Turning TechnologiesProven Methods for Success

SRS and ROI

Save a Tree ...Ride a Response System!

SRS offers educators a paperless grading system!

TurningPoint + Study Island = Achievement

Google and TurningPoint

Google for PowerPoint Presentations and have instant content!

Have the students vote on places to go in Google Earth!

Anonymity

Shy students need attention too!

SRS allows for ALL students to answer ALL

questions ALL the time.

Data Driven Decisions

Microsoft Equation Editor

Download the free equation editor from Microsoft and math/science teachers can add

difficult to type symbols to their presentations. Offered in Word and

PowerPoint.

"I VOTED"

Conduct Mock elections, voting off the island or Poll the Audience in "Who Wants to be a Millionaire"! Students can not actually be

voted off the classroom.

Online Games

Use TurningPoint Anywhere to float over games Fox's "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader"

Funtrivia.com Involve the entire class in the game.

Engage them or Enrage them!

Keep your students tuned into learning and help stop the sale of these t-shirts!

Assessment FOR Learning

Pre-Post Assessment

Peer Instruction Differentiated

Instruction

A Picture is worth a 1000 words

Include both pictures and words as answer choices which encourages pre-readers and

ESOL students to become Readers and English students.

OrUse our image slide feature to quiz students on

images from a science experiment with no text!

Reduce Test Anxiety

Frequent use of SRS can reduce test anxiety!

ACLB: All Children Left Behind

By 2014 when NCLB requires all

schools must meet AYP, up to 99% will not be meeting AYP.

SRS can increase achievement through immediate feedback and data analysis

RTI & SRS..Response to Intervention

Test Drive it first!

Track the success of programs, products, initiatives etc. using clickers to gather data on

the control and test group!

Re-Invent the Wheel

But then share it...set up a shared network folder and share your TurningPoint interactive

presentations.

Share your Toy

Allow students to create interactive presentations to present a book report,

science project, or teach a concept.

Check IDs

Manage your kits Device IDs by adding a jump drive with an excel spreadsheet that includes

a list of the Device IDs.

Turn up the Heat

Assess the LoTi (Level of Technology Integration) level of your entire staff at once.

Clicker Management

Use Velcro to keep the clickers on the student desks. Create a seating chart and Velcro the

clicker according to the chart.

Motivation

Student Response Systems can help motivate students

Satisfaction Surveys

Involve parents and community groups by conducting satisfaction surveys.

Clickers as Bloodhounds

By adding the NCLB subcategories as groups in your participant lists teachers can track the

achievement levels of these groups.

Story Starters

Allow the students to choose verbs and nouns to create a sentence. Create a story from the

sentence.

Whole School Achievement