I Click with Clickers

Instruction UpdateCastleton State CollegeJune 4, 2010

Charlotte Gerstein

Reference & Instruction Librarian

Castleton State College

Welcome!

Please introduce yourself with your

your name

institutional affiliation

job title

and

something you like to do when you’re not at work

Uses of clickers

Surveying class for demographic information or opinions, or prior knowledge

Have you ever used clickers (or another audience response system) as a student or participant?

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1. Yes

2. No

3. Not sure

Do you have experience using clickers as an instructor or presenter?

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1. A lot of experience

2. Some experience

3. No experience

About these clickers

Turning Technologies

VSC decision, robust product with best customer service

CSC’s Media Services bought the clickers and transponders (receivers), free software is add-on to Powerpoint, we check them out for a given class

$30 per clicker/$99 per receiver

$949 for start-up kit of 25 + receiver

Other models for clicker use

Clickers owned by students and registered with prof.

Can be used to record quiz grades, attendance

Some systems can record text responses

Collecting more demographic info

What portion of your teaching is provided online or at a distance?

1. All

2. More than half

3. Less than half

4. None

5. Other

How long have you worked as an instruction librarian?

1. I don’t

2. 0-5 years

3. 6-10 years

4. 11-15 years

5. Over 15 years

Have you ever taught a for-credit course as a librarian?

1. Yes

2. No

Have you ever made an online tutorial using Camtasia or Captivate or similar software?

1. Yes

2. No

Do you have access to tutorial creation software?

1. Yes

2. No

3. Don’t know

Why use Clickers?

Engage students

Immediate feedback to the instructor

Anonymous input from students so they can participate candidly

Another use of clickers

To generate discussion

Prequestion, share or provide new input, question again

An example: to generate discussion on file sharing/piracy

Does anyone you know download music illegally?

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Yes No Not sure

1. Yes

2. No

3. Not sure

How does s/he justify it?

Would this person steal a CD from store?

Why does s/he think downloading music is different?

Talk to your neighbor

What ethical considerations are there in downloading music for free? (Whom might it hurt?)

What is the purpose of copyright law?

Is copyright law enforced? Does that matter?

Is it okay to download music illegally, if “everyone” is doing it?

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Yes No Not sure

1. Yes

2. No

3. Not sure

Another use of clickers

To assess student knowledge, to know what their needs are

For example: Information Literacy Test Prep sessions here at CSC

Which of these describes a Table of Contents and an Index...

1 2 3

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order

2. Lists chapters or entries in the order they appear in the book

3. Refers you to page numbers within the book

Lamb, S., & Brown, L. M. (2006). Packaging girlhood: Rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes. New York: St. Martin's Press.

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1. journal article

2. book chapter

3. magazine article

4. book

5. government document

What kind of source is this citation citing?

Edwards, Bruce L. “Patches of Godlight: C. S. Lewis as Imaginative Writer." In C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy: Fantasist, Mythmaker, and Poet, 1-11. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

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1. journal article

2. book chapter

3. magazine article

4. book

5. government document

What kind of source is this citation citing?

Another example of clickers for assessing student understanding

The Seven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism by Christine Bombaro, Dickinson Collegehttp://lis.dickinson.edu/Library/FacultyServices/FYSeminars/fysemfiles/7SinsofPlagiarism%20FINAL%202007.ppt

Uses clickers to teach about academic integrity

Described in Practical Pedagogy for Library Instructors (ALA 2008)

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Plagiarism or not?

Gore also delivers his message well. He simplifies the science without oversimplifying.

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Gore’s effective presentation is Gore’s effective presentation is balanced and well designed for the balanced and well designed for the general public. “He simplifies the general public. “He simplifies the science without oversimplifying” science without oversimplifying” (Meyer 2006, 95).(Meyer 2006, 95). Christine Bombaro

Seven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Plagiarism or not?

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1. Plagiarism

2. Not plagiarism

Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Plagiarism or not?

Correct! This student accurately cited the source!

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1. Plagiarism

2. Not plagiarism

Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Information copied from the Internet must be cited.

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1. True

2. False

Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Information copied from the Internet must be cited.

1. True

2. False

DEADLY SIN #2: Copying material from the internet without citing it

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Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Example: Giving Proper Credit

  2002 2003

Enplanements

(thousands)574,859 593,974

Total items 3,775,345 6,114,612

Firearms 927 683

Knives 1,036,697 1,961,849

Box cutters 32,788 20,991

Other cutting instruments

1,846,207 2,973,413

Clubs 11,131 25,139

Incendiaries 79,341 494,123

Other 768,254 638,414

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statisticshttp://www.bts.gov

Table 2-16b: Prohibited Items Intercepted at Airport Screening Checkpoints

According to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation’s website, airline passengers in 2003 attempted to bring more than six million illegal weapons of various types onto passenger flights.6 Even though new regulations went into effect after the events of September 11, 2001…

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Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Ironically, by being in the wonkiest context imaginable, he comes across as passionate, sincere, and likable.

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Plagiarism or not?Plagiarism or not?

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Gore’s presentation on a stage before an academic audience is the wonkiest context imaginable.

Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Plagiarism or not?

DEADLY SIN #3: Failure to cite even a few words of borrowed language

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1. Plagiarism

2. Not plagiarism

Seven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Christine BombaroSeven Deadly Sins of Plagiarism

Another use of clickers: games and use of teams

Uses a Jeopardy template from Turning Technologies

Created by Lauren Olewnik for First Year Seminar orientation here at CSC

Students are quizzed in teams after instruction on the use of the online catalog and a database

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Library Research Internet SearchingPOT-

POURRI

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Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Searching600 Points

Who is the author of the novel No Country for Old Men?

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Who is the author of the novel No Country for Old Men?

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A. The Cohen Brothers

B. Cormac McCarthy

C. Clarence McCarthy

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Potpourri 600 Points

What is the title of the journal in which the article Getting Drunk and

Hooking Up: An Exploratory Study… appears?

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Getting Drunk and Hooking Up: An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Alcohol Intoxication and Casual Coupling in a University Sample.

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1. Sociological Spectrum

2. Deviant Behavior

3. Teaching Sociology

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Research Tools400 Points

Cosmo, Sports Illustrated, Rutland Herald, New York Times, The Lancet and Nature are examples of this type

of information source.Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

Cosmo, Sports Illustrated, Rutland Herald, New York Times, The Lancet and Nature are examples of this type of information source?

a. b. c.

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a. What are websites

b. What are periodicals

c. What are things that are located in the check-out aisle of the grocery store

Lauren OlewnikCastleton State College

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Bibliography

Available at

http://www.refworks.com.csc-proxy.libraries.vsc.edu/refshare?site=047961198731600000/RWWEB106817896/Clickers