‘Clickers’
Visual Presentations and Classroom Response Systems
Sep. 1, 2010—Last week, CFT assistant director Derek Bruff was invited to give a presentation to DigitalVU, a group of web developers and other technology folks at Vanderbilt. They asked Derek to talk about technologies useful for engaging students in a classroom or audience members at a presentation. He talked about some tools for enhancing the visual...
Teaching and Evaluating All at Once: Asking Students to Write Their Own Questions
Jul. 23, 2010—This is a guest post by Isabel Gauthier, professor of psychology specialized in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. Thanks to Isabel for sharing this insight into her teaching. We welcome contributions to the CFT blog by others in the Vanderbilt teaching community! It is difficult to write meaningful and discriminative multiple-choice questions that students find clear...
Sixteen Suggestions for Teaching with Clickers
Jul. 23, 2010—An excerpt from CFT assistant director Derek Bruff’s book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments, was published on the Tomorrow’s Professor listserv this week. In the excerpt, Derek shares sixteen tips for teaching with clickers, including this one: “7. Have students respond to clicker questions several time throughout a class session. Although...
CIRTLcast 5/12 – Classrooms Reconsidered: Engaging Students with Clickers
May. 5, 2010—From our colleagues at the CIRTL Network and CFT assistant director Derek Bruff: May 12: Classroom Reconsidered: Engaging Students with Clickers Wed May 12, 1 PM CT, Derek Bruff – 2p ET / 1p CT / 12p MT Classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to...
University of Louisville Clickers Conference June 4 – Talks by VU’s Derek Bruff, Corbette Doyle, John Seibert
Mar. 29, 2010—The 2nd University of Louisville Clickers Conference will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, June 4th this summer. “Clickers” are handheld devices that allow students to respond synchronously to multiple-choice questions posed by their instructors. Distributions of responses are displayed on-screen to inform subsequent teaching choices and motivate discussion among students. CFT assistant director Derek Bruff,...
Derek Bruff Quoted in Associated Press Story on Clickers
Mar. 8, 2010—CFT assistant director Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, was quoted in an Associated Press story today by AP national education correspondent Eric Gorski on the choice between simple, dedicated classroom response systems (“clickers”) and more sophisticated, smart-phone-based systems. For more on teaching with clickers, visit the CFT’s teaching guide on the...
Recent Conference Talks by Derek Bruff on Teaching with Clickers
Jan. 22, 2010—CFT assistant director Derek Bruff recently gave a few conference presentations on teaching with classroom response systems (“clickers”). At the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, January 13-15, Derek co-facilitated a minicourse on teaching math with clickers with Adam Lucas of St. Mary’s College of California. He also organized a contributed paper session on...
Episode 13 – Tim McNamara on Time-Efficient Teaching
Feb. 5, 2009—This episode continues our podcast series focusing on time-efficient teaching. Faculty at a research university like Vanderbilt must balance a number of competing demands on their time, including teaching, research, and service. For this series, we’re interviewing senior faculty members at Vanderbilt and asking them to share ways they teach effectively while making good use...
Episode 11 – Todd Giorgio on Time-Efficient Teaching
Nov. 7, 2008—This episode begins a new series here on the podcast, a series focusing on time-efficient teaching. Faculty at a research university like Vanderbilt must balance a number of competing demands on their time, including teaching, research, and service. For this series, we’re interviewing senior faculty members at Vanderbilt and asking them to share ways they...
Episode 2 – An Interview with Steve Buckles
Dec. 28, 2007—In this episode, we feature excerpts from an interview with Stephen Buckles, Senior Lecturer in Economics here at Vanderbilt. In this interview, Steve describes his use of a classroom response system in his large undergraduate economics courses. This system allows Steve to pose multiple-choice questions to his students during class and his students to submit...