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Dr. Tina Sartori:
Active Learning in Action
 Dr. Sartori works closely with educators across the country to implement effective student response adoptions. Read how schools successfully integrate response systems with formative assessment to achieve measurable increases in student learning.
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Marion Johnson:
Click2Achieve Program Developer
 Marion Johnson is Turning Technologies’ K12 Professional Development coordinator. She facilitates and trains teachers, administrators, and IT professionals in best practices and practical and effective classroom strategies that engage students and increase student learning.
Read Marion's most recent blog entry. >> |
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Submitted by KKahn on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 4:08pm.
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. >>
Submitted by KKahn on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 12:43pm.
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.
Submitted by KKahn on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 11:06am.
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
Submitted by KKahn on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 4:21pm.
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.
Submitted by MattyD on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 10:33am.
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.
Submitted by mjohnson on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 8:52am.
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.
Submitted by mjohnson on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 12:22pm.
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.
Submitted by trooks on Wed, 07/15/2009 - 11:30am.
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
Submitted by KKahn on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 4:27pm.
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
Submitted by mjohnson on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 9:51pm.
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.
Submitted by KKahn on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 2:54pm.
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
Submitted by KKahn on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 9:49am.
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.
Submitted by KKahn on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 4:23pm.
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
Submitted by MBroderick on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 11:17am.
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