Via a colleague, I just heard of a clicker seminar being held in June by the Canadian Council of University Biology Chairs:
The purpose of this session is to introduce attendees to different ways that colleagues have and are adopting clickers to teaching science in general and biology in particular. One goal is to give people who have worked with clickers a chance to trade ideas, experiences and best practises (not to mention avoiding the worst ones). A second goal is to give those who are thinking of taking this approach to teaching some indications of how one might proceed. A third goal is to establish a network of people using clickers in teaching biology to provide a forum for exchanging ideas.
For more info, please see Clickers in Teaching Biology, June 4th 2007
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Yes yes, it has been several weeks since my last post. What about that inspired post about blogging more regularly? Well, term transition has begun so my attention is definitely elsewhere. Unfortunately this post will be nothing substantial either, but the folks at Educause (and particularly ELI) have been pumping out some amazing content over the last four months that will more than fill my void 
So while I’m working away I have the above filling my ears, interspersed with the occasional track from the Live Music Archive. I may not have the time to attend all of these concerts or conferences, but I’m forever in debt to those who have made the content available so that I can ‘attend’ when time allows. Thank-you.
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Posted by: jeff in Clickers
Ok, gotta make this one quick. Need sleep.
I attended a demo today and had a chance to see Turning Point in action. I have some exposure to eInstruction, Qwizdom, and some of the other audience/classroom performance systems - but there were so many clever little features in Turning Point that had me ooohing and aaahing. First and foremost, Turning Point isn’t an application, rather, it’s a Powerpoint extension/module/add-on. Straight out of the box, they have a large number of instructors who will be able to more easily adopt clickers because of their prior experience with Powerpoint - no new program to learn. Just a few new tricks inside an old favourite. Unfortunately there is no cross-platform support, PC only. Mind you, clever features don’t make a good tool if only a small percentage of instructors are aware or in need of such features. The clickers themselves were the smallest I’ve seen to date, although I’m sure there are likely smaller and smaller versions already in development or already out there.
What the heck is a clicker? ELI has a great PDF: 7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
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