Colleges and Universities implement these devices to reduce paperwork and speed the interactivity of class. The days of school marms calling on Jane and Johnny to answer simple questions over reading, etcl, are gone, ESPECIALLY in large lecture halls.
This semester is the first time I've used a "clicker" and it took the prof 3 weeks to get the receivers installed for intra-deptartmental red-tape. My school, Informatics, doesn't have enough room, and has to hold lectures in places like the Chem building, but it took forever for the Chem dept. to approve our installation of receievers... but I digress.
The point of this guy's request for help wasn't so you crotchety jerks could whine about how you had to "raise your hand and actually answer the question" or had to be "social." It's not about social skills, our lectures are divided into as many as 4-5 small labs for students to discuss the material outside of lecture.
Personally, I tried to find an open source "clicker" software to load into my Clie (which has an IR port) and wasn't able to find anything useful. I applaud this student's effort, and will be contacting him in hopes that I can help in some way.
You want to see a sense of humor for first-posters, you should check the forums at redvsblue.com. Most first-posters get deleted by the m0ds.
Anyway- BBC gets enough government monies that the populace considers them to be an extension of the gov't. What their legal status in re: to the gov't, I don't know. Someone should go look that up...
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Colleges and Universities implement these devices to reduce paperwork and speed the interactivity of class. The days of school marms calling on Jane and Johnny to answer simple questions over reading, etcl, are gone, ESPECIALLY in large lecture halls. This semester is the first time I've used a "clicker" and it took the prof 3 weeks to get the receivers installed for intra-deptartmental red-tape. My school, Informatics, doesn't have enough room, and has to hold lectures in places like the Chem building, but it took forever for the Chem dept. to approve our installation of receievers... but I digress. The point of this guy's request for help wasn't so you crotchety jerks could whine about how you had to "raise your hand and actually answer the question" or had to be "social." It's not about social skills, our lectures are divided into as many as 4-5 small labs for students to discuss the material outside of lecture. Personally, I tried to find an open source "clicker" software to load into my Clie (which has an IR port) and wasn't able to find anything useful. I applaud this student's effort, and will be contacting him in hopes that I can help in some way.
You want to see a sense of humor for first-posters, you should check the forums at redvsblue.com. Most first-posters get deleted by the m0ds.
Anyway- BBC gets enough government monies that the populace considers them to be an extension of the gov't. What their legal status in re: to the gov't, I don't know. Someone should go look that up...
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