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Some notes on physical and virtual\u00c2\u00a0classroom “clickers” that I’ve maintained in Evernote over the years and shared a few times. Seemed like a good thing to blog about.<\/p>\n
Phone-based:<\/strong><\/p>\n iOS-based:<\/strong><\/p>\n Web\/Smart-phone based:<\/strong><\/p>\n Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n Then the Chronicle of Higher Ed. has some quick idea for low-tech clickers: Live classroom interaction, polling, chat…<\/strong><\/p>\n Piazza allows for large groups to ask questions and vote up the important ones. It is a very interesting way to get feedback in a large class. It is free and has an LTI integration that the CPI can add to any Isaak\/Sakai site. \u00c2\u00a0It surprises me how often instructors interested in “simple” polling like the realtime feedback Piazza gives.<\/li>\n <\/p>\n That’s my list. \u00c2\u00a0It’s just the notes I’ve been keeping, but hopefully it helps someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some notes on physical and virtual\u00c2\u00a0classroom “clickers” that I’ve maintained in Evernote over the years and shared a few times. Seemed like a good thing to blog about. Phone-based: Turning Technologies has physical clickers and smart-phone clickers http:\/\/www.turningtechnologies.ca\/ If you are using a textbook from Nelson or Pearson there might be a chance that you… Continue Reading Notes on Clickers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,54,1,55,42,3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nIf you are using a textbook from Nelson or Pearson there might be a chance that you could get the software and base for free from them — but the students would have to pay. ITS’ AV Services also have around 50 of these for sign-out.<\/li>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.tophatmonocle.com\/
\nUses phones, laptops, etc. and they are always keen to do a demo.<\/li>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.polleverywhere.com
\nIs free for under 40 people\u00c2\u00a0but gets expensive as numbers are added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\nIt is new and promises to be free, but I have not used it.<\/li>\n
\nis new and promises to be free, but I have not used it.
\nA Brock University Economics prof really liked this option<\/li>\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/low-tech-alternatives-to-clickers\/34184<\/p>\n\n
\nSignal – good buzz (possibly for the API) with a free trial<\/li>\n