Yesterday, Turning Technologies made available to the public a new version of it's audience response system software, TurningPoint.
The most significant enhancements included in the TurningPoint 4.2.3.231 are:
Office 2010 64-bit support
Report creation issue with Office 2003 were resolved
Countdown timer placement
Full release notes are available here.
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Author: Scott Thomas
TurningPoint 4.2.3 Now Available For Download
It's official. Turning Technologies has just released TurningPoint 4.2.3 to the public. According to their site, new enhancements include:
Added support for Microsoft Office 2010
Standards are now available through a web service
Added a Difficulty and Discrimination Index Report
Results by Question Report now includes information from the Priority Ranking slides
New Export...
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Use A Pedagogical Approach To Get Better Results From An Audience Response System
With the advances in ARS technology and relative ease of use it is becoming very simple to just pose questions to your audience without giving much thought to why the question is being asked and if it is the best use of your voting time.
The excerpt below is a a very general audience response system learning strategy that uses a simplified version of Laurillard's model. The ...
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Safe Frequencies for Audience Response System Keypads
Turning Technologies ResponseCards RF and ResponseCards RF LCD are very robust systems can be used without fear of interference from devices that emit radio frequency interference and commercial wireless technologies, including wifi (WLAN 802.11 b,g and g), even though the technologies exist within the 2.4 GHz band. If you really want to play it safe, there are several channels...
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Turning Technologies ResponseCard RF Review
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This review covers the ResponseCard RF (RCRF-01). The ResponseCard RF measures a tiny 3.3" L x 2.1" W x 0.3" H and weighs approximately 1 oz. with it's batteries installed. It is roughly the size of a credit card. The ResponseCard RF can only be used with TurningPoint, the audience response system written by Turning Technologies.
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Using TurningPoint to Collect Demographic Information
One of the most powerful features of TurningPoint is its ability to quickly gather demographic data from your voting audience. Any question can be set as demographic either before polling data is collected or after the meeting has ended. Of course you’ll want to choose questions that will return meaningful information. Questions that determine gender, age, geographic region, co...
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Avoid Audience Response System Interference By Changing The Channel
Now that audience response systems, or ARS, are becoming more commonplace, especially in meeting environments, be sure to change the default channel so as to avoid interference from other audience response systems. With TurningPoint and ResponseCards, it's very easy to do.
Changing the channel in TurningPoint
Plug your USB receiver in
Launch TurningPoint
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TurningPoint Audience Response Software New Version To Be Released Soon
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Audience Response System Review Series
In an effort to keep you up-to-date and informed about the latest and greatest that the audience response industry has to offer. I'll be posting audience response system reviews, keypad hardware performance reports and my take on the performance / flexibility / usability of the different audience response software out there.
The first review will be of ResponseCard RF (RCR...
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How To Format Your Audience Response Questions To Look Great
Make your audience response questions visually appealing by matching them to your slide template. If you use TurningPoint, there isn’t much that you can’t customize on your question slides because the objects that it places on your slides are in fact PowerPoint objects. Follow these simple steps and your questions will look better in no time. I can't promise that you'll be crea...
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