Training
Please visit the ITS Training Website for scheduled training sessions on a variety of instructional technology, including Clickers, available throughout the term. Below you will find the dates and times of upcoming Clicker training.
For departmental or one-on-one training, please contact ITS to set up an appointment.
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Clicker training by ITS: |
We will have additional clicker training in December and then again during Spring term. The dates and times are listed below. To register, please go to the ITS Training website - upcoming classes are listed under the "Upcoming Events" on the right hand side.
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Clicker Results: Integrating TurningPoint with your ICON Gradebook |
| December 7th and 9th from 9:00 -11:00 am ITS Training Room (Room 2523 in the UCC Conference Center) |
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This course will explain how to export your clicker question results from TurningPoint in a form that can be imported into your ICON gradebook. We will spend the first hour walking through the steps of the export/import process using the D2L export format. The second hour will be open for you to bring your own session files to work with us in exporting the result files and importing them into ICON. To register for Monday, Dec. 7th, click here To register for Wednesday, Dec. 9th, click here |
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Spring Term Training - Beginning February 2010:
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Clickers Basics |
February 2nd: 9:00 - 11:00am ITS Training Center (2523 University Capitol Centre in the UCC Conference Center) |
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This training session will cover getting started using clickers and basic uses of clickers. We will show you how to set up the system, build basic questions, import participant lists from ICON, and run a presentation with TurningPoint in PowerPoint and TurningPoint AnyWhere (which runs outside of PowerPoint). |
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Clickers Advanced Uses |
February 11th: 1:30 - 3:30pm ITS Training Center (2523 University Capitol Centre in the UCC Conference Center) |
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This training session will cover more advanced uses of clickers. We will show how to export results for use in ICON, demonstrate more advanced types of questions, such as demographics, and discuss games and team competitions that can be played with clickers. |
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Pedagogy and Clickers |
February 4th: 1:30 - 3:30pm ITS Training Center (2523 University Capitol Centre in the UCC Conference Center) |
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Now that we have adopted one student response system campus-wide, we would like to explore how clickers can be integrated into courses, discuss the pedagogy behind clicker use, and demonstrate best practices for using clickers in a university setting. |
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Clickers and ICON Integration |
February 8th: 1:30 - 3:30pm ITS Training Center (2523 University Capitol Centre in the UCC Conference Center) |
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This course will explain how to export your clicker question results from TurningPoint in a form that can be imported into your ICON gradebook. We will spend the first hour walking through the steps of the export/import process using the D2L export format. The second hour will be open for you to bring your own session files to work with us in exporting the result files and importing them into ICON. |
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Turning Technologies Online Training |
Turning Technologies has several online tutorials to help guide you through a basic understanding of using student response systems. Click on Learning Community on the right side of the screen. You will have access to six different options. The tutorial are each less than 3 minutes and weekly online training Webinars last one hour. This is a great way to get started.
- Tutorials
- Online Training
- Onsite Training
- Best Practices
- Presentations/Podcasts
- User Conferences