Higher Education Campus

All of sudden, I am not allowed to  access my turningtechnologies instructor account. I can not download class rosters in order to use response devices. I was also unable to contact customer service, as they are closed in the weekend.

Has anybody experienced the similar problem? Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks.

Has anyone here worked with Turning Technologies and interfaced it with Web CT or blackboard?

Any concerns about confusion in the raw data when matched with the student responses?

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.

On Nov. 13, 2009, St. John's University hosted a Turning Technologies-sponsored lunch-and-learn session for New York City area users. Many thanks to Sharon See of St. John's Clinical Pharmacy Practice Department for her hard work in arranging some creative and informative faculty presentations that showcased different ways to incorporate audience response technology with instruction.

Well, it seems my Halloween presentation I posted recently was well received, and I've gotten many requests for more of these presentations.  So, without further ado, here's my new Thanksgiving Trivia presentation.  Please feel free to download it and use it however you like.  There are notes at the bottom of many of the slides, describing how the hyperlinking, scoring and competition is working.  You can also change categories and questions to fit your needs (I created it with questions at the high school level).   

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

I'm so excited for next week's user conference in Las Vegas.  As a trainer with Turning Technologies, I often help people with ways to use our systems, so I can't wait to hear/see all the different ways people are using them and to share it all with you! 

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!

So 5,000+ clickers later at KSU and the learning is gaining momentum. When we started this project to standardize to one technology it was supposed to be simple-- Choose one and let it go.

There is something grand to be said about challenging one's own teaching to not be just different but better. As I was quoted in the Kent Daily Stater, "it is just a piece of plastic" (no offense TT) but in the hands of skilled faculty it is a gateway for engaged learning.

Hi Everyone!

Well, I'm preparing a few things for our User Conference in Las Vegas in October.  I'm so excited, because this year I am attending the conference as an attendee!  I get to go to the sessions, meet the users, and gather all kinds of best practices and pedagogical ideas for using our systems.  I'm really looking forward to bringing back all kinds of new ideas to share with everyone on my trainings!

Registration for the upcoming Turning Technologies User Conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is now OPEN!

Reserve your spot today! Find out complete conference details, accommodation information and register today.

www.turningtechnologies.com/unlv

I have walked through the registration process for classes and then set one remote for me in one of the ASM104 classes.  I used the tutorials to watch the steps for registration for the classes and decided it was a logical process and did not watch the process for the remote.  That too was logical and worked fine and it was easy to find the class list and highlight what a student would need.  Simple process.

Hello Everyone! Exciting news! We are in the final planning stages of our upcoming National User Conference. "Where is it at?" you ask. . . . FABULOUS Las Vegas! Hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this conference is surely one you won't want to miss. Mark your calendars. The 2-day conference begins October 12-13, 2009. We also will be offering a Pre-Conference Training Day on October 11 for those seeking hands-on, half-day trainings on our products.

 Anthropology faculty at Mesa Community College will conduct a pilot student of the impacts on retention and learning as a result of use of two different "clicker technologies".  We will compare retention and grade distributions from last fall and spring to what we have for this fall's semester.  We are working with our Center for Teaching and Learning in this pilot.  

Saludos a todos los usuarios hispanohablantes.  Se abre este foro para generar la comunidad latinoamericana. 

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.

We're working hard to get these tutorials completed for TurningPoint Anywhere Mac and PC.  We're nearly finished with the Mac tutorials, and hope to have them done by the time the software is released.  The PC ones might be a few days behind, but I think everyone will be pleased with them. 

As for me, I'm getting ready to head to NC State next week, and will continue with a very busy month on the road.  This looks like it's going to be a crazy summer in the training department!

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.

FYI:  The latest version of RemotePoll was released today.  RemotePoll allows for polling at remote locations.  Ideal for video conferencing or satellite broadcasts. 

There have been significant improvements in the ease of use  (No need to configure firewalls.)

Key highlights:

One of the highlights of my position is that I’ve been able to either attend or hear about some of the more imaginative uses of student response. I know that most of your time is focused on teaching, learning activities, and engaging students in course work – a challenge I admire and respect all educators for taking on every day. The thought of 30 8 year-olds for 7+ hours intimidates me in a way words fail to express. lol

But what about the little moments you’ve carved out just for fun?

One of the first technologies that I previously worked with (I'm not saying how long ago this was.) in an educational setting was video conferencing. Washington state was in the initial stages of implementing its K-20 system across the state, connecting every college and school district to a high-bandwidth statewide video and data network.

If you haven't already heard, Turning is offering several free webinars this month for our education users.

Higher Ed:
April 30th - 5:00 pm: Introduction to Peer Instruction, Dr. Eric Mazur
April 23rd – 12:00 pm: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, Dr. Derek Bruff

K-12:

Welcome to TurningTalk – Turning Technologies’ new social learning community!

My name is Katherine Kahn. I am the Communications Manager for Turning Technologies' Education Division and have been with the company since August 2005. As Communications Manager I am involved in many different aspects of Turning including PR, web-based initiatives, marketing campaigns, events, and advertising. (Of course I will be keeping the advertising aspect to a minimum in TurningTalk! lol)

So in my recent surfing of the internet, I came across an interesting blog post I think all you Higher Education professors, instructors, IT professionals (I feel like an actor on Oscar night, accepting my award and not wanting to leave anyone out) and everyone else, you know who you are, might enjoy. It is from Dr. Derek Bruff a noted professor and student response enthusiast. He reveals to his readers a very interesting way he gathers questions from his students which he then uses as clicker questions. Check it out here http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/