Class-room participation – how was it initiated?

Class-room participation – how was it initiated?

KeePad and Zing were main technologies used to provide interaction for remote users. How well was it received by students? How did these technologies contributed to class room participation? Here are two examples

KeePad

An interactive component was created using PowerPoint and KeePad. This presentation included a few multiple choice questions. An example of screen shot is shown here. Initially only the question and multiple answers will appear on the screen.

Each student is encouraged to respond using “clicker”. Their responses are portrayed as bar graph shown on the right hand side. It is evident that students have varying level of understanding. Teacher uses this opportunity to get the class room discussion going. This enhances learning process and student become active participants.

Zing feedback

In this case, an interactive component was created using data capturing software and normal Keyboard. This presentation included a few multiple choice questions. Students respond to it by typing their response in normal way. Zing collects responses of all students and provide a combined out to the teacher in a table format.

A sample of response is shown in table format. In this case, question presented appears at the top. First column is student’s seat number. This ensures that student remain anonymous. Zing accepts response in the form of typed text. Hence student is able to respond freely and not restricted (as in multiple choice question). A teacher can then take appropriate action to ensure learning has occurred.

Question No: 2	Describe the difference between Temperature and Heat? (Only seat numbers are stated here to ensure anonymity)
Seat No:	Zing keyboard No:	Students’ Comments
1.	9	about 7
2.	11	transfer of energy,
3.	5	temperature = the average kinetic energy of molecules or atoms in a substance
4.	6	heat is the transfer of energy
5.	3	Temperature is the average kinetic energy. Heat is the transference of the energy.
6.	4	temperature is the average kinetic energy of a body i.e. how hot something is
7.	8	temp is the average kinetic energy .heat is the transference of the energy
8.	5	heat = the energy transferred into or out of a substance to change its temperature
9.	10	Temperature is kinetic energy Heat is the transfer of the energy
10.	6	temperature is
11.	4	heat is the amount of heat in a body e.g.: the volume of heat