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FREE Webinar: Process Improvement for Low-Performaning Schools

KKahn — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:08:49 -0400

Process Improvement for Low-Performing Schools

Join APQC Education for a FREE Webinar to learn best practices to support your low-performing schools. Dr. Tina Rooks with Turning Technologies will discuss how process management can be applied to assessments to assist with turning around low-performing schools. Carolyn Talasek with APQC Education will explain DMAIC and some results . Register Today!>>

Learn from this free Webinar:

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K-12 Webinar with Dr. Mike Schomoker - Register Today!

KKahn — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:43:03 -0400

Last chance to register for our K-12 Webinar with Dr. Mike Schmoker: Impact EVERY Student - Simplet Strategies that Provide Big Improvement.

Date: Friday, April 30th
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern
Cost: None

Learn more and sign-up to attend. >>

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Clicker Conference at Ohio State University

KKahn — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:34:02 -0400

Ohio State University is holding its 1st annual Innovate! elearning conference that includes a pre-conference day focused on Turning Technologies' clickers. For more information check out our Professional Development page.

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Happy Holidays!

KKahn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:06:12 -0500

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.

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New ResponseCard

KKahn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:21:12 -0500

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

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Follow the Turning Technologies User Conference on Twitter!

MattyD — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:33:59 -0400

Happy Friday Everyone! We're in the home stretch to the National User Conference at UNLV. I've been working on this event for several months now and am excited to see everything finally come to fruition. While I know not everyone is able to attend the conference, I wanted to make sure those individuals could still get a taste for what our User Conferences are all about. Throughout the conference, I will be "tweeting"updates and hopefully start discussions about everything that is going on.

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Dr. Mazur Article: Making Peer Instruction Work

KKahn — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:51:19 -0400

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!

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Creating Participant Lists for Multiple Classes

mjohnson — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:52:27 -0400

For some of us the school year has already started and others the school year is just beginning. I really encourage users to start using participant lists as soon as they are comfortable with basic polling. This way you'll be able to track data and progress over time, from the beginning to the end of the school year. For those of you that have more than one class, consider this little trick for creating rosters without having to hand enter the device ID's for each class.

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Using Peer Instruction in K-12

mjohnson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:22:24 -0400

Years ago I was a kindergarten teacher. I loved to hear my students discuss their answers and ideas with each other. However sometimes a simple direction like "discuss your answer with a neighbor", can lead to off task behavior. Attached are some templates I created to help guide the discussion part of Peer Instruction (P.I.) with k-12 students. If you try P.I. and use these templates, please provide any feedback so I can improve them for other users.

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Edugaming Resources

trooks — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:19 -0400

Turning Technologies is hosting an Edugaming Workshop July 21st in Orlando, Florida (Click here for more information). As I am preparing for this workshop, I thought many of our users may be interested in the free educational games we will be discussing during this workshop. I will begin by posting one of my favorite free games, Timez Attack.

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K-12 Content & Resources - New Additions to TurningTalk

KKahn — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:27:15 -0400

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

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Planning for Fall

mjohnson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:51:46 -0400

Even though it is summer, it's never too early to start thinking about the new school year. We all know what the first week back for is really like. So if you have a few minutes this summer try creating some TurningPoint PPT's or you can also use the new Question List feature in TurningPoint AnyWhere 2.0!

Here are just a few ideas for using clickers at the beginning of the school year:

-Getting to know you questions

-Class rule review game

-Clicker introduction/orientation

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Edugaming Workshop - July 21st - Register Today!

KKahn — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:50:42 -0400

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.

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Turning Team @ NECC 2009

KKahn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:00:12 -0400

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:

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TurningPoint 2006 End of Life Notification

KKahn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:54:16 -0400

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.

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TurningPoint AnyWhere 2.0

KKahn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:37:17 -0400

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.

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Free Webinar: Study Island and Turning Technologies

KKahn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:49:34 -0400

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.

Title: Free Webinar: Study Island and Turning Technologies

Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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Webinar Follow Up Resources

KKahn — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:13 -0400

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.

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I'm Listening...

MBroderick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:17:45 -0400

At Turning, we regularly ask ourselves what it really means to be "customer driven". Of course the typical answer includes our sales people, customer service teams and everyone else at Turning being attuned to everything our customers want us to hear. Even more specifically our product and project managers seek out current and potential customers to gather opinions on current, new and upcoming products on everything from features and functions to usability in real world environment. Likewise, here in this blog, more than I want to communicate, I simply want to

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