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"After six years of study, more than 3,000 student surveys, nearly 40 interviews, close to 700 anonymous written responses, and numerous observations of students in classes across four disciplines, Dr. Angel Hoekstra knows a thing or two about how to use clickers in the classroom."

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

"Tips on effectively integrating and using clickers in the classroom Best practices are lessons learned throughout our first year using clickers. The following information was created by input from faculty, faculty development, and support. " from University of Milwaukee

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets. Teachers can pose various questions to students, and once students respond, a report is generated in Excel format that can be used as assessment.

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

Best Practices for Using Clickers to Support Engagement and Learning

Interactive methods of instruction more valuable than subject matter expertise on the part of the instructor. Study shows that clicker use in a highly interactive instructional setting works better than an experienced lecturer.

A great, cost effective Student response system! Free for NSW DEC teachers but also very cheap for non DEC educators! :-) Enjoy!

This is a segment from NPR's HIdden Brain about Dr. Martin Levy's use of a clicker, usually used to train dogs, to train surgical students. It's fascinating. Essentially, the argument is made that clickers work so well because it is a form of feedback that does not use any verbal signals - no praise, no reprimand, no "good job," no "not like that." Praise and criticism distract a learner from mastering the skill being taught, making a learner focus instead on pleasing the teacher. With nonverbal feedback, the learner doesn't focus on the teacher but on the skill being taught

Naiku's Quick Question allows you to get immediate feedback from your students - simply ask a question, and students respond using any web enabled device, such as a smartphone, tablet, netbook, or laptop.

Free site lets teachers conduct a variety of web-based assessments using any type of browser-equipped device. Very useful for formative assessment.

It's about time someone woke to the excess fees that students are expected to pay... especially for this type of thing. If the institution thinks it's a good idea, then the institution should foot the bill.

Just making sure everyone knows about this tool.

Free resource for tracking student thinking (with cell phones, too)

Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology

Free software from Microsoft that allows students with wireless usb mice to respond to multiple choice/true/false assessments via PowerPoint.