Turning Point technologies (clickers)

TurningPoint is an audience response system that integrates with Microsoft PowerPoint and allows your audience to participate in lectures by using a ResponseCard keypad.

"Engage participants, assess learning, gather data, or enhance presentations with TurningPoint"

Windows

• TurningPoint
• TurningPoint Anywhere

Macintosh

• TurningPoint
• TurningPoint Anywhere

TurningPoint 2008 4.1 for PC (462 Page document in pdf format)

• Office 2003
• Office 2007
• Macintosh

TurningPoint Anywhere for PC (16 Page guide pdf format)

• Windows 2000, XP, and Vista
• Macintosh

• TurningPoint for PC
• TurningPoint AnyWhere for PC
• TurningPoint for Mac
• TurningPoint AnyWhere for Mac
• Web Registration

• Engage students in active learning.
• Encourage students' critical thought processes requiring synthesis of knowledge by providing them a way to answer questions.
• Improve class attendance and student participation.
• Encourage student preparation prior to class (reading of class materials).
• Quickly determine whether homework or reading assignments have been completed before the class.
• Improve instructor understanding of students' comprehension of curriculum.
• Provide students with immediate feedback about the accuracy of their understanding of the curriculum.
• Provide instructor with instant feedback of students' understanding of concepts and content knowledge.
• Provide instructors with the ability to customize instruction based on student responses.
• Use analysis of student responses as the basis for class discussion.
• Traditional large lecture hall teaching methods are not suitable for all students. Meet the needs of diverse learning styles in large general education classes.
• Track student progress toward academic standards.

Eve Dalton
edalton at kent.edu

Ben Hollis
rbhollis at kent.edu

Vicki Gutierrez
vlgutier at kent.edu

Chris Thomas
cthoma13 at kent.edu