Tag: SRS
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Twitter or Novelty and Engagement (nee encouraging communication)?
The Chronicle, Fast Company and many others have picked up on this article – The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades (Junco R., Heiberger G., Loken E. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x). What struck me wasn’t how many other outlets ignored the fact that it wasn’t actually “Twitter” perse, but rather engagement and novelty that…
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Strawpoll – an open alternative to closed SRS?
I’m thinking that it would be a fair guess to say that in a typical university classroom, 90% of the students in a large class will have a phone – with a text plan – so if you can get them to get a twitter account, or if they have neither, get an account add…
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Students to txt in answers in NZ
A trial of an app called Activexpression is going to start in New Zealand. The application allows cell phones to be used as a student response system. While the website doesn’t show the system that is suggested in the article, I’m sure there are many higher ed institutions who would like to implement these systems…
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Clicking into school
Until things hit the mainstream media, it seems that admins are often reluctant to dive into a new way of doing things (not wanting to be first and all that). So this article from the New York Times, is a real blessing for those who are trying to get SRS/clickers into their schools, departments or…
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iPod Touch = Apple Tablet
One of the things that came to me yesterday when I saw the iPod Touch and after watching the previews that are much like the iPhone previews is that Apple has it’s tablet. But it’s not a tablet – tablets are still kinda the black sheep of the mobile computing space. They have a cool…