Please see the announcements below regarding “Moodle” and “Clickers” workshops scheduled over the next couple of weeks.
MOODLE is a learning management system that makes it very easy for courses to have a presence on the web. If you are interested in getting started with Moodle or want to learn more about its interactive features, consider attending one of these workshops. The introductory workshops will focus on fundamentals and will work towards building a dynamic syllabus in Moodle. The advanced workshop will focus on ways to engage your students in collaborative work in Moodle.
If you are interested in attending a Moodle workshop, please contact Arno Damerow (damerowa@lawrence.edu).
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Introduction to Moodle (workshops held in Main Hall 108)
Advanced Moodle (workshop held in Main Hall 108)
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CLICKERS are a new classroom technology that the Committee on Academic Technology evaluated last academic year. Clickers are small keypad devices that allow a student to answer a multiple choice question and have their response sent to a receiver attached to a computer. The computer automatically tallies the responses and displays a summary graph for both instructor and students to see. On Wednesday, September 19, a representative from the Turning Point software company will be on campus demonstrating how a simple Powerpoint presentation can be used to collect and display live classroom surveys.
If you are interested in attending a Clicker workshop, please contact David Berk (berkd@lawrence.edu).
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Introduction to Clickers (workshops held in Library 214)
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If you have any questions about these or other instructional technologies on the Lawrence campus, don’t hesitate to contact David Berk (x6756) for more information.
Philip, we have not yet attempted integration between Moodle and clickers. Our Turning Point rep recently told me that they are working on adding ties with Moodle that would allow something like what you suggest. Our current approach to clickers is to make sets available in classrooms rather than to have students buy them. So students remain anonymous in their clicker use.
We are a Moodle campus and are currently undergoing a pilot test of clickers. My question to you is: Have you integrated Moodle and the clickers? What I mean is do you have a system in Moodle that lets or asks students to enter clicker serial numbers along with student names and other needed info. We intend to use that kind of info gathered by Moodle to generate classroom/student lists which are needed to assign point to students.