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Zapper Special Interest Group

Zapper Special Interest Group. 1 st Meeting Monday 15 th February 2010. Outline Plan. Purpose of the group Introductions Decisions about the group Items of interest from Shelley & Adam Date & content of next meeting. Purpose of the Group. To share good practice in the use of Zappers

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Zapper Special Interest Group

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  1. Zapper Special Interest Group 1st Meeting Monday 15th February 2010

  2. Outline Plan • Purpose of the group • Introductions • Decisions about the group • Items of interest from Shelley & Adam • Date & content of next meeting

  3. Purpose of the Group • To share good practice in the use of Zappers • Networking for Zapper users • Other – to be agreed

  4. Introductions • Who you are • Where you are from (school/professional service) • Brief description of experience in using zappers

  5. Decisions about the Group • Any other purposes for the group? • How often to meet? Date of next meeting • What to do at each meeting? • Any minutes/reports from meetings? • What to put on LATEU website for ZSIG? (example http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ars/ )

  6. Suggested Meeting Items • Any follow up from last meeting • Case presentation – 1 person • Other item of interest – 1 paper/conference/website • News or updates from the group • Agree/confirm date & speaker for the next meeting.

  7. Items of Interest from Shelley • ESTICT: http://estict.ning.com/Engaging Students Through In-class Technology • Discussion list for enhancing learning via electronic voting systems ELECTRONIC-VOTING-SYSTEMS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK • e.g. Research questionnaires for evaluating Zappers

  8. ESTICT • Steve Draper: Ways to improve learning with EVS: some deep procedures for teachers, and what software features matter for these.http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/%7Esteve/talks/evs2.html • Steve Draper website http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ilig/

  9. Draper Nov 2009 • “its not the technology, stupid, it’s the learning design that most affects learning outcomes” • Types of question/Learner activity • Teacher Response • “newcomers think you use EVS to get ‘student engagement’. But experienced users see the chief benefit as feedback to the presenter on that audience. Why? Because that lets the do things differently depending on the audience”

  10. Coping with increasing use • RF system – 200m range • All currently set to channel 41 • The Receiver stores the channel number • set using Tools – Settings • Settings tab – Response Device • Handsets must match the receiver • e.g. press GO – 4 – 5 – GO

  11. Remote Polling • Health Sciences video-conference lectures • Basingstoke & Isle of Wight • Include remote students in zapper polls • RemotePoll and ResponseWare • RemotePoll runs on remote PC • ResponseWare provides the internet link • ResponseWare also enables online voting

  12. Next Meeting… • Date • Content

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