My latest and greatest use of the clickers was pushing out my lab procedures when my students did a lab on the Law of Conservation of Matter called "Reaction in a Baggie". I used a self-paced exam on Active Inspire to get it going. There was no projector set up, so the students did not see anything except what was on their clickers. Here's how it went.
Positives:
- students were more focused on lab than in the past
- I was able to see which step each group was on without being over their shoulders
- more students were engaged in the lab than usual
- the students themselves enjoyed using the clickers
- more groups cleaned up properly than usual
Negatives:
- they are unable to read through all of the procedures before the lab, which is usually advantageous, because then they understand all of the procedures before beginning
- there was a learning curve, where I had to show some of them after the fact, how to scroll down to look at the rest of the procedure
- I still am playing around with the formatting of the data I'm receiving to make sense of it as I'm using it
* I forgot to take a picture this time, but there was just a clicker sitting at each lab station for the students to use, so there was one per pair.
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