How-to guides and training materials

For new users:

 

• IS eLearning website

 

For experienced users:

 

• How to get started with Cricket and Response (standalone)
• How to get started with Cricket and Response ( PowerPoint users)
• Training manual Cricket and Response ( PowerPoint users)
• Interwrite's Response User Guide (very comprehensive)
  

 

For Students

 

• Interwrite Cricket User Guide

 

Training sessions

The CSE is offering training session on the RF clicker technology from Mid August to Mid September 2008 view dates here. If you would like to schedule an individual meeting to discuss how you are using clickers in your lecture and suggestions for improvement, please contact us directly (jon.jack@ed.ac.uk).

 

Software download

You can download/retrieve the software from various locations:

 

• From the IS elearning website
• From the Interwrite website http://www.interwritelearning.com/support/software.php (need to register with the site)
• email jon.jack@ed.ac.uk

 

Instructions on how to install hardware and software

 

Literature and Research

From or about the University of Edinburgh’ use of Clickers

 

• EVS website (IS eLearning) - WEB
• Clickers in the CSE, edinburgh bits June 2008 – PDF - HTML
• CSE Clicker staff survey 2007/2008 - PDF
• Electronic Voting in the School of Physics - WEB
• Alistair Bruce (Physics):  Pedagogical aspects of PRS - PDF
• Using clickers - Do’s and Don’ts handout by staff in Biological Sciences & Physics - PDF
• Scotsman Article on clickers at the University of Edinburgh (12 02 08) - WEB
• Independent Article on clickers (14 02 08) - WEB

 

Other resources 

 

• A useful and accessible overview of the research in this area accompanied by practical hints and tips: Caldwell, J.E. (2007). Clickers in the large classroom: Current research and best-practice tips. Life Sciences Education, 6(1), 9-20. - PDF

• An overview of  ten years of research and development with clickers at Harvard. Offers some good ideas about how to fit clickers into wider pedagogic approaches: Crouch, C. & Mazur, E. (2001). Peer instruction: ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics, 69(9), 970-977. - PDF

• An accessible introduction to the use of clickers: Draper, S. W. & Brown, M. I. (2004). Increasing interactivity in lectures using an electronic voting system. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20, 81-94. - PDF

  Steve Drapers PRS page - UK PRS guru from Glasgow University, lots of info and links related to PRS stuff - WEB
• A more theoretical evaluation of two different methods for using clickers in large classes: Nicol, D. & Boyle, J. T. (2003). Peer instruction versus class-wide discussion in large classes: A comparison of two interaction methods in the wired classroom. Studies in Higher Education 28(4), 457-473 - PDF
• A review which focuses on how thinking about clicker use has developed over time: Simpson, V. and Oliver, M. (2007). Electronic voting systems for lectures then and now: A comparison of research and practice. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 23(2), 187-208 - WEB
• Extensive EVS bibliography collected by the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, including discipline-specific literature – WEB

 

Videos

 

• JISC Video on the use of clickers at the University of Strathclyde - WMF
• Eric Mazur: From questions to concepts: interactive teaching in Physics - WMF

 

Example questions and presentations

 

Chemistry ConcepTests - WEB