I tried using Twitter, SMS, Word Clouds and Audience Response Systems in my last presentation. I suppose the first question must be, why use so many technologies? A previous comment on this blog asked if there was any evidence of people using Twitter

I recently ran a session at the Scottish Economics Society Annual Conference on podcasting – with Bhagesh Sachania from the Economics Network. This session contained extensive use of the electronic voting systems. An approach I adopted was to g

An alternative title would have been using a prs (evs) confidence question to stimulate group discussion :-) I recently ran a workshop on "An Intro to Blackboard" where the participants had to work collaboratively to complete a number of

In a recent session run by myself and a colleague (Hilary) we tried a slightly different approach in the way that we used the PRS system. This took on board a previous comment on this blog, and an observation from a colleague on how he'd seen it used

The following is my checklist for using Turning Point in my small group sessions. The reason for this is that colleagues and I have in the heat of the moment not followed the checklist and we've lost information etc., Before session - when in roo

A common method of evaluating the impact of a staff development session, is to use a survey and filter the results by key responses. This allows you to create subgroups, and assuming you've write appropriate questions then you can identify the impact

I’ve been using the turning point prs system in my 3 staff development workshops. In terms of attendees, this is about 6 people per session. Based on an action-research methodology, I’m reporting back on some observations after a recen

A couple of areas I've been working on with Turning Point PRS system is the use of conditional statements, session reports and writing questions on the fly. The use of conditional questions to influence the next slide is relatively straight forwar

A colleague and I used the turning point PRS system in a workshop. My first impressions are very positive - it worked and it energised the workshop. Traditionally, I would have collected the same information about the attendees, their requirements