Resources to accompany
Effective Teaching with "Clickers"
a Teaching and Learning Center Workshop
by Ron Cronovich

Clicker vendors

• If you want to try clickers, the publisher of the textbook you use probably offers one or two systems and can bundle clickers with new, shrink-wrapped textbooks for an additional charge.  I have listed the clicker systems that I know of at this time, and the textbook publisher(s) they partner with.  (If you do not see your publisher on the list, contact your sales rep.)  In some cases, the link will take you to a page where the publisher lists two or three systems that are available.  At least one of these systems, iClicker, is available independent of any publisher, in case you don't like the particular system offered by your textbook publisher. 
• Disclaimer:  This list is incomplete.  I have not tested or reviewed most of these systems.  The inclusion or exclusion of a particular system from this list does not imply endorsement or rejection.    
• iClicker (Prentice Hall, Worth/Holzbrink, Wiley, possibly others, and available independently of any publisher)
• Turning Technologies (McGraw-Hill, Thomson Learning & Thomson/South-Western)
• Interwrite Learning PRS (Prentice Hall)
• PRS (Pearson, Addison-Wesley)
• H-ITT (Pearson, Addison-Wesley)
• CPS (McGraw-Hill)
• CRS (Houghton Mifflin)
• CRS (Wiley)
• If you know of another system that should be on this list, please email me the info and I'll add it!  Thanks!

Resources and information about clickers

• U Wisconsin reports on the results of a major experiment with clickers
  • U Wisconsin tips & resources for faculty using clickers
• EDUCAUSE clicker resources page
• from Iowa State University: 
  • Tips for teaching with clickers from ISU faculty
  • ISU has compiled some useful links for teaching with clickers
• Clickers in the Classroom, a 96-page book by Douglas Duncan on teaching with clickers (much of the info in this book is VERY basic, but some is quite helpful)

Peer Instruction

• Peer Instruction:  A User's Manual (paperback), by Eric Mazur - good, though heavily weighted toward physics despite the usefulness of this method in any discipline
• Peer Instruction:  Ten Years of Experience and Results,  by Crouch & Mazur, American Journal of Physics September 2001
• Tomorrow's Professor Msg. 149 - Eric Mazur describes Peer Instruction in a brief (500-word) essay
  • a follow-up to the above
• Peer Instruction:  Results from a Range of Classrooms, by Adam P. Fagen, Catherine H. Crouch and Eric Mazur, Phys. Teach., 40, 206-209 (2002) 

Polls

• PollingReport.com
• The Gallup Organization
• CBS News Polls
• Fox News Polls
• Las Vegas Review-Journal Polls
• Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research hyperlinked list of polls
• L.A. Times Polls

Misc

• "Classroom Clickers Make the Grade" (article in Wired Magazine)
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My contact info

• website:  www.roncron.com
• email address:  roncron@unlv.nevada.edu
• office:  BEH 513
• phone:   895-3015
• UNLV campus mailstop:  6005

If you know of a link I should add to this page, please email me.