Hmmmm...that may not be my imagination.  I think it's one of the crockpots for our annual company Thanksgiving potluck coming up in just a couple of hours.  Yum!

Also we wanted to let you know a couple of adjustments in our standard hours.

Turning Technologies will close today at 5:00 pm EST and be closed both Thursday and Friday this week (November 26 & 27th) in observance of the Thanksgiving fun and festivities.

We will also close Friday, December 11th at 5:00 EST.

If you haven't heard the news, we have a new student response device option available - ResponseCard RF LCD.

ResponseCard RF LCD works with your existing receivers and includes an LCD screen that provides students with visual confirmation of selected response, channel setting and battery life.

For more info check out the Hardware Specs or contact your Account Executive.
-K.

Katherine Kahn
Communications Manager - Education Division
Turning Technologies

We've just posted Dr. Mazur's 2nd TurningTalk article, Making Peer Instruction Work, which provides great strategies on how to successfully kick-off his effective teaching methodology with students.   

In addition, Dr. Mazur will be one of our keynote speakers at our Higher Education User Conference at UNLV, Las Vegas and our Featured Educatored in our next newsletter!

We've just posted some great presentations and resources specifically for our K-12 users.  Last year's grant participants submitted multiple classroom TurningPoint presentations.  Thanks again!  In addition, we've posted a variety of TurningPoint game templates.

We will continue to add more resources over time, so check back!
-K.

Katherine Kahn
Communications Manager - Education Division
Turning Technologies

Interested in learning more about edugaming?  Dr. Chris Dede and Dr. Tina Sartori will be hosting a full day workshop - Serious Results From Serious Games - July 21st at Ocoee Middle School (30 minutes outside of Orlando, FL) focused on edugamings positive impact to student achievement.

Space is limited so get your registration in soon!

Learn more about the edugaming workshop. >>

-K.

The K-12 & Event Turning Team's are all geared up and ready for NECC next week!  If you're heading to DC, make sure you stop by and visit us at booth #3236.  We're having plenty of giveaways - which no one would let me snag! lol - and a some great featured presentations listed below.

Featured Presentations:

For anyone who still hasn't updated to TurningPoint 2008, please read the end of life notification for TurningPoint 2006.  Beginning August 31, 2009, TurningPoint 2006 will no longer be available for download or sale either domestically or internationally.
-K.

Woo-hoo!  If you haven't heard yet, TurningPoint AnyWhere 2.0 is available for download for both Mac and PC.  It has a variety of new updates/enhancements, and the interface really looks great.

It's Friday.  School is either out or almost out, so I'm sure most of you are probably reaching for your beach towels about now, but...

Next week Study Island's offering a free webinar related to their integration with our student response systems.  If you're interested, details are below.

Don't forget the sunscreen! :-)
-K.

Date:  Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Webinar resources from our Spring 09 Series are now online.  I've also posted all questions submitted during the webinars to the TurningTalk forums for feedback and further discussion since we were not always able to get through the entire list during the one hour sessions.

Over 1,000 users registered to attend.  Thank you to all attendees for your  valuable feedback.