Clickers?

Hello again,

I had another assignment and this time we were told to use the turning point technology to create a presentation for a class, which could be a test, lesson, or anything on those lines. For those who don't know, turning point technology is accompanied with clickers that are used to input answers. In other words, imagine this...

You are sitting in class and after finishing a unit, the teacher tells you to pull out a clicker. You pull it out and the teacher through a PowerPoint has a quiz concerning the material that was just gone through. You go slide by slide answering questions and at the end of each slide, a teacher shows what the class guessed and what was the correct answer. No individual answers are shown so no student is humiliated.  You finish the quiz and you now know what you got on the quiz but also the answers to the questions you did not know. No paper was involved and the grades are done electronically. 

I love this technology for those reasons. As a student, I am always the one who wants to know what I got on the quiz or exam as soon as humanly possible. I remember when professors would give a quiz on a sheet on paper then we hand it in and then the answers are gone over during the lecture and I am sitting there trying to calculate in my head if I got the answer correct or not. I know I may have students like this so I loved being able to learn more about it. The crazy part was that the more I learned, the more difficult it actually was to set it up. It's very easy to set up the PowerPoint through the turning technologies; however, when it comes to saving it and trying to use it on another computer... that's a different story. I saw how many people's were not working and how frustrating it was for them. I think moving forward that is one thing I need to learn and accomplish so I won't be frustrated. That or don't change computers. I might lean towards the second just because it's safer but I will eventually have to learn how to use it so might as well start now. 

This assignment at first seemed not challenging at all. I have learned not to underestimate people. You hear that saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" all the time. Well that not only applies to people, but homework assignments as well. Something may look easy until you take a closer look. I learned the hard way. I hope this helps someone else so you are not thrown off like my classmates or I was. 

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." - William Shakespeare

-Inspirational Woman