Using best practices with clickers to address instructional challenges

Created by Mark Morton (University of Waterloo) on November 13, 2007

I recently gave a workshop on how a "best-practice" approach to using clickers can help remedy a number of instructional challenges. However, rather than use PowerPoint, which I find constraining in that assumes a linear pathway through the presentation material, I created a concept map using Cmaps. The nodes of the concept map are hyperlinked to webpages that correspond to "slides." Once the workshop got going, I was able to jump to whatever node was relevant to that aspect of the discussion. All in all, it worked quite well, and helped make the workshop more dynamic and interactive. The concept map is available here: http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/clickers.html . Feel free to make use of it, or to give me feedback.

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		Using best practices with clickers to address instructional challenges Created by Mark Morton (University of Waterloo) on November 13, 2007 I recently gave a workshop on how a "best-practice" approach to using clickers can help remedy a number of instructional challenges. However, rather than use PowerPoint, which I find constraining in that assumes a linear pathway through the presentation material, I created a concept map using Cmaps. The nodes of the concept map are hyperlinked to webpages that correspond to "slides." Once the workshop got going, I was able to jump to whatever node was relevant to that aspect of the discussion. All in all, it worked quite well, and helped make the workshop more dynamic and interactive. The concept map is available here: http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/clickers.html . Feel free to make use of it, or to give me feedback. -- Mark Active Learning \| audience response system \| audience response systems \| Clickers \| engagement \| instructional challenges \| participation \| personal response systems \| preparation \| PRS \| Questions \| response systems \| Retention Mark's blog Login or register to post comments 785 reads
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