Audience Response Systems Help Meetings Bring Content Into Focus

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Reduced budgets, an economy in recession and exaggerated travel costs are just several of the everyday problems that meeting planners currently face. A minimized emphasis on world-class dining or renowned entertainment is allowing for the real focus of such gatherings to emerge. To attendees who are cutting back on corporate travel, the message and content of your event is sign...
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Audio Stingers For ARS Countdown Timers

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I’ve been doing a little research on the fair use of copyrighted music at live events today. It is pretty clear that if you are going to be playing music, you need to have permission and/or licensing from the copyright holders. There seems to be a special provision in the copyright law for music used not only used for educational purposes, but within an educational setting. (...
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TurningPoint 4.2.3 64-Bit Released

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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. Downlo...
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TurningPoint 4.2.3 Now Available For Download

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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

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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

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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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Check our special offers on ResponseCards 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

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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

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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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