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Engaging Technologies Blog - What's New?Our Engaging Technologies Blog will keep you up to date on with what's new at Engaging Technologies - new pricing updates, site pages, teaching ideas, contests, articles, links, and more! To have new updates delivered to the RSS feeder of your choice or directly to your inbox, subscribe to our RSS feed. Our blog has moved!We've moved our blog to a more full-featured blog so that we can give you more up-to-date links and updates! You can subscribe to our new feed by visiting our new blog and clicking on the "Subscribe in reader" link in the top left corner! Click for more info NEW clicker articles posted!We've posted some great new news articles about clickers on our Clickers in the News page! Check them out! Permalink -- click for full blog post Lower prices on CPS clickers!Now you can get more bang for your buck and get CPS clickers in more classrooms! Don't pass up these great prices on CPS IR and CPS RF clickers! Permalink -- click for full blog post Enlighten, January 2009, is now online!The January 2009 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available online. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info Enlighten, December 2008, is now online!The December 2008 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available online. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info Enlighten, November 2008, is now online!The November 2008 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available on line. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info New Interactive Thanksgiving ActivitiesWe've posted some great new interactive Thanksgiving activities that would be fun to use with your clickers, interactive tablet, or whiteboard on our seasonal activities page. I love the virtual field trip to Plymouth where the kids are the historians, and who wouldn't have fun with a Turkey Day Mad-Lib? Enjoy! Permalink -- click for full blog post Upgrade to Workspace 7.7 Now AvailableThe latest upgrade of Workspace is now available for download from eInstruction. If you'd like more information about what's included in this upgrade, check out our October newsletter. Click the link below to download the latest Workspace upgrade... Click for more info Enlighten, October 2008, is now online!The October 2008 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available on line. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info Win an eInstruction Makeover!Collaborate with your class to produce a music video demonstrating how technology can and is being used in the classroom and you can win an eI Makeover for your classroom worth over $25,000. Visit www.eimakeover.com to check out the details, so that you are ready for the start of this contest on September 15th! While you're there, you can view last year's winning videos, which are SUPER! The K-5 winner had me a little teary-eyed, the 9-12 winner had me laughing out loud, and the 6-8 winner had me singing along! Click on the link to download a printable flyer to share with your staff or hang in your teachers' lounge! Permalink -- click for full blog post eInstruction Interactive Tablet ComparisonThe judges' decision is still out, so we've outlined the differences between the CPS Chalkboard and the Interwrite School Pad, and we're waiting for you to weigh in with your opinions. Both are a wonderful complement to CPS clickers, so find out how these two interactive tablets from eInstruction stack up to each other in the ring... Permalink -- click for full blog post New Bingo Review Game for ClickersPatricia Malcolm, a teacher at Eastern Wayne High School in Goldsboro, NC, submitted a very creative bingo review game to use with clickers in your classroom. It's a fantastic idea that we haven't even seen before! Check it out on our Clicker Review Game page... Permalink -- click for full blog post Enlighten, September 2008, is now online!The September 2008 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available on line. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info Use Clickers & Donate Rice For HungerI came across this site yesterday, www.freerice.com, which has a great vocabulary game on it. For each answer you get right, 20 grains of rice will be donated through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger. The game gives you one word (which gets more difficult the more questions you answer correctly) and the 4 answer choices are set up like a multiple choice question - a perfect setup to incorporate clickers! Just use the verbal mode and label the answer choices A,B,C and D. You might not even need to label the answer choices, as junior high or high school students could probably remember which letter corresponds with which answer. Your students are expanding their vocabulary and earning rice to end world hunger at the same time. How's that for multi-tasking? You might also find that your students are even motivated to play this activity at home outside of the classroom! This website does come with a warning, however. "WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, and job performance!" Your 200, 500 or 1,000 grains may not seem like much by itself, but consider that in its first five months, FreeRice generated enough rice to feed more than one million people. Click for more info New Activities for Whiteboards and CPS ClickersWe've updated our activities page for whiteboard and clicker activities. Visit and browse new links for CPS databases, whiteboard activities links, and links to various Internet quizzes and interactive activities on a variety of subjects... Permalink -- click for full blog post Enlighten, August 2008, is now online!The August 2008 issue of Enlighten, our monthly newsletter, is now available on line. In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info New Training Resources AddedWe've recently updated our Downloads page, adding lots of new training resources! In addition to the CPS for Mac training modules, you'll now find new training modules for CPS for Windows, CPS for Higher Ed, ExamView, and Workspace. Take advantages of these great resources... Permalink -- click for full blog post Clickers in Action...Check It Out!We've gathered up some great videos of clickers in action, both at the elementary and higher ed levels. Check them out at... Permalink -- click for full blog post New FAQ: How Do I Get A CPS Access Card?School is getting close to starting and the search for used textbooks is on! If you do purchase used textbooks, you might find yourself without the CPS Access Card on your booklist. Find out how to do without it... Permalink -- click for full blog post Enlighten, Summer 2008, is now online!The Summer issue of Enlighten is now available! In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info New FAQ: Other Software to Use With CPS?Have you ever thought that CPS didn't have enough games for your taste and wondered what else you could use with CPS clickers? Look no more! Here's some suggestions for other games to play with clickers - great for reviewing for tests and making learning fun... Permalink -- click for full blog post New FAQ: Do I Have to Have a Whiteboard?We fielded this question a lot at NETA while we were using wireless tablets. Find out how our products - clickers, tablets, and whiteboards - depend or don't on each other... Permalink -- click for full blog post OOPS! Add Broken Bow to the List!Someone alerted us to the fact that Broken Bow Public Schools wasn't on our Nebraska list of CPS users. Thank you! It wasn't intentional; we just missed getting them on the LONG list of users! With new users hopping on board so quickly, we must have missed one in our excitement. Thanks for keeping up honest, Vickie! Be sure and check that your school is on the list. If you see that it isn't, please let us know... Permalink -- click for full blog post NETA 2008 -Great Time, Big WinnersI hope that all of you had as much fun at NETA 2008 as we did! I don't go to shows much, as I am usually stuck in front of my computer screen at home, but I had a great time visiting with many of you. We had great traffic at our booth and some very happy teachers left NETA with great new clicker technology to use in their classroom! Our latest newsletter has all of our winners listed, so I'll let you check that out here... Click for more info Spring Fever Pricing
Enlighten, May 2008, is now online!The May issue of Enlighten, our monthly update, is now available! In this issue:
To receive Enlighten directly in your inbox, subscribe HERE! Click for more info NETA 2008 is finally here!
We're located in the Heartland Room at the Holiday Inn, right across from the Mac booth, and we've got whiteboards, clickers, and tablets for you to come and try out for yourself. Of course, don't forget to register for the classroom setup worth over $7000 while you're there! If you're planning your schedule, you can download the list of clicker presentations and make sure to attend! We'll be there Thursday and Friday, and we hope to see you there! Permalink -- click for full blog post CPS in Ulysses, Kansas classroomThis new article showcases the use of CPS and other new technologies in the 4th grade classroom of Margie McDaniel in Ulysses, Kansas. Margie has been an enthusiastic CPS customer for several years and we appreciate her willingness to share what she's doing in her classroom! Find out how Margie's using CPS in her classroom... Permalink -- click for full blog post Win Big Issue of Enlighten is online!We've posted a special issue of our Enlighten newsletter in our newsletter archives...Win Big! There are now 2 ways to win a free classroom setup worth over $7000 and we'll tell you all about it. I guess if you were incredibly lucky you could actually win both systems for your school! Find out how you can win free technology for your classroom in this special issue of Enlighten... Permalink -- click for full blog post UNO's experience with CPS clickers
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. After a comprehensive "clicker study," UNO standardized on CPS in 2007. This presentation outlines their implementation process, their challenges, and success. Title: A Strategic Approach to Implementing Clickers Abstract: This presentation will outline the process the University of Nebraska at Omaha used to implement a standardized clicker system. The goal was to ensure clickers were employed as an enduring pedagogical tool and not treated as another fad. The challenge was removing the barriers to adoption and creating communities of practice. Permalink -- click for full blog post New FAQ: How to turn clickers on?There's a new question on our Clicker FAQ page. Glean some information or add your comments! Permalink -- click for full blog post New FAQ: Error Message - Cannot update resultsAnother new question on our Clicker FAQ page, and this is something we haven't seen before! We've encouraged Cici to contact tech support and let us know what she finds out. If you've had this same problem, please leave a comment with your solution! Permalink -- click for full blog post NETA Issue of Enlighten is online!We've posted a special issue of our Enlighten newsletter in our newsletter archives...Countdown to NETA 2008! We've outlined all the clicker breakout sessions and workshops that will be available for you to attend at NETA 2008 at the Holiday Inn Central in Omaha, April 24-25th. We've even included a PDF file of clicker presentations that you can print and take with you. Be sure to check it out! Permalink -- click for full blog post Clickers and chalkboards at Southern ValleyThis new article by a Southern Valley Junior/Senior High School senior, Kassie Moore, showcases recent CPS clicker and chalkboard implementation by Southern Valley Schools in Oxford, NE... Permalink -- click for full blog post Our April newsletter is now online!The newest issue of Enlighten, our monthly update, is now available! In this issue:
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We've got special Spring Fever Pricing available on special combinations of Interwrite Boards and Pads that is good through June 30, 2008. Check it out...
Well, the NETA countdown clicker is almost at zero as I type this. Dustin chalked up a late night setting up the booth, but it looks great!
We've added a great new addition to the top of our CPS Success page!
If you follow the clicker news as doggedly as I do, you might have heard of the clicker fiasco at the University of Kansas last week. All 923 students aced the test when the clicker system (ours by the way) used to give the tests crashed, erasing scores for the entire class.
