Examples from Penn
- A Reflection VideoPaul Heiney from Physics and Astronomy and Melissa Wilde from Sociology talk about their use of clickers.
Introduction
What are clickers/audience response systems?
Audience response systems (which we call "clickers") include 3 components;
 The hardware: a handset and receiver |
1. small handsets that students use to vote on a multiple-choice survey or quiz question projected in the classrooms |
| 2. a small wireless receiver attached to the classroom computer to collect the responses sent from student handsets | |
| 3. software on the computer which displays the question and tabulates student responses, displaying a histogram of the responses when voting has finished. |
This guide covers popular audience response systems currently in use at Penn:
- TurningPoint, and
- Poll Everywhere.
There are also a number of other options available, including:
Web Resources
- Seven Things You Should Know About Clickersfrom Educause
- An Overview of Audience Response SystemThese slides demonstrate different tools of audience response systems, like TurningPoint, Poll Everywhere, Top Hat Monocle and LectureTools. Presented by Elizabeth Scheyder, SAS Computing.
- Best Practices and Pedagogical Benefits of Using Clickers in the Classroom webinarClick on Playback to watch this recorded webinar session.
Voices from Researchers and Teachers
- Clicking Toward A Better EducationAn article from the Daily Pennsylvanian
- In Class, the Audience Weighs inAn article from the New York Times
- Proving the Benefits of Peer InstructionResearch study
- Clickers for Teaching CalculusAn article from the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
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Get Clickers @ WIC
The Weigle Information Commons has a set of 97 clickers available for borrowing in the Vitale Digital Media Lab, funded in part by the generosity of GAPSA.
For more details and to reserve clickers, visit our Equipment Lending page.