Hi everyone - if you're interested in polling software, David Goldberg (Physics) has organized a demonstration of Learning Catalytics, a polling/audience response system that is part of Pearson's MyLab with eText. Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Time: Free-hour (12:15-1:30PM) Location: Science Building, B326 Lunch will be provided by Pearson Education. RSVP: http://goo.gl/forms/KU3TV7uiIg Question? Feel free to contact David Goldberg david.goldberg@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:david.goldberg@qc.cuny.edu> Best, Michelle Michelle C. Fraboni I Director I Queens College Center for Teaching & Learning From: Socrates <socrates-bounces@lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates-bounces@lists.qc.cuny.edu>> on behalf of Socarates <socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu>> Reply-To: David Goldberg <David.Goldberg@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:David.Goldberg@qc.cuny.edu>> Date: Friday, December 4, 2015 at 10:38 AM To: Socarates <socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu<mailto:socrates@lists.qc.cuny.edu>> Subject: [Socrates] Learning Catalytics Presentation, Wednesday, December 9 Learning Catalytics, a "bring your own device" student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence system The presentation will be given by representatives of Pearson Education: Learning Catalytics has grown out of twenty years of cutting-edge research, innovation, and implementation of interactive teaching and peer instruction spearheaded by Eric Mazur at Harvard University. With Learning Catalytics you can: * Use open-ended questions to get into the minds of students to understand what they do or don't know and adjust lectures accordingly. * Use a wide variety of question types to sketch a graph, draw a vector, annotate a map or art, highlight a passage, compose text, compute a numeric or algebraic answer, and more. * Access rich analytics to understand student performance. * Add your own questions to make Learning Catalytics fit your course exactly. * Manage student interactions with intelligent grouping and timing. * Assess and improve students' critical-thinking skills. Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 Time: Free-hour (12:15-1:30PM) Location: Science Building, B326 Lunch will be provided by Pearson Education. RSVP: http://goo.gl/forms/KU3TV7uiIg Question? Feel free to contact David Goldberg david.goldberg@qc.cuny.edu<mailto:david.goldberg@qc.cuny.edu> Join us to learn more about this exciting technology, available in many Pearson MyLab and Mastering products.