An Active Learning Platform
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An Active Learning Platform
• Goal• Learn how to use LectureTools as an instructor (with laptops and tablets) • Learn how to use LectureTools as a student with laptops, cell phones, and or iPads.
• What do you need?• Must use Safari, Google Chrome 10.0+, FireFox 4+, or IE 9+
• Agenda• Create a course, setup a lecture, add polls and interactive elements• Learn how to invite students to connect to your course• Practice using LectureTools to present and display activities with laptops and tablets (iPads)• View LectureTools analytics• Use LectureTools as student in demo course
Today’s Goal and Agenda
• Go to my.lecturetools.com
• Sign in with existing instructor account or create a new account and course
LectureTools Login
• Add Course Details
• Copy, paste and send invite link to students
Create a Course and Invite Students
• Setup a lecture
Setup a Lecture and Import Slides
• Import Slides• Insert Title
• Click in between a slide
• Select “insert multiple choice”
Insert Activities
• Add Follow Up Question to identify misconception
• Select multiple correct answers and/or upload an image
• Define correct answers for image quizzes
The Most Pedagogically Sound Questions
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• Add videos from YouTube or you computer
More Question Types and Videos
• Select Correct Answers for Images
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• Publish Lectures for students to see.
Publish Lectures for Students
• Click ‘launch presentation’
Present with an iPad or any other tablet
+ Splashtop Remote Desktop
• Display activities to open polling
• Click results to see responses
• Click answer to show answers
• Click polling to close
Transition slides and poll students.
Question Types
Equations feature added
Enter an equation inside quotes: from http://www.onemathematicalcat.org/MathJaxDocumentation/TeXSyntax.htm
Real-time Feedback: The Dashboard• Open dashboard
during or after lecture
• Address questions during or at the end of class• Answered questions
appear anonymously to all students
• Monitor ‘confusion’
• Receive report after class
Receive Personalized Reports After Class
• Personal reports sent to you via email one hour after class
• View and answer unanswered questions
• View most confusing slides
• View polls and attendance
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Student View
Student View: Questions
Student Names
Track Student Participation: Assess
Case Study: Course Evaluations
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 93.00
3.50
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4.50
5.00W10-F10 F11
“Overall the instructor was an excellent teacher.”
+.5
Scores above 4.5: • 2/9 in 2010 • 7/9 in 2011
The Impact of LectureTools
Engagement Learning Attentiveness0
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LectureTools Control
12%
Source: Use of Laptops in the Classroom: Research and Best Practices, University of Michigan CRLT, 2010
13%21%
• Supports all browsers– IE 9+, Firefox 4+, Chrome,
& Safari– No downloads
• Instant product updates• Accessible anywhere,
anytime.
Online, Nothing to install
• Phone support 9-5 EST• Email support 24/7• Webinars, blogs, and best
practices• One-on-one trainings,
anytime.
Full Service Provider