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Jay Killion, Assistant Director of Academic Computing at University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), shared with us the PowerPoint that he and Ted Turgeon, Instructional Designer at UNO, developed for their presentation at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference this spring.

See the great 'Success+tament' shared in this presentation!

We are sailing with the whiteboards and CPS! Our 4-6 parent night featured the Challenge Board with questions across the curriculum. The parents loved it and asked how often we were able to use it! I see the possibility of adding more boards and clickers to the building! Hooray!

--Sherry Bergen, Hickory Hill Elementary, Papillion, NE

In my math classroom, CPS is a great way to launch a discussion about different approaches to solve a math problem. We often record these discussions as mathcasts; you'll find one example here: Mathcast

--Patty O'Flynn, Math Teacher, Woodland, WA

I had a difficult student come into class one day after we had started using the clickers and ask if we got to play the game that day. I reply "You mean take our test using the clickers?" Yeah! That one! ...Well, yes you can take your test today.

--Wade, Teacher, Osawatomie, KS

...EVERY teacher I have taught how to use the RF clickers now wants to use them and are stunned by their effectiveness (that's why there is a waiting line now!). (A colleague) came back to me on Thursday after I set him up and after one use said, "Gary, that was very humbling!. I found out that the kids did not know as much as I thought and I now know where to concentrate my reteaching." Being a good professional, he did just that and saw great results. For a teacher that has about as many years of experience as I do, I thought that was a very telling experience. I am afraid to show them to anyone else or I will never get them back!

I am not overstating anything when I say these are the most powerful pedagogical tool I have seen in 40 years of teaching. NO kid can remain passive. They must participate (anonymously to their peers but not to me) and I should take a picture of the kids' faces when we are going over the questions and they are participating and competing! It is not uncommon for me to get a 60% cumulative class score the first time around on new/difficult concepts and then 97% - 100% the second time with only 5 seconds to respond. Not only that, but I can pause after every question and reteach the misconception (or missed concept) the kids have right on the spot. Asking, "Are there any questions?" to passive teenagers isn't cutting it anymore!

I gave a quiz yesterday after a clicker review and the average paper and pencil score was 94%+ (some of the kids are still uneasy about quizzes with the clickers) and would have been better if Mr. Schlapfer hadn't asked one ambiguous question that the kids and the clickers identified for him!

Another unintended positive outcome occurs when I reveal the top 10 scorers during the review "game" and it turns out to be peers the kids never thought of as being outstanding or smart. They stand out like the sports stars by virtue of their performances and leave the room wearing their success as a badge of honor. One of those is a sped kid who has reading problems but once he sees a word in a question can see the associated answer in a heartbeat and I thought he was going to burst when he walked out of the room with the highest score that day. I also have a class full of athletes and a 4' 8" girl beats them very often even as they climb over the table to respond and she sets there calmly pushing the correct button.

I have a clicker contest in the works where we are going to make up High 5 teams with brackets and have a real academic contest with the entire class watching. How cool is that going to be?

I can't emphasize enough that I think these units should be given first priority in technology expenditures. I have never seen such an effective strategy to individualize learning and focus instruction. I would be more than happy to address any group to promote their use in any EPS classroom.

--Gary Schlapfer, Science Teacher, Elkhorn, NE

Read an article originally printed in The Ulysses News describing the use of new technologies, including CPS, by 4th-grade teacher Margie McDaniel in Ulysses, Kansas. Margie has been one of our enthusiastic CPS customers for several years.

Read an article by Southern Valley High School Senior Kassie Moore detailing clicker use in Southern Valley Schools in Oxford, Nebraska.

A great CPS story from 4th grade teacher, Dean Boyd, describing how his students beg to use the "remote thingies!"

Read this blog post of another teacher's take on 2nd grade teacher Melissa Ross's use of CPS in her classroom at Chets Creek Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida.

This blog post details the use of clickers in a law classroom at UCLS Law School. This is an interesting account, as it describes the use of data slicing, which brought about some interesting discussion in this case.

University of Delaware Instructors and students sing the praises of clicker use at their university.

Purdue faculty talk about eInstruction.

Professor Dee Silverthorn talks about using CPS in her classes at the University of Texas in Austin.

Instructor testimonial from Beth Swart, nursing professor from Ryerson School of Nursing

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