Welcome to UOIT's
Teaching and Learning Centre's teachtorial on What is TurningPoint
and ResponseWare. This is one screencast in a series
of teachtorials designed to help you use TurningPoint in your classroom
to poll your students for their responses to your questions.
What is TurningPoint? What is ResponseWare?
TurningPoint is an audience-polling software that works
in conjunction with ResponseWare. Together, they
provide a wireless connection between the instructor's TurningPoint
presentation and the students' web browser based response
device.
You can tranform your PowerPoint presentations
into TurningPoint presentations and watch your students
confirm their understanding of key points, become more engaged in your class,
and see their answers unfold in real time.
How do you get started? To get started using
TurningPoint and ResponseWare, you need to download the TurningPoint
software from turningtechnologies.com
and then register for the
ResponseWare polling software. We have two teachtorials
available to help you with this - Installing TurningPoint and Creating an Account
for ResponseWare. You can find these teachtorials on
UOIT's Teaching and Learning Centre website.
TurningPoint integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint giving you
a comfortable and familiar interface with which to create your presentation.
Once you install TurningPoint,
the program opens up into Microsoft PowerPoint
but it has a new ribbon installed (and this is the TurningPoint ribbon)
showing the icons that allow you to get into the different features of
TurningPoint. You design your presentation
in the same manner you would in Microsoft PowerPoint and when you want
to poll your students, you click on "Insert a Slide"
choose the slide type
and insert the slide.
Let's do a quick demonstration of adding a new slide to
your PowerPoint presentation. I'm going to go up and say "Insert
new slide", choose a Vertical Slide,
and now I'm going to enter the question text
I'm going to enter some answers
You can enter up to 10 answers
and I'm now ready to run my presentation.
Remember this is an overview. If you want any of the details of how to
do these things, look at some of the other tutorials that we have created for you.
So what I'm going to do is Reset
the session data and I'm going
to into Tools and ask for ResponseWare
session ID.
When I do that, I'm presented with a screen to
log in. I'll log in with my credentials. I'm going to
allow guests rather than having to require log in
from my students and I'm going to click on Log In
It will create a session ID for me. This is the session ID that you give
to your students when they are ready to
answer your questions. So, let's do that.
Let's go over to the web.
I'm going to take you to rwpoll.com
which is the ResponseWare side of things
and enter that session ID.
Once I enter the session ID and say "Join Session"
it asks me for a name. This is just
for any name; but you should ask your students to put their first name and their last name.
We'll look at some of the data that you can collect
as a result of this polling information. There is no user data to go
here - that's used for other parts of ResponseWare
that we don't use. Click on Continue and now
the student is ready to wait for the polling to happen.
I'm going to run this presentation and I'm going to
run it so it doesn't take up the full screen.
I'm going to do that by setting up the slide show to be
"Browsed by an individual" and "Advance slides Manually"
and that way you can see them in the screen. So now I'm going to
run this slide show from the beginning
(my first slide is blank). The second slide is the polling
slide. If I go back to see what the student
are looking at now, notice that their web page has changed and now
they can answer this question. Let's say this student actually
does know which month has 28 days and selects February.
If I go back to my presentation,
notice across the top, this ribbon says that I've had one response,
the polling is open and I can wait until I get more responses.
Since I only have one student in this demonstration class,
I think we are done. If I click to advance
my slides, I am now going to see the results of the polling.
There we have it - of the six answers,
this one was 100% answered. Students will
also see this information on their screen showing them that
100% of the respondents answered February.
So this overview shows you how powerful TurningPoint and
ResponseWare can be in the classroom. For detailed information on
using the software, please go through the rest of the teachtorials.
This concludes our teachtorial on What is TurningPoint and What is ResponseWare.
Thank you for watching.